Custom unit icons

colorblind · Post by **colorblind** » 24 Jun 2006, 16:25

In the next release units will be replaced with icons when they're far away and on the minimap. It'll look something like this:

Mod makers have the possibility to create custom icons for units. See the wiki for more info: http://taspring.clan-sy.com/wiki/CustomUnitIcons
Please read that Wiki page before posting questions here.

You can grab the dev build to test it out here: http://taspring.clan-sy.com/dl/spring_0.73b1_dev.exe

Note that thanks to the new Spring Data Dir feature you don't have to pack your mod everytime you made a change; just place it unpacked in /mods/yourmod.sdd/ .

You can grab a set of test icons here:
http://teake.home.fmf.nl/temp/unit_icons.zip

If you want to change the distance at which units become icons, you'll have to add an extra DWORD "UnitIconDist" to \HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SJ\spring. The default value is 200 (in decimals). Don't worry, this will be added to settings.exe in the next release :P.

Post by **jcnossen** » 24 Jun 2006, 16:40

Nice work, but can you make it optional? I prefer no icons tbh, though others might like it.

I have no internet on my development pc for at least 2 weeks, so you'll have to make the test build yourself.

Das Bruce · Post by **Das Bruce** » 24 Jun 2006, 16:50

Modding feature FTW.

How is teamcolour controlled?

Comp1337 · Post by **Comp1337** » 24 Jun 2006, 17:11

Pwnalicious.

colorblind · Post by **colorblind** » 24 Jun 2006, 17:16

Das Bruce wrote:How is teamcolour controlled?

The icons get blended with the teamcolor. So there's no special team color channel.

Drone_Fragger · Post by **Drone_Fragger** » 24 Jun 2006, 17:22

hooray. The wpring community spewed forth someone to do this! WE WIN! ALL HAIL COLOURBLIND! BRINGER OF SUPCOMSTYLEZOOMTHING!

AF · Post by AF » 24 Jun 2006, 17:31

finally, somethign similar to the HW sensor mdoe I've bene going on about for nearly a year

Zenka · Post by **Zenka** » 24 Jun 2006, 17:47

looks nice. Having blobs on that scale is more usefull then several pixels that indicate that it might be a unit

alik83 · Post by **alik83** » 24 Jun 2006, 18:57

Nice work;) Colorblind!
So as I understood you could specify in the mod a custom icon for each unit with custom size multiplier.
So to get into this view you must zoom out fully? (with TAB)
If you specify custom sizes for icons(make them bigger) and they will overlap, will the selection of units work correctly (what happens if you click on a overlapped region?, would clicking on the edge of icon select the unit?(when the unit itself is smaller))
Keep up the work- this feature would be a great addition;)

Guessmyname · Post by **Guessmyname** » 24 Jun 2006, 20:07

Also: Can it be made so that we modders can control how far away (from the camera) units must be to become icons?

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 24 Jun 2006, 20:19

Cool!

Lindir The Green · Post by **Lindir The Green** » 24 Jun 2006, 22:14

It should be set up so that modders get to decide:

-at what distance the unit starts "morphing" into an icon.

-at what distance the unit finishes "morphing" into an icon.

-what the icon looks like.

And they should be seperately defined for each unit.

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 24 Jun 2006, 22:17

Guessmyname wrote:Also: Can it be made so that we modders can control how far away (from the camera) units must be to become icons?

+1

And lindr outside of distant the rest is covered if you read the wiki.

colorblind · Post by **colorblind** » 24 Jun 2006, 23:35

The distance at which units become icons will be user-configurable (and not mod-configurable).

The unit collision sphere, and not its icon, is used when making selections. So if you click on the edge of the icon of a smaller unit, it will not get selected. This might be subject to change though.

And units do not morph into icons (they just get replaced with icons when their distance to the camera exceeds a certain limit).

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 24 Jun 2006, 23:43

Colorblind, that really will be an issue in my mod. The whitebase and GAW are 40X40 footprints. They can be seen just fine. Also there are other units that are/will be in eventually that are large enough to see just fine. I really urge you to allow us to set a distance for specific blips.

Gnomre · Post by **Gnomre** » 25 Jun 2006, 00:33

Yeah, perhaps let the mod define it, then the user's config scales that up/down... that way large units behave as you'd expect, but the user can still turn down the settings if he needs to.

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 25 Jun 2006, 00:38

doesn't swta also have units that can benefit from this gnome?

Gnomre · Post by **Gnomre** » 25 Jun 2006, 01:20

I don't think any mod lacks units which could benefit from it

(oh, and where's the option to turn off auto radar targetting???)

Caydr · Post by **Caydr** » 25 Jun 2006, 03:04

Oh man... While I certainly appreciate the feature, it's sure going to be a bugger to edit 380 units to give them all a special icon.

Das Bruce · Post by **Das Bruce** » 25 Jun 2006, 04:26

Caydr wrote:Oh man... While I certainly appreciate the feature, it's sure going to be a bugger to edit 380 units to give them all a special icon.

We'll see you in a week.

Spring RTS Engine

Custom unit icons

Custom unit icons

Nice work;)