UI Modding

[JackRCDF]

Hey guise,

I'm trying to move the command card around. Not the graphics, just the black bit where the buttons are placed. Now, the file to edit would seem to be the one in C:/Program Files/StarCraft II/Mods/Core.SC2Mod
In that MPQ, it's in Base.SC2Data/UI/Layout/UI/GameUI.SC2Layout

I can edit that file fine, my question is, how do I let a map or mod use it so that the changes apply to just one map or mod, and not to the entire game?

Cheers

 

[M0RT]

I don't think that is possible. If you want to create a custom command card, use "Create dialog item from template", however hotkeys won't work for such a command card.

 

[mjllonir]

I don't think that is possible. If you want to create a custom command card, use "Create dialog item from template", however hotkeys won't work for such a command card.

As M0rt said, it won't be possible through the data editor. Does anyone know if the keyboard trigger permits you to press any button now? Or is it still just the arrow keys?

Cause if you can set it up as any button you want, then you could definitely set up a trigger for it.

 

[Statharas]

Any button.

 

[M0RT]

Yes you could, but it1) will generate lot of net traffic, if you are monitoring every key press
2) still won't allow you to enter targeting/placement mode, so you can't simulate ability buttons (which are 99% of command card buttons)

 

[JackRCDF]

I don't think that is possible. If you want to create a custom command card, use "Create dialog item from template", however hotkeys won't work for such a command card.

I want the hotkeys to work for abilities and spells, so that's why I tried modding it.

Why wouldn't it be possible? I can import the file into a map fine, either via MPQ editing or the editor's Importer module, I just can't get the changes to apply.

 

[mrzwach]

Because SC2 doesn't like you overriding files that are found in the core mpq. Not sure why, but it simply doesn't work (for any file in there from what I've seen).

 

[mjllonir]

Wait wait wait! I jsut had a CRAZY IDEA!

What if you would just "hide" the UI, but place the abilities on it anyways, so the hotkeys keep functioning. Just attribute a certain button on-screen to one of the buttons on the hidden command card.

If you're trying to make them be able to move their abilities around, just make the switch between abilities on the hidden command card.

Do you understand what I'm trying to say? Cause while I'm explaining, I have a feeling I'm not making much sense here.

Anyways, this way you won't have to set up a hotkey to every "on-screen" button, but rather the ones that are already set up in the data editor.

 

[M0RT]

As long as command card is hidden, hotkeys don't work.

 

[mjllonir]

Oh...alright nvm then...Kinda stupid if you ask me but whatever.

Why would F10 (Menu) work and not the command card?

 

[M0RT]

F10 does work? I though that if you disable the menu bar, you can acces game menu with ESC instead of F10.
And yes, it is stupid, yes, I reported in in EU editor questions forum and yes, blizzard ignores that.

 

[mjllonir]

Well, on some of the games like one of those racing games (If I do recall he removed the UI), F10 still worked.

 

[Rispetto]

Here's an even crazier idea:
Create custom buttons that fill the entire command card with a design of your choosing.
HOLY CRAP, CAN I GET A /FACEDESK?

 

[JackRCDF]

Here's an even crazier idea:
Create custom buttons that fill the entire command card with a design of your choosing.
HOLY CRAP, CAN I GET A /FACEDESK?

You DO realise that you can't use hotkeys with dialog buttons? And that if you trigger it, it generates a lot of network traffic?

I think I have worked out a workaround, but I'll have to test it first to see if it'll work.

 

[Rispetto]

Uhh.. you don't need custom UI for custom buttons.
And nobody said anything about hotkeys.
I'm simply saying create a bunch of buttons with the design you want and assign them
to the empty slots in the command card. Problem solved.

 

[JackRCDF]

Uhh.. you don't need custom UI for custom buttons.
And nobody said anything about hotkeys.
I'm simply saying create a bunch of buttons with the design you want and assign them
to the empty slots in the command card. Problem solved.

Wouldn't they still be in the same area as the standard command card? I want them moved across to (roughly) the middle of the screen.

EDIT
Nevermind, you mean "Dialog - Create a Image for dialog (Last created dialog) using the template "CommandPanel/CommandPanelTemplate"". At least, I think you do

EDIT2 But to do that you'd probably have to hide the game UI which disables the command card hotkeys anyway.

 

[Statharas]

Do you want an "Effin crazy idea"?

Alpha out all UI textures, and all the icons you are going to use, and simply create a dialog with the buttons you want to use. Hotkeys will still work.

 

[JackRCDF]

Do you want an "Effin crazy idea"?

Alpha out all UI textures, and all the icons you are going to use, and simply create a dialog with the buttons you want to use. Hotkeys will still work.

This is something like what I decided to do, except that you can only alpha out the modeled UI section, not the black bits where the command card buttons are. But I'll put an image or something else over the top of that.

 

[Rispetto]

But I'll put an image or something else over the top of that.

*Cough*

 

[Darkness-4ever]

*Cough*

Someone get his computer a doctor... technician... Doctician! It's coughing comments on its own now!