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FO GUI's in stock A2

Rifraf

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I had gotten the FO's GUI's to work in stock A2 a while ago, but had some issues so shelved it. A recent thread over at FO got me looking into them again.

I've attached a screen shot from in game and it shows dilithium and latinum on the upper left along with the unused supply. In the middle is metal, officers and crew from left to right. For testing I used the Borg collective connections I think it is for metal and used the supply icon for the officers and crew.

For the life of me I can't get the stock metal and crew icons to show up there. In the global sprite file I reference the stock A2 texture that shows the metal and crew symbols and reference their approximate location, but it still only shows the FO symbols. Any ideas?

Here's the bit from the sprite file:
@referenceWidth=1024
@referenceHeight=256
@tmaterial=interface
resourcePanel.0 all_interface 895 127 48 48
resourcePanel.1 all_interface 959 127 48 48
resourcePanel.2 all_interface 895 191 48 48
resourcePanel.3 all_interface 959 191 48 48
resourcePanel.4 all_interface 895 191 48 48
resourcePanel.5 all_interface 895 191 48 48
 

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Terradyhne

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In stock A2 are the resource symbols set in the races gui_XX.spr, not in the gui_global.spr . Your other mistake is that you used the FleetOPs TGA-file, the all_interface.tga. In A2 those are set with the races ui.tga-files. Here is the stock A2 gui_federation.spr setting for this:

# Federation Resource Panel
resourcePanel.0 fedUI0 0 214 256 40
resourcePanel.1 fedUI2 0 0 256 40
resourcePanel.2 fedUI2 0 200 76 40
resourcePanel.3 fedUI2 0 40 256 40
resourcePanel.4 fedUI2 0 80 194 40

This means that you have to change the resource icons on the all_interface.tga from the FleetOps standard icons, to the Stock A2 icons or you will have those race ui bars from stock in the place where those icons are. FleetOps uses the same res icons for all races and has only one texture for it, stock A2 uses manny textures for those icons, for every race ingame. I have made a pic with both textures from FleetOps and one respective Federation Ui-texture from stock A2, next to each other and marked those icons in red circles.

ResIconsFO+StockA2.jpg


maybe this helps not good at explaining these days
 
Rifraf

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Hey Terradyhne. It helps believe me. I was a bit of an idiot though when I posted this:
@referenceWidth=1024
@referenceHeight=256
@tmaterial=interface
resourcePanel.0 all_interface 895 127 48 48
resourcePanel.1 all_interface 959 127 48 48
resourcePanel.2 all_interface 895 191 48 48
resourcePanel.3 all_interface 959 191 48 48
resourcePanel.4 all_interface 895 191 48 48
resourcePanel.5 all_interface 895 191 48 48

Yes, that is the stock reference from FO. I should have posted my entries which referenced fedUI2 I believe it was and my coordinates so apologies for that. I had changed the .tga reference of resourcePanel lines _3, _4 and _5 I think to reference the stock fedUI2.tga, but it still showed the FO icons. Let me try again when home this evening and I'll report back.

The FO sprite entries I'm using are a bit different from stock so it's kind of a mix of both. Each race has a small base sprite file then they all reference a default sprite file which has the panel locations for all races. I just need to figure out the metal, offices and crew icons.
 
Rifraf

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I ran a test and I'm on the right track now. Just need to get it all right. I changed my global.spr to the following:
@referenceWidth=1024
@referenceHeight=256
@tmaterial=interface
resourcePanel.0 all_interface 895 127 48 48
resourcePanel.1 all_interface 959 127 48 48
resourcePanel.2 all_interface 895 191 48 48
resourcePanel.3 fedUI0 0 214 256 40
resourcePanel.4 all_interface 895 191 48 48
resourcePanel.5 all_interface 895 191 48 48

All I changed was panel.3 and got the following result so at least I'm getting there:
upload_2017-3-8_21-31-1.png

It's not exactly right, but the stock dilithium icon now appears by the 2000 value. I just need to get the metal icon there, the officer icon by the 15/750 and the crew icon by the 2260.

I made the following as a test, but the metal and crew icon didn't show up:
upload_2017-3-8_21-33-38.png

I cut and pasted the metal and crew icon into the FO .tga, but as said they didn't show up in game. If I delete the layer mask from a .tga and add my icons do I have to add the layer mask back to get them to show up? I hope that all makes sense.
 
Terradyhne

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Rifraf said:
I ran a test and I'm on the right track now. Just need to get it all right. I changed my global.spr to the following:
@referenceWidth=1024
@referenceHeight=256
@tmaterial=interface
resourcePanel.0 all_interface 895 127 48 48
resourcePanel.1 all_interface 959 127 48 48
resourcePanel.2 all_interface 895 191 48 48
resourcePanel.3 fedUI0 0 214 256 40
resourcePanel.4 all_interface 895 191 48 48
resourcePanel.5 all_interface 895 191 48 48

All I changed was panel.3 and got the following result so at least I'm getting there:
View attachment 14020

It's not exactly right, but the stock dilithium icon now appears by the 2000 value. I just need to get the metal icon there, the officer icon by the 15/750 and the crew icon by the 2260.

I made the following as a test, but the metal and crew icon didn't show up:
View attachment 14021

I cut and pasted the metal and crew icon into the FO .tga, but as said they didn't show up in game. If I delete the layer mask from a .tga and add my icons do I have to add the layer mask back to get them to show up? I hope that all makes sense.
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:clap: You are on the right track, the layer is only for transparency around tose icons. You have to change the coordinates for the icons in the spr-file to those of your pasted icons. The easiest way to achieve what you want is to paste them directly on over the old icons in the texture, with this method you don't need to change the coordinates in your spr-file.

I made a tga-file for you, with alpha mask and all those icons you want from stock A2, its called all_interface2.tga but i can't attach it here, it doesnt upload so here is a link to download it.
Http://www.terradyhne-yards.de/all_interface2.tga

Sorry Staff, if this type of linking is not allowed :angel:
 
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Rifraf

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Thank you for doing that tga for me. The simplest things elude me. I had tried the very same thing before and just tried again to paste the stock icons onto that FO tga, but I can still see the FO icon underneath. What am I doing wrong? Yours is perfect, but I can't seem to duplicate it.

Do I just need to cut a bigger area on the donor tga that's big enough to cover the whole FO icon? Sorry for being a pain. :sweat: I'm using Gimp2
 
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