Modding the UI/Game Visuals in Reb? Need Help. *UPDATED*

Window files set up the position of UI elements, brushes files point to the position and file of the UI elements on a texture sheet. If you're serious about making this chances are you'll have to open them all up anyways.

Probably a texture file somewhere, I don't think either is controlled by a windows file.

It will load your new file and totally ignore the standard file.

Ok, fair enough. And, thanks for responding.

Perhaps you can help me with another question. I have a particle designed, in PF, and I now want to apply it to planet graphics. How do I do that?

Thanks!

-Boe

I'm not a particle forge expert, but such effects are usually applied by a buff from the planet (unless its something like a magnetic cloud, I think that's done in the mesh somehow). Look at abilities like clairvoyance to have an idea of how it is done.

A flair hardpoint on the mesh would suffice if you are precise. This will, however, effect all things using that mesh.

If you want it to show all the time, then a flair point needs to be added to the mesh. If it's from an ability, you can use the existing points like Above, Center, Aura (below) or a custom mesh point where you want called Ability-1 thru 5

Wow, that sounds complicated. Looking at it more thoroughly, thanks to GoaFan's recommendation, I will be going the Ability route. Should be sufficient for my needs.

Final (haha) question for you all. Is there a way to trigger such an ability (as adds a visual effect), when an invasion begins on that planet? Like an "OnInvasion" command?

Thanks again!

-Boe

ok, figured out the invasion thing. just gotta get the coding right.

got the abilities to work, thanks to your assistance, but now im running into a weird thing. when i save, and reload the game, on the reload the particle effect is gone. i imagine because the ability already fired, the buff was applied, but sins didnt feel the need to re-up the fx. anyone know a work around on this?

part of it could be that i had to put a stackLimit 1 on the buff entity, because otherwise it would keep firing the fx, causing them to look like solid bands instead of text. that was the cause of the aforementioned brightness, many stacked layers of the effect. gotta be a happy median somewhere...

thanks again,

-Boe

When dealing with effects there is PlayAttachedEffect and PlayPersistantAttachedEffect....

Maybe try the persistant if you haven't already...

Sadly, I already had it set to persistent, but I appreciate the suggestion.

Yeah your only way to get out of that then is to switch from instant action to periodic action....which may or may not be viable for you...

on the Eclipse page, i see this as an explanation of the call functions:

• numPeriodicActions: Iteration
• periodicAction
• actionCountType: Condition
• actionIntervalTime: GenericLevel
• buffInstantActionType: Condition

but no explanation of these functions. interval time is obvious, as is the action type. but what is the counttype? what functions do you use on it?

thanks for your help!

Better sometimes to just find a pre-existing ability to model...

Many of the passive AoE abilities in this game use periodic actions...you could look at something like energy aura or targeting uplink...