Tides of Blood: Blood Meter

This video explains the functionality and shows off some other cool stuff. Short version: everything you do with your hero in v.O charges up its Blood Meter, which you can then draw on with the Blood Bath ability to go off in a big way.

History Before settling on the current graphic, I went through a few proto-meters: The green bar was a non-starter, even in red form--too bland, and overhead doesn't look that great with the normal life bar there too. The Command Aura-based circle had potential, but rendering limitations with WC3 would have forced me to allow uneven terrain to cover it, which is not the case with the bar I settled on.

One word: sexy

I dunno how it works, all I know is it works amazingly!

billboarded 2D model? That looks awesome.

Can other players see yours?

Ah. Cool idea. What can play DivX files?

Only players who have control of a unit can see its meter.

Anything can play the video (WMP, MP Classic, VLC, etc.). The .divx extension is just a container format. The video itself is .avi or .mpg, I forget which. Well, I guess technically those are containers too, but you know what I mean.

Windows Media Player can't run it, it says it might have unsupported codecs or something.

That just means you don't have the divx codec, which is nuts. Are you a freak like Dusk who just watches nothing online? In any case, you can download the divx codec, or grab something like VLC Media Player. I'd recommend VLC.

I must say this is very cool Litany :)

It's all awesome Cass, but you should make the bar smaller in my opinion. It takes too much room: loosing some height and the spikes (or whatever it's called in English) on the bar would make it more practical.

And isn't 100% extra hp and extra spell damage a bit much? I think it's okay being able to go crazy and kill everybody but you should be still killable and not some ultra tank with double hitpoints.

Another suggestion, as far as I read from the tob forums the Blood ressource becomes obsolete. I don't know if you have any other uses for it but if not you could make some option for players to choose how to display their blood meter: either the graphical one or showing it via the normal GUI with numbers from 0-100.

Just some ideas, you did some awesome stuff here: ToB always brings it to a new level.

Hey, asshole, I resent that. :p

I still think the endurance aura one fits both ToB and WC3 better than the bar, but your points on the terrain overlap are valid nonetheless. It'd also interfere with auras a bit. Damned shame.

The bar is the best one.I love looking those bar filling.
As nook mentioned ,I suggest you to reduce size ,on the video it can cover a whole skeleton.
But i think those small arrow at the boarder end are okay it make it differ from lifebar.

Or give to the bar some transparency (if possible)

Kickass.