EQInterface Forums - Working Vertical Gauge!

10-28-2002, 05:17 PM

Haliken

Quintessence of EQUI XML

Join Date: Sep 2002

Posts: 773

Working Vertical Gauge!

Figured out how to make a vertical gauge, it's not easy and involves a TON of XML. Try this out and see what you think, it's an XML mod for the spell gem window ( the thin bar usualyy on the elft that has your 8 memmed spells in it ). Sorry no screenshot. The entire window is the vertical gauge that empties, from top to bottom, as you cast a spell.

Enokhaon Starfyre
Innoruuk Server

Attached Files

verticalgauge_castspellwnd.zip (4.4 KB, 291 views)

10-28-2002, 05:28 PM	#2
Cormanth A Shissar Defiler Join Date: Aug 2002 Server: Zebuxoruk Posts: 172	I can't believe someone actually had the patience to create 100 gauges for this. But then, I can't believe I created a circular gauge that took 51 gauges..... anywho, yes, this is about the only way to make a completely vertical gauge. Problem is, obviously, alot of gauges and a nice big xml file. Another problem I've considered is that this might cause 'laggy' effects on less robust computer systems. I'll give you a 'pat on the back' for actually sitting down and putting in all 100 gauges tho. Oh, and if I'm not mistaken, you don't need a seperate animation for each line of the gauge. Infact, since each gauge encompasses a single percent of the total gauge, you could probably get by with a single animation that's 1 pixel high, and use the same animation for each gauge. -Cormanth

10-28-2002, 05:37 PM	#3
Haliken Quintessence of EQUI XML Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 773	I have a fairly powerful machine ( AMD Athlon XP 1500, 512 MB SDRAM, GeForce 3 Ti200 ) and a way to monitor EQ's framerate and lost maybe 10 frames per second with this and hitting F10 to hide the UI gives me about 37 frames a sec increase, so obviously it isn't easy on the CPU. Also, I used a tab box and page to limit the gauge's left and right so that theorhetically this gauge could work without having to take up the whole window, I just made it use the whole window so it'd be big and visible. The way I coded it allows for you to use just one animation file. I actually just used a 20 pixel wide, 1 pixel high section from the note window background for the gauge. Enok

10-29-2002, 12:29 AM	#4
Cragzak A Shissar Disciple Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 112	Screenshot please __________________ Cragzak Bonehead ~ Baron Ogre Warlord Tarew Marr Server

10-29-2002, 06:51 AM

Tils

A Snow Griffin

Join Date: Aug 2002

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Quote:

Originally posted by Cragzak
Screenshot please

You and your screenshots Cragzak!

anyway...screenshot if poss

Tils

10-31-2002, 01:48 PM	#6
Cragzak A Shissar Disciple Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 112	<-------------- LaZy!!!

10-31-2002, 02:05 PM

Haliken

Quintessence of EQUI XML

Join Date: Sep 2002

Posts: 773

Ok, I'll post a screenshot after I log into EQ and take one, until then, check out this version with a better set up gauge and an easy to edit TGA file so you can make the gauge a different color.

Haliken

( Included in the zip is a second tga that's an example of it colored red, the default tga is white, and really ugly. )

Attached Files

spcastvg.zip (4.8 KB, 92 views)

10-31-2002, 04:46 PM

Haliken

Quintessence of EQUI XML

Join Date: Sep 2002

Posts: 773

Screenshot

This also has a skin applied to it, that's why the cast gems are square and the border is weird, without the skin, it looks quite different.

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spcastvg.jpg (2.8 KB, 1940 views)

11-02-2002, 03:12 PM	#9
Veirna An Icepaw Kobold Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 86	Could you explain exactly how 100 gauges make up the casting bar? i can't quite understand how that works __________________

11-07-2002, 02:48 AM	#10
Haliken Quintessence of EQUI XML Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 773	Basically, to make a vertical gauge, instead of being 100 pixels wide imagine it's 100 pixels tall, one pixel per percent. Since you can't REALLY make a vertical gauge, it's 100 gauges stacked on top of each other and coordinated so they disappear as the bars drop. Uh, yeah. Enok

11-07-2002, 11:55 AM	#11
Gixxerryder A Treant Join Date: Aug 2002 Server: Rodcet Nife Posts: 23	Anyway someone can skin this to work with this request?? Lightning Cast bar.. Thx.. Rayen Rodcet Nife

11-23-2002, 02:04 PM	#12
JarynVZ A Snow Cougar Join Date: Sep 2002 Server: Vallon Posts: 46	Jeebus, that must have been a lotta work.

11-26-2002, 10:21 AM	#13
Veirna An Icepaw Kobold Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 86	how did you coordinate it to disappear 1% at a time with a different gauge is what im wondering... its all the same gauge but duplicated 100x, but has a delay factor put in or something ?

11-26-2002, 02:59 PM	#14
aeluin Denizen of the Interface Join Date: Sep 2002 Server: Tholuxe Paelis Posts: 279	I haven't looked at the code but my impression is he probably played with the gaugeoffset x value. __________________ "All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring; renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king." -Aragorn's Theme by J.R.R. Tolkien

11-26-2002, 04:08 PM	#15
Haliken Quintessence of EQUI XML Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 773	Actually, the gauges are just thousands of pixels wide and only a 40 pixel wide segment is shown, they're staggered so that the one percent that it's supposed to be represented is showing.