Spring RTS Engine

Currently BA uses a widget solely to give the minimap a black border to keep it inline with the GUI and this widget has a significant FPS impact compared the engine minimap.

I'd love to replace this widget with one that just sends a command to change the border colour of the engine minimap.

I realise it's a stupid niche feature but please consider that there is no easy way to do this without writing a whole custom widget to redraw the minimap which seems pretty extreme (and slow in this case).

Thanks

TheFatController wrote:that there is no easy way to do this without writing a whole custom widget to redraw the minimap which seems pretty extreme (and slow in this case)

That's just an exaggeration ...
If you want a better GUI then do it in Lua.
So no.

jK wrote:

TheFatController wrote:that there is no easy way to do this without writing a whole custom widget to redraw the minimap which seems pretty extreme (and slow in this case)

That's just an exaggeration ...
If you want a better GUI then do it in Lua.
So no.

BA has a better GUI, written in Lua.

It's excessive to have to use a widget to regenerate the minimap when it would be simple to open up this hardcoded value in the engine.

The engine already provides an interface to modify the build/command bar, why not the minimap?

perhaps your widget could be made more efficient?

aegis wrote:perhaps your widget could be made more efficient?

The only thing I can see in the RedUI widget that looks inefficient are hacks to make it work around the buggy minimap override behaviour. I guess the alternative would be to find out from the author (Regret ) what the bugs were and try to get them documented and raised but I figured this was an easier and more reasonable request.