Spring RTS Engine

So I took trepan old HighlightUnit widget, and modified so instead of highlighting the unit under cursor, it highlight the select units, in the color of health.

Note: To avoid color clashes, it also turn your own team color to grey, unless you're speccing.

This looks great, but can I ask you a huge favour?
Could you implement this for coop mode? So we can see what units our allies have selected?

Beherith: I wasn't aware Lua had access to allies selection.

Regret: Here are pics:




Here's a version I prefer, without the flashing stripes:

For allies you'd have to pass the info around ala alliedcursors, which is a bit fiddly for long lists of units (but possible)

Regret is pleased.

I wote a widget that purposely broadcasts false selection data, and a cursor that is randomly moving all over the map.

Whats wrong with jk's SelectionHalo?

very_bad_soldier wrote:Whats wrong with jk's SelectionHalo?

What's wrong with mine?

Actually, I didn't know about jK widget. But now that I downloaded and tried it: Just like trepan's platter, it is team colored. Which I find silly because you usually know the team's color, especially since it's worn by the model itself already. Mine instead is health colored. So it gives another information, which wasn't already easily available (if we assume healthbar is off or too small).

SelectionHalo makes old crappy embedded Intel videochips crawl.

zwzsg wrote: Actually, I didn't know about jK widget. But now that I downloaded and tried it: Just like trepan's platter, it is team colored. Which I find silly because you usually know the team's color, especially since it's worn by the model itself already. Mine instead is health colored. So it gives another information, which wasn't already easily available (if we assume healthbar is off or too small).

Ok, the healthcolored stuff is a good idea. But, no offense, judging from your screenies, SelectionHalo just looks better. Maybe combine the best of both worlds?

zwzsg wrote:

very_bad_soldier wrote:Whats wrong with jk's SelectionHalo?

What's wrong with mine?

Actually, I didn't know about jK widget. But now that I downloaded and tried it: Just like trepan's platter, it is team colored. Which I find silly because you usually know the team's color, especially since it's worn by the model itself already. Mine instead is health colored. So it gives another information, which wasn't already easily available (if we assume healthbar is off or too small).

It was teamcolored a few months ago. Now it's green for selected, blue for hover and purple for feature. I forked it to add yellow for ally selections.

Tribulex wrote:I wote a widget that purposely broadcasts false selection data, and a cursor that is randomly moving all over the map.

If you do this in CA then you'll have one of two results:
1) You're hindering your team by doing so, which is the same as walking around building useless stuff with your comm.
2) You're a spec so no one is receiving your useless crap.

zwzsg wrote:Note: To avoid color clashes, it also turn your own team color to grey, unless you're speccing.

I'm torn about this.

Without the Fade to Grey, you sometimes have distateful color clashes, like green over pink, or conflicting information, like is it red because of team color or because it's about to die?

But having all your unit grey is so dull.