[Q] Is it possible to change the Lvl Progress Bar background color (Ugly gray)?

Vortaka

As the title says, Is it possible to change the Level Progress Bar background color (Ugly gray). Cause, well, I find it ugly... I'm currently using @AncientCowboy progress bar tweaks (the Next Level String and XP Delta ones). And it works great! But, I haven't found a way to change that yuck stale grey color for the background... Is it possible?

Thanks for any help!

AncientCowboy

Not short of developing an alternative to the 'progressbar' variation of the 'label' menu object (which with my lack of artistic skills would look very square-cornered-rectangular - three overlapping labels, one for background, one for 'filling' bar, one for 'full' bar). I've tried every 'progressbar' parameter alternative I can think of (e.g. back, background, bfill, bg, etc.) without success - sometimes with crashes, more often just ignored.

Vortaka

Yeah, tried some of that too without luck either... Thanks for trying!
P.S. Even if without artistic skills, do you know which files/lines must be changed? I don't have (or require to see) art/artistic skills either but I don't really mind!

AncientCowboy

After thinking about it a bit as a result of your last question - there may be a better alternative to the 3 overlapping labels. That would be an ugly, 'brute force' approach. There may be a graphical resource used to represent the empty progress bar that can be extracted (NearInfinity) and modified. The problem is, I have no idea what it's name is if it exists - and with several thousand MOS/BAM/PVRZ candidates, finding it would be a needle in the haystack kind of thing. At least the MOS/BAMs have semi-useful names (GUxxxxx most likely). However, a lot of the newer stuff is in PVRZ files - of which there are ~4000 most with arbitrary letter-number combination names. Unless someone just happens to know or run across it, finding it would be a major effort. And, of course, it is possible there is no image resource. It might just be 'drawn' via Direct-X/OpenGL calls in the underlying graphics engine code.
That said: To answer the question asked; in UI.MENU within the CHARACTER menu you'll find 1 (stock) or 3/4 (with Progress Bar tweaks installed) LABEL items with PROGRESSBAR attributes. That label, or each of those labels, is/are what you would have to replace with 3 LABEL items representing background/filling/full visuals (using the FILL attribute). You might be able to drop a fourth do-nothing LABEL/BUTTON on top displaying an image consisting of a frame and transparent center to make it more 'finished' looking. You'll need the logic to enable/disable the filling/full labels as appropriate; and to set the width of the 'filling' label (menu OnOpen probably). This is a lot of work just to change the background. But if you're game - Good luck!

Vortaka

I understand, I think... like doing my very own progressbar with the fill and variables... Cool! It might be a little out of my league though but the idea is excellent... It would be something like this...

Variables I would use are: The starting XP level my level, my current XP and the XP of the next level... With the variables (They may already be there, I don't have the file in front of me now) I create a rectange (percentage) that fills up depending on the variables... Is this about right?

AncientCowboy

That's about it - but the calculations are already done. Look at Progress Bars Tweaks. Feel free to 'borrow' anything needed - including the entire M_ file.

Vortaka

Thank you!

Zach_BD

AncientCowboy said:

And, of course, it is possible there is no image resource. It might just be 'drawn' via Direct-X/OpenGL calls in the underlying graphics engine code.

This is correct.

AncientCowboy

Thanks @Zach_BD - I suspected as much from the '3D' gradient shading as the bar fills.

lefreut

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Vortaka

lefreut said:

@Zach_BD if you can unhardcode this so that the progressbar uses an image in a future version, that would be great

I agree!