Modifying the UI question... Possible or not?

06-24-2009, 09:51 PM

When a Hero gains a level, its portrait will flash and a little box with a number displaying how many skill points that Hero has will display in the lower right corner. Same for the Skills menu: a little box will also appear in the lower right corner displaying how many skill points the Hero has. Is it possible to make it so that other skills also display a number (that I choose)? Is it also possible to modify the Hero's portrait so that 2 boxes appear on the Hero's portrait (one in the lower right corner and one on top of that?)

06-24-2009, 10:49 PM	#2
bboy-tiger-	I dont get it, can you show me what you mean with pictures ?

06-24-2009, 11:38 PM	#3
PotatoPeeler	He wants to know how to do a diablo / wow type system that allows him to put skill points into things and have the number of skill points already entered / not entered written on the UI somewhere.

06-24-2009, 11:56 PM

Lightstalker

like this:

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also I only need it for one skill, and not a whole bunch.

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06-25-2009, 05:26 AM	#5
Blubb-Tec	no, not without a lot of work which probably includes making your own mod and coding natives for displaying the numbers.

06-25-2009, 05:28 AM	#6
PotatoPeeler	You could always create icons for each unit / ability and have several with numbers on it and have a trigger checking if you put points into it then change the ability to a copy of it but with a different icon, :S Not sure about the hero unless you're goign to replace it. (Unless you can change the Icon with triggers etc.)

06-25-2009, 06:11 AM

Blubb-Tec

Quote:

Originally Posted by PotatoPeeler

You could always create icons for each unit / ability and have several with numbers on it and have a trigger checking if you put points into it then change the ability to a copy of it but with a different icon, :S Not sure about the hero unless you're goign to replace it. (Unless you can change the Icon with triggers etc.)

yeah, i forgot this possibility. this will get a little bit tricky for abilities(for hero abilities you would have to use the engineering upgrade, but i think you dont need those though), but it should work out somehow. however, instead of replacing the hero, you could also simply chaos-transform the hero. i don't know about any (common) bugs/issues with chaos-transform, but I guess it is possible.

06-25-2009, 06:42 AM

akolyt0r

chaos transform on heros is quite buggy ...

Quote:

Originally Posted by PitzerMike's Ability Guide

One problem of Chaos is that it adds the morphed unit's current armor, damage, health and mana bonus received from items, auras and srength, agility, intelligence to the stats of the resulting unit. That means it's not a very good idea to morph heroes using chaos until Blizzard fixes those bugs. Ordinary units can't be affected by items and hero stats, so the only problem are buffs received from auras. Those buffs can easily be removed before the conversion and are automatically added again afterwards so that's not a real issue.

06-25-2009, 09:30 AM	#9
bboy-tiger-	You can do this with scripts, but that will require to have locked camera. And not doing that by altering icon, but by custom textures/icons. But I would suggest you to find another way. There is somewhere sample map. with openable bag menu on screen (like wow has). This uses same system that you need.

06-25-2009, 02:39 PM	#10
Lightstalker	Thanks everyone. I think I'm just gona have to find a different way.