A Pitbull Question..It'll Maul Your Face Off.

[AwdBawl]

Yo, a relatively simple question.

I know it's possible to color the health bar by class, easy. My question is, is there any way I can get Pitbull the color the health bar BACKGROUND by class? It'd add loads of aesthetic value to my up-and-coming UI.

Any ideas? If it's not possible at this time, then I can always swing by the Pitbull page and drop them a hint. Thanks a ton.

[Psychophan7]

There is. Pitbull 3 (and PB4) color the background by class if you have enabled the option to color the bar by class. The background is roughly 70% darker, though.

If you want the background to be lighter, you'll have to do it manually:

For Pitbull 3:
-> Global Settings -> Colors -> Classes
Copy the RGB values down. The RGB value I have for priests (like my main), for example, is 255/255/222

-> Player -> Bars -> Health -> Custom Background Color
Click 'enable' and fill the RGB value in. Tinker with it as needed.

This won't work nicely for the party frames, or any other non-player frame.

[AwdBawl]

Originally Posted by Psychophan7 This won't work nicely for the party frames.

Haha..thanks for the help. Unfortunately, this was my aim: to have custom class background colors for any player I target, or any party/raid frames in my UI. I understand this is one of Grid's abilities and I just wondered if PB shared the same functionality.

I'll check the PB4 options as suggested. Thanks again.

[Psychophan7]

Heh, I was just leaving that as a note that I as checking PB4's options. I edited my post after I did.

I did find a way to make the background be lighter, though. Or any color permutation.

Caution: Involves changing the LUA file!

Open pitbull.lua, goto line 1183:

function FakeStatusBar_methods:SetBackgroundColor(br, bg, bb)
        self.bgR, self.bgG, self.bgB = br or false, bg or false, bb or false
        if not br then
                local r, g, b = self.fg:GetVertexColor()
Line 1183 ->    self.bg:SetVertexColor((r + 0.2)/3, (g + 0.2)/3, (b + 0.2)/3)
        else
                self.bg:SetVertexColor(br, bg, bb)
        end
end

Change the underlined values to what you'd like them to be. Be careful changing the 0.2 numbers. What you should focus on are the 3s. Change it to 2 and the backgrounds will be 50% darker. Change it to 1 and there will be no change in brightness.

You also might want to add this after line 1183, so you know where to look if you break something:

-- self.bg:SetVertexColor((r + 0.2)/3, (g + 0.2)/3, (b + 0.2)/3)
-- Default values for the line 1183