Gerikes
User of Run-on Sentences.
Hey all.
I've been working to get some sort of system built in where I can show a graphic on the plot that is being highlighted for GerikSpells. I was messing around all today with using CyEngine().addColoredPlotAlt to show a texture ont the plot. This worked well enough, but the problem is you can only add five more textures to the texture file that contains all the different colored plot pictures. I was looking for a more scalable solution. The best way to do this is probably by using effects.
The effects to highlight a plot don't have to be too difficult, just placing a simple texture onto the plot would work, even if it's not animated at all. The problem is I'm useless with graphics, but I'm sure that I could slug it out if given the right path to go down.
I've scoured the forum but haven't managed to find much in terms of creating new effects. Perhaps a tutorial could be done on it?
Furthermore, I'd be interested in anyone willing to partner up and help out with seeing what else might be able to be done about combining the animations of units and other effects to the spell results in GerikSpells. It's something where I'm sure eventually I could do it, but having someone who already knows what's what would save a ton of time.
Thanks!
I've been working to get some sort of system built in where I can show a graphic on the plot that is being highlighted for GerikSpells. I was messing around all today with using CyEngine().addColoredPlotAlt to show a texture ont the plot. This worked well enough, but the problem is you can only add five more textures to the texture file that contains all the different colored plot pictures. I was looking for a more scalable solution. The best way to do this is probably by using effects.
The effects to highlight a plot don't have to be too difficult, just placing a simple texture onto the plot would work, even if it's not animated at all. The problem is I'm useless with graphics, but I'm sure that I could slug it out if given the right path to go down.
I've scoured the forum but haven't managed to find much in terms of creating new effects. Perhaps a tutorial could be done on it?
Furthermore, I'd be interested in anyone willing to partner up and help out with seeing what else might be able to be done about combining the animations of units and other effects to the spell results in GerikSpells. It's something where I'm sure eventually I could do it, but having someone who already knows what's what would save a ton of time.
Thanks!
