advancement icons

Post by **Darth Fool** » November 3rd, 2005, 3:50 pm

Over in this topic: http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic. ... highlight=
I posted an image of a mock up of a proposal for making it more obvious both what will happen when a unit levels up, and what AMLA effects are already in effect. Now that I have my laptop out of the shop again (knock on synthetic wood) I figure this is a quick and dirty job to get me back on the wesnoth coding band-wagon that will have nice quick feedback, before getting back to AI development. comments would be welcome.

Post by **Darth Fool** » November 6th, 2005, 4:03 pm

Ok, I have commited to svn trunk a patch which enables icon support indicating both possible advancements as well as advancements that have already occured. The relevant reports have been added into the dfool theme for testing and are: "unit_amla" and "unit_advancement_options".

A collage of ingame screen shots is available below. The three on the left are from real units and show how it typically will be experienced by users. Konrad shows the icon that units that can still advance normally get. the wose shows the typical AMLA tough icon that most units get when AMLAing. The necrophage has both the AMLA_TOUGH icon as well as an icon for the full heal. Note also that tool tips with the descriptions of the advancements are included, and if an icon is used more than once, then all the descriptions are part of the tool tip. So, for example, mousing over the level up icon will list all possible branches for that unit. for the advancement options, an icon is only displayed once. The AMLA icons at the top, however, do show each individual advancement that has happened (thus the two full heals on the necrophage).

The unit on the right was a custom unit designed to abuse the system. It had two level up options, and five different AMLA options, two of which used the same icon (amla_tough).
The overflow of icons is dealt with by using an ellipsis icon and appending all the tooltips that would be missed togeather into one tooltip for the ellipsis.

***Note that I have modified how reports work to deal with this overflow situation. In general, if there is more than one image in a report, and the second or later image does not fit, it will be replaced by an ellipsis, and the rest of the report will be ignored except to append the tooltips onto the ellipsis' tooltip. Currently the only place, I think, where this might happen would be if people added more status icons or made the current ones wider,
but it might be handy. The first image in a report, if it is too big for the report, will simply be scaled to fit.

I think, in principle, that this could be backported to the v1.0 branch if there is sufficient interest, as it does not effect gameplay, only the user interface.

Beleth · Post by **Beleth** » November 6th, 2005, 4:58 pm

I'm liking what I'm seeing.

Emmanovi · Post by **Emmanovi** » November 6th, 2005, 6:19 pm

Why does Konrad have 80 health BTW?

Disto · Post by **Disto** » November 6th, 2005, 8:52 pm

Darth can give Konrad 80 health if he likes!

Tomsik · Post by **Tomsik** » November 6th, 2005, 8:56 pm

With WML and/or Debug mode its not problem!

Beleth · Post by **Beleth** » November 6th, 2005, 11:03 pm

Disto wrote:Darth can give Konrad 80 health if he likes!

Amen!

Emmanovi · Post by **Emmanovi** » November 6th, 2005, 11:07 pm

I'm just confused why he has 80/32....

Cuyo Quiz · Post by **Cuyo Quiz** » November 7th, 2005, 12:33 am

Obviously he must have at least 3 lives to survive the whole "becoming king" dealie.

Beleth · Post by **Beleth** » November 7th, 2005, 3:21 am

Cuyo Quiz wrote:Obviously he must have at least 3 lives to survive the whole "becoming king" dealie.

Politics will kill you!

Post by **Viliam** » November 7th, 2005, 11:21 am

IMHO the advancement icons could use less contract colors. They should not distract attention from the other stats... for example HP which changes much more often, and is most of the time more important for player.

Post by **Darth Fool** » November 7th, 2005, 3:11 pm

Viliam wrote:IMHO the advancement icons could use less contract colors. They should not distract attention from the other stats... for example HP which changes much more often, and is most of the time more important for player.

I am in no way emotionally tied to these icons, so if you wish to make some other ones that serve the purpose, please do. Note that the icons should be 12x12.

dtw · Post by **dtw** » November 7th, 2005, 4:57 pm

I am confised by the icons above the HP - did you explain what they are?

Post by **Darth Fool** » November 7th, 2005, 6:01 pm

dibblethewrecker wrote:I am confised by the icons above the HP - did you explain what they are?

Those are the advancements(not normal level ups) that have already happened. So, whenever you choose an advancement, it will go up there. Hmm... Maybe the icons should be included in the advancement selection window as well.