[UI] Great Person Info Panel

[Valkrionn]

As promised, my Great Person Panel is now available.


What does this mod do?

Basically, this is my answer to the GP bar added in the BUG mod for Civ4. It is far more useful, however, as it is capable of displaying data for each and every city, in one convenient display.

I've added a new panel type to the UI, selectable alongside the Tech/Unit/City panels. On this panel, each GP type receives it's own (minimize-able) section, listing any cities with progress towards that GP. These sections can be sorted by City Name, or Remaining Turns, and display a progress bar overlaid with the amount of points you receive each turn, and the remaining turns. Mouseover displays the progress in numerical form.

Left-clicking on a city instance (anywhere for that instance, including the bar!) will open that city screen. Right-clicking will jump to the city on the map.

I have also included ArgentumStudio's Resource Info Panel, as the two mods would normally conflict and I don't like to play without it.


And now, because pictures are always better:

Credits

• ArgentumStudios, whose work provided a few helpful pointers and is included in the mod.
• BlakeTheGreat, from whom I pilfered several useful calculations.

Download and Changelog

• v3 - Initial release

 

[Valkrionn]

One thing I should add: This is a modcomp, and any modders who wish to use it have my free permission to do so. All I request is that credit be given.

 

[Sneaks]

Washingto!

I'd fix the string length to be a bit bigger.
Also, I would expand the tooltip mouseover to explain the LClick and RClick functions.

As for InfoCorner, I will look into creating a UIAddinSystem similar to DiploCorner now so we can avoid all conflicts in the future.

 

[Sneaks]

Also! Permission to add this to the giant mess that is CCMAT II pretty please.

 

[Valkrionn]

Yeah, I noticed that while taking the screenshots and plan to add a few characters to it. Have room, just don't want to allow overlaps.

And sounds awesome.

 

[Zyxpsilon]

Superb, now got back to Rife - that's an order!

But not before having considered these two for Buttons instead of a default City...

 

[Sneaks]

Not a huge fan of the color schemes on those ones.

 

[Sneaks]

I would keep the scheme simple, like these guys:

or gray-scale

Obviously to higher quality than these quick things.

 

[Valkrionn]

Yeah, I'd agree with sneaks. I'd like a new texture for the bars too, but eg. That color works without being too garish or making it difficult to read.

Sneaks, mind if I use those? Assuming not, but always good to ask.

 

[Sneaks]

Go right ahead. I literally threw the golden age notification over one of the generic notification backgrounds.

 

[Valkrionn]

Ah, just saw the note about the quality. On the phone atm. I'll probably throw some together tonight, just been avoiding it.

 

[Sneaks]

The quality will probably look just fine if you simply throw those icons on a black background, to be honest.

 

[Valkrionn]

Yeah, and I may still use it. Just want it highres for other reasons

 

[Zyxpsilon]

Alright gimme a few minutes, i'll be right back....

These use "Perspective" tricks to tell them apart from the regular Notifications GA-Starts. You might think they're off-center too, but don't be fooled, the 3D top shadowing is in direct context. And since they're actually at the bottom of InfoPanel, bof - i'm exaggerating once again.
Call it the 'artist' flaw of abstraction & details

(PS; At first i thought the "Font-Icons" tiny version were indicative of multiple GPs and since your progress bars were Green - oh well, nevermind!)

 

[Pouakai]

Looks great, gonna download this

 

[Zyxpsilon]

All that's missing is a specific "section" for the next Four... global such as what BlakeTheGreat did and you're done!

 

[Valkrionn]

All that's missing is a specific "section" for the next Four... global such as what BlakeTheGreat did and you're done!

There's no need for that; you can sort by turns remaining (and this is default), so the first item in a list will be the next GP.

 

[Zyxpsilon]

I feel sooooo silly for asking, some intuitive proper testing on the stuff should have been done before opening my big mouth.
Probably too busy with everything else that's new, i'm as stunned as everybody else - i guess!

 

[Valkrionn]

This will not be updated further after the next patch, for obvious reasons.

 

[killmeplease]

wgat about additional 'All great people' category
looking like
washington: great artist 15 turns
boston: great engineer 18 turns
new yourk: great artist 23 turns