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Unread 03-03-2005, 04:11 PM
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Originally Posted by ger
It's hard to explain in text, but I'll give it a shot. What I did was to arrange 5 progress bars in a square pattern, each one displaying a portion of its total range. So bar1 (0 degrees to -45 degrees, empties from right to left, top-left segment) displays the top 12.5% of a full health progressbar, the rest is set transparent in the DDS. Bar2 (-45 degrees to -135 degrees, empties from top to bottom, left segment) displays the next 25% of a health progressbar with the first 12.5% and the last 62.5% transparent. Bar3 (-135 degrees to -225 degrees, empties from left to right, bottom segment) displays the next 25% of a health progressbar, with the first 37.5% and the last 37.5% transparent. Bar4 (-225 degrees to -315 degrees, empties from bottom to top, right segment) displays the next 25% of a health progressbar with the first 62.5% transparent and the last 12.5% transparent. The last bar, bar5 (-315 degrees to 0 degrees, empties from right to left, top-right segment) displays the final 12.5% of a health progressbar, with the rest set transparent.

As each individual bar moves out of its own visible areas the next one moves into it, giving the illusion of one continuous bar instead of the 5 individual bars it actually is. Each bar is a rectangular area, but the masked overlay only displays a semi-circular portion of each progressbar, again giving the illusion of a single, circular progressbar.

Hope that made some kind of sense.

Yes, I understand what you are saying.

The Heroic Oportunity window that pops up has a circular progress bar on it.
I haven't even looked to see if we even have a file for that window.
But seems like you might be able to use something in there.
That's a pretty neat idea the way you worked it thouugh.
I was thinking something like that might be possible for the compass also, but decided there was not enough demand for a round compass.

not to mention the other issues involed with that.
I'll stick to the stuff I think people can use on a daily bases.

Your a real glutten for punishment with this project!!
lol
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