Name That Sprite!

Black_Viper

<div class="IPBDescription">Its a game, wel not really...</div> What sprite(s) is the weld progress bar, you know the with and blue one? Or is it just part of the game and you cant change it... <!--emo&::tsa::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tsa.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tsa.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Verthandi

Not a sprite, but still a little configurable. You can change it to any width, length, and height you want.

Black_Viper

So what is it and how?

Plus how do you resize a sprite, IE make the 640a-energy bar the size of the 320?

Verthandi

The parameters are located in <span style='color:gold'>ui.txt</span> in your <span style='color:green'>/nsp</span> folder. After opening it, find ProgressBar, there are three instances of it, and they all relate to different progress bars.

<b>ResearchProgress</b> is the one you see in Commander's View.
<b>GenericProgress</b> is the one you see when spectating.
<b>AlienProgress</b> is the one you see when gestating.

Resizing a sprite has to be done manually, by extracting the bitmap(s), editing them, and then recompiling them. However, I'm not sure if the two Alien gauges will scale properly (i.e. if you make them half as tall, they might appear full at only 50 resource or 50% energy).

<i>edit: Just tested it. If the sprite is not 256 pixels tall, the game will scale it in-game, making it look really bad. You can't 'cheat' the system, either. If you make the top half of the sprite completely transparent, the guages won't fill up correctly (like the situation described above).</i>

Black_Viper

Hmm, that sucks, i was getting tired of seeing that bar, but i dont wana mess with it if its going to screw things up, im to lazy to make copys/backups...
if i ever make something its final, and no going back...
not the best way to do things but thats how i make sure i get things done teh way i want them...