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Custom Notifications Icons
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whoward69
DLL Minion
Ha! That would assume this game is moddable!
Short answer to "how to use Player:AddNotification() with a custom icon from a custom atlas" is "you can't" (as that would be too easy!)
The medium length answer is that you need to find a notification that does almost what you want and then bend it to your needs (preferably before it brings you to your knees!)
The most commonly used one is NOTIFICATION_WONDER_BEATEN as that uses the iExtraData1 value as an index into the Buildings table to retrieve the icon atlas/index pair and if not -1, the iExtraData2 value to display a civ's shield over the top of it. So to get it to display a generic icon you need to create a dummy building that uses that icon.
What happens when you click on the notification (like the Barb camp one showing you the location on the map) is hard-coded within the UI DLL, so if you want a complex notification you're out of luck unless you can find a standard one that does almost exactly what you want with no unwanted side effects (like displaying a pop-up dialog)
The longer answer is to use "UI - Notification Options" which in addition to letting the player switch on/off notifications of a certain type for the current/all games, and use control-right-click to remove all similar active notifications, provides a modular API to permit custom notifications of any complexity to be added - simple example is "Global - Enable Magellan", more complex example is "Global - Espionage Mapping"
W
PS: Thanks for returning Minion Igor
Short answer to "how to use Player:AddNotification() with a custom icon from a custom atlas" is "you can't" (as that would be too easy!)
The medium length answer is that you need to find a notification that does almost what you want and then bend it to your needs (preferably before it brings you to your knees!)
The most commonly used one is NOTIFICATION_WONDER_BEATEN as that uses the iExtraData1 value as an index into the Buildings table to retrieve the icon atlas/index pair and if not -1, the iExtraData2 value to display a civ's shield over the top of it. So to get it to display a generic icon you need to create a dummy building that uses that icon.
What happens when you click on the notification (like the Barb camp one showing you the location on the map) is hard-coded within the UI DLL, so if you want a complex notification you're out of luck unless you can find a standard one that does almost exactly what you want with no unwanted side effects (like displaying a pop-up dialog)
The longer answer is to use "UI - Notification Options" which in addition to letting the player switch on/off notifications of a certain type for the current/all games, and use control-right-click to remove all similar active notifications, provides a modular API to permit custom notifications of any complexity to be added - simple example is "Global - Enable Magellan", more complex example is "Global - Espionage Mapping"
W
PS: Thanks for returning Minion Igor
pineappledan
Deity
Thanks for this! Worked wonderfully (the sad drum sound obviously isn't the best match for a new luxury, but what can ya do? 
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