Be very afraid of the things I decide to do to kill time at work. Very (VERY) large circular health meter as a proof of concept for circular progress bars. In order to try it out you'll need to add an include to your eq2ui_mainhud.xml for the eq2ui_mainhud_health.xml, then just /show_window MainHUD.Health. The alignment of the progress bars isn't perfect, but it's good enough to show that the idea works in practice. Enjoy!
P.S. I may, at some point, turn this into a player window mod...I've got an idea for the layout, but after doing all the math required to get this thing working right I'm in no hurry to do it again.
Edit: Special thanks to Perdition for pointing me in the right direction with the progress bar styles and Deathbane27 for helping me rid myself of the annoying overhang problem I was having.
The math would be different, and you'd need more "foreground" images to block overlapping portions of the progressbars, but the theory remains the same.
For myself, my end goal is something like the mockup image attached to this message.
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.
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
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.
Don't bother. The HO window doesn't use any actual progress bars, it's just a bunch of image segments with a Visible property change.
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Circular progress meters, the hard way
Very (VERY) large circular health meter as a proof of concept for circular progress bars. In order to try it out you'll need to add an include to your eq2ui_mainhud.xml for the eq2ui_mainhud_health.xml, then just /show_window MainHUD.Health. The alignment of the progress bars isn't perfect, but it's good enough to show that the idea works in practice. Enjoy!
03-03-2005, 12:51 PM
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