I will not write a lot about what I'm doing in that mod, title of that topic wall say all. Simply mod, that makes Battle.Net UI transparent. I did two variations of transparency - 50% and 75%. But I think, 75% sometimes is more nice, especially if you have custom background with Dropship, that flashes, or Char planet, that makes everything red and adds some of HotS atmosphere.
P.S. It will erase all custom backgrounds. But you can make your custom backgrounds transparent too, just do it in any graphical editor, like Photoshop. Fill custom background with 50% or 75% alpha-channel and you will have exact same result.
Say, isn't this illegal? Well, against the terms of use
Any changes to the sc2 files are against the terms of service as far as I know.
On the other hand, I don't think blizzard is very strict when it comes to this. This is only an out-of-game UI modification, nothing that could count as cheating. Yes, Blizzard can ban you for this, but would they? I've seen someone play with a mod that changes unit textures to show more team color, that is a mod more likely to get you a ban than this, and I'm fairly certain that it's a well known mod on TL (All I know about it is from a friend who showed me the stream, so yeah...) so blizz is probably aware of its existence.
Half of sc2 community streamers using Stronger team color mod for 2 years from game release. Are they banned or warned for using that? No. And Stronger Team Colod mod affects game, making it easy to see. But still, it's popular and some time ago Dastin Browder supported that mod too.
A lot players using custom battle.net backgrounds. Are they banned? It's only interface customization!
Blizzard will react only if you will use something to get advatange over other players, so...
P.S. Fixed all links for 75 percentage transparency
I will not write a lot about what I'm doing in that mod, title of that topic wall say all. Simply mod, that makes Battle.Net UI transparent. I did two variations of transparency - 50% and 75%. But I think, 75% sometimes is more nice, especially if you have custom background with Dropship, that flashes, or Char planet, that makes everything red and adds some of HotS atmosphere.
If you want custom animated backgrounds, go here
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=315708
How to install
1) Download Battle.net-patch.MPQ and put it to \StarCraft II\Battle.net\..here... Make backup of original file!
2) Launch game
-----------Transparency 50%
Screenshots
Download
http://www.multiupload.nl/NZ4F0V7YE5
http://www54.zippyshare.com/v/7809901/file.html
http://www.filedropper.com/transparent50percent
-----------Transparency 75%
Screenshots
Download
http://www.multiupload.nl/DOLQVPYRAP
http://www66.zippyshare.com/v/49781292/file.html
http://www.filedropper.com/transparency75percent
P.S. It will erase all custom backgrounds. But you can make your custom backgrounds transparent too, just do it in any graphical editor, like Photoshop. Fill custom background with 50% or 75% alpha-channel and you will have exact same result.
isnt this technically modding?
Im just wandering, dont want my account banned.
Say, isn't this illegal? Well, against the terms of use
Any changes to the sc2 files are against the terms of service as far as I know.
On the other hand, I don't think blizzard is very strict when it comes to this. This is only an out-of-game UI modification, nothing that could count as cheating. Yes, Blizzard can ban you for this, but would they? I've seen someone play with a mod that changes unit textures to show more team color, that is a mod more likely to get you a ban than this, and I'm fairly certain that it's a well known mod on TL (All I know about it is from a friend who showed me the stream, so yeah...) so blizz is probably aware of its existence.
Half of sc2 community streamers using Stronger team color mod for 2 years from game release. Are they banned or warned for using that? No. And Stronger Team Colod mod affects game, making it easy to see. But still, it's popular and some time ago Dastin Browder supported that mod too.
A lot players using custom battle.net backgrounds. Are they banned? It's only interface customization!
Blizzard will react only if you will use something to get advatange over other players, so...
P.S. Fixed all links for 75 percentage transparency
@Existor371: Go
Alright thanks, just wanted to make sure.