nick field width

[Dado_Ze]

Hello,

 

I there a way/macro to get actual nick field width in ears.

When i understand correctly the nick field width is dynamically changed depending of longest nick in team list, correct me please when I'm wrong...

 

 

I wanted to make HP bars that width are till end of nick field, but because the width of nick field is not always same, it's apparently not proportional on left and right ears,

....and it differs from battle to battle.

I know that I could limit nick characters, but I would like to know is there way to get the actual width without limiting the nick...

[sirmax]

It's possible to do, but I'm not sure that this will be useful.

[Dado_Ze]

Here is a example where the HP bars appears not proportional.

 

 

My idea/question was to get actual width of nick field and add a value so HP bars appears everytime proportional..

 

My actual config for HP bars in playersPanel.xc / extraFields

 

"extraFieldsLeft": [
{ "x": 2, "y": 22, "valign": "center", "w": 111, "h": 2, "bgColor": "0xffffff", "alpha": "{{alive?75|0}}" },
{ "x": 2, "y": 22, "valign": "center", "w": "{{hp-ratio:111}}", "h": 2, "bgColor": "0x149612", "alpha": "{{alive?100|0}}" }
],
"extraFieldsRight": [
 { "x": 2, "y": 22, "valign": "center", "w": 111, "h": 2, "bgColor": "0xffffff", "alpha": "{{alive?75|0}}" },
 { "x": 2, "y": 22, "valign": "center", "w": "{{hp-ratio:111}}", "h": 2, "bgColor": "0xdc0f00", "alpha": "{{alive?100|0}}" },
${"enemySpottedMarker"}
]

 

but it would looks much better/proportional with a way like...

 

"extraFieldsLeft": [
{ "x": 2, "y": 22, "valign": "center", "w": {{nickFieldLeft width+xx}} , "h": 2, "bgColor": "0xffffff", "alpha": "{{alive?75|0}}" },
{ "x": 2, "y": 22, "valign": "center", "w": "{{hp-ratio:nickFieldLeft width+xx}}", "h": 2, "bgColor": "0x149612", "alpha": "{{alive?100|0}}" }
],
"extraFieldsRight": [
{ "x": 2, "y": 22, "valign": "center", "w": {{nickFieldRight width+xx}}, "h": 2, "bgColor": "0xffffff", "alpha": "{{alive?75|0}}" },
{ "x": 2, "y": 22, "valign": "center", "w": "{{hp-ratio:nickFieldRight width+xx}}", "h": 2, "bgColor": "0xdc0f00", "alpha": "{{alive?100|0}}" },
${"enemySpottedMarker"}
]

 

I hope my way of describing the problem and possibilities is enough understandable

Edited May 4, 2016 by nemesisx

[sirmax]

You can use "playersPanel"/"<mode>"/"width" option to set minimum field width, and panels will not be shorter even if all nicks are short. Different scale for left and right panels are not looks like a good idea.

Edited May 4, 2016 by sirmax

[Dado_Ze]

I totally agree with You, but what I don't like is, the nick field is already not proportional (left/right) and dynamic...

Anyway thank You for time and help

Edited May 4, 2016 by nemesisx

[sirmax]

There are no problem with different size of nicks, but it's worst for hp lines. If you don't like different size of nicks, just increase "width" parameter.

[Dado_Ze]

After some experimenting i found a ideal solution...

 

...and i tryed to experiment with shadow's on HP lines, but without success....

Its just invisible on that field, or I do something wrong, or the HP lines are to tiny, or shadows are not supported on non text field...

When they are supported, can someone please make a example for shadow's on HP lines....

 

 

One more question to not open a new topic...

What is the correct way to call integrated xvm font through configs in that 2 cases....

 

"<font face='xvm' </font>"

 

"font": {
   "name": "XVMSymbol",

   ...

}

[konrad509]

xvm not XVMSymbol

[Dado_Ze]

xvm not XVMSymbol

 

That means the first example is correct and the second should be...

 

"font": {

   "name": "xvm",

   ...

}

[konrad509]

Yes.

 

I think it's possible to add a shadow.

Edited May 6, 2016 by konrad509

[Dado_Ze]

Here the screenshot after i applied the shadow, but the shadow its not to see....

 

and here is my config used for screenshot...

{ "x": -85, "y": 23, "bindToIcon": true, "w": 1, "h": -21, "bgColor": "0xffffff", "alpha": "{{alive?75|20}}",
      "shadow": {
        "distance": 0,
        "angle":    0,
        "color":    "0x000000",
        "alpha":    0.75,
        "blur":     2,
        "strength": 8
      }
    },

 

I tryed to get it like dark shadow outlined around the HP bar.But what ever I do with the values of shadow, shadow are not shown....

btw I'm using xvm night build 5468...

 

Could it be.... that there is nothing on what the shadow should be applied, no character, no image ....just background color?

Edited May 7, 2016 by nemesisx

[konrad509]

I've just tested it and indeed it doesn't work. So maybe it's actually not supposed to work after all. Though I thought it should, according to what it's said in the description of extra fields in the default playersPanel.xc file. Maybe I misinterpreted it...

Edited May 7, 2016 by konrad509

[Dado_Ze]

It could be, but im not sure, need to test it....background color is not a object, and the shadow is supposed to be applied on a object and not on a "empty space" with just background color...