Progress Bars
Verthandi
Join Date: 2002-12-12 Member: 10687Members, NS1 Playtester
Join Date: 2002-12-12 Member: 10687Members, NS1 Playtester
A few people expressed an interest in modifying the little progress bar that's shown when researching or evolving. Well, here we go...
Find the <b>ui.txt</b> file in the NS root directory. Within, find the following:
<i>start ProgressBar ResearchProgress</i>
Following that section, should be a similar one, headed as GenericProgress. The former is for the Commander to see while researching something, and the latter is for the Aliens while evolving.
The only flags that seem to have any effect are:
<i>xpos</i> - Defines the origin of the progress bar; 0 is left edge of screen, 1 is right edge
<i>ypos</i> - Similarly; 0 is top, 1 is bottom
<i>width</i> - How wide the whole progress bar is; 0 is 0%, and 1 is 100% (of the whole screen)
<i>height</i> - Similarly...
<i>segments</i> - How many steps the bar is split into; a larger amount means that you'll have a more finer indication of progress. However, don't make this number too high (stay within 100), because each segment is separated by a white gap, and at high numbers, the white gaps take up all the space, and you won't see the blue indicators.
The flags for color are apparently there, but non-functional.
For those (blessed) with NS3.x:
I've just noticed a third section headed as AlienProgress, and I'm assuming that it replaces GenericProgress in function. Further testing pending.
Find the <b>ui.txt</b> file in the NS root directory. Within, find the following:
<i>start ProgressBar ResearchProgress</i>
Following that section, should be a similar one, headed as GenericProgress. The former is for the Commander to see while researching something, and the latter is for the Aliens while evolving.
The only flags that seem to have any effect are:
<i>xpos</i> - Defines the origin of the progress bar; 0 is left edge of screen, 1 is right edge
<i>ypos</i> - Similarly; 0 is top, 1 is bottom
<i>width</i> - How wide the whole progress bar is; 0 is 0%, and 1 is 100% (of the whole screen)
<i>height</i> - Similarly...
<i>segments</i> - How many steps the bar is split into; a larger amount means that you'll have a more finer indication of progress. However, don't make this number too high (stay within 100), because each segment is separated by a white gap, and at high numbers, the white gaps take up all the space, and you won't see the blue indicators.
The flags for color are apparently there, but non-functional.
For those (blessed) with NS3.x:
I've just noticed a third section headed as AlienProgress, and I'm assuming that it replaces GenericProgress in function. Further testing pending.
Comments
I would really love to see this.. Not just editing the properties of that white thing!
Anyhow, thank you <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->