Dynamic Slanted Unitframe Bar Textures?

[tenub]

Any idea how to do this?

[Seerah]

I have no clue what you mean by "dynamic", but that's entirely possible using a custom statusbar texture.

[tenub]

Meaning the slant is dynamic rather than static, ie. it moves when the health value updates.

Bad & easy to achieve:


Good & what I'm asking about:

[Aprikot]

I can't offer a solution, but I remember looking at screenshots from zork's ringmod, and wondering how he made the spark truly radial. Maybe applicable, maybe not.

[tenub]

Yeah I remember that and I'd think something as simple as this would be very easy to achieve. We just need to know how.

[Foxlit]

Mess with TexCoord transformations. In particular, moving the upper left corner further left and the lower right corner out further right might provide the desired effect.

[Nillerr]

I would use two frames of the shaped texture, then cut the edges it instead of reducing the width using SetTexCoord.

[jaliborc]

Make 3 tga files:

• The white edge (a white irregular triangle)
• The red edge (a red irregular triangle)
• The white to red edge (where the white meets the red; two triangles of different colors)

Code 5 textures (from left to right):

• The white edge
• A white rectangle
• The white to red edge
• A red rectangle
• The red edge

You simply need to change the rectangles sizes according to the health you want to display.

On a side note, the "red to white edge" can be done programmatically by using the "white edge" and the "red edge" again (and rotating them).