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[KDR_11k]

It would look like crap from most angles, less problematic if you used Lua...

[bobthedinosaur]

i want a flat facing up images, because the unit model is going to be an APP-6a unit symbol...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APP-6a
(edit oops wrong APP)
basically no graphics for units, but icon unit game play to allow for a larger scale battle with realistic military units represented by their aap-6 icon.
less lag...

hmm.. just thought of difficulties of a icon platform on a slope, maybe raise the hight on a slope to avoid the platform from clipping the slopes?

[Argh]

@bobthedinosaur (whew, that's long):

[EDIT]

You want to do icon-like stuff, but not use Spring's native icon code? Why? If the symbols always face "north", then if people change their camera angles, they will not be readable, and if they use a non-overhead POV, the symbols will just turn into visual mush.

That said... if you really want to do it, the easiest way would probably be with TexRect, so that it's always aligned with the top of the screen... but meh, that's pretty much exactly the same as icons, only it wouldn't scale with distance, and it sounds like a recipe for visual chaos, to me...

[bobthedinosaur]

whats is textrect?

[KDR_11k]

gl.TexRect, a Lua call.

[Argh]

Doh, sorry for not putting that into context. But yeah, you want to use LUA, if you want it to behave like you're asking. Personally, meh, I'd just use our basic icon system, at least for an initial mockup.

[bobthedinosaur]

how would the texrect lua call work/ look like?

[rattle]

It's gl.TexRect(x, y, x+width, y-height) and I think it creates a rectangle with UV coords.

[[Krogoth86]]

I now have the problem that when I want to let a non-builder to be guarded by a unit I get "Command canceled - two units can't guard each other" and I couldn't find a reason for this yet...

While guarding armed units doesn't work at all for builders there seems to be a rather correct behaviour i.e. you tell one builder to guard another and it works but if you try to then do it the other way round too you get the "Command canceled - two units can't guard each other" again which in this case is correct...

It' also strange that in BA for example you can create "cross-guardings" which just create some can't-do-sounds after a while but the commands get applied...

Any ideas what exactly creates this behaviour?

[[Krogoth86]]

I actually found the problem: The build costs widget caused this behaviour - an update to 1.02 fixed it for me...

[BlueTemplar]

Most of XTA and CA units are using special weapon effects, but when I look at the mod files I can't seem to find what is different from BA... Is there something like a "shader config" involved?

[Argh]

Um, the weapon effects are defined in the weapon, not the Unit.

[KDR_11k]

Most of XTA and CA units are using special weapon effects, but when I look at the mod files I can't seem to find what is different from BA... Is there something like a "shader config" involved?

There might be some LUPS things, you'll have to ask jK about that.

[BlueTemplar]

it's because I have this weird graphical bug, that happens with XTA, EDIT:CA, and MA (but not BA, SA...)

[BlueTemplar]

It's like the textures are corrupted, but pasting the textures from BA and tatextures in the mod didn't change anything...

I find there is a similarity with this bug I had when trying to make an old mod to work

viewtopic.php?t=14217&p=264654#p264654

[[Krogoth86]]

Well what graphics card and drivers do you use? It seems like you have distortions for all the additional textures that come with the mod file. I also guess it's CA which didn't work for you (you listed BA twice )...

[Argh]

Um, the two shots show completely different things, but yeah, either way, it's borked. I'd say it's probably a Lua problem. Does this happen with P.U.R.E.? If yes, then it's not Lua, I'm not using any Lua special FX in 0.55.

[[Krogoth86]]

@Argh:
Well as his first shot is from MA and I also just use normal Cegs and no LUPS or something like that I'd guess it has nothing to do with LUA...

[Argh]

Ah. Well... the other thing it could be is the texture format. Look in your bitmaps... are you guys using TGA, or PNG?

[[Krogoth86]]

As for me - I'm using TGAs...