Making The Food Panel Display something other than the Food usage / limit?

[hellblazer-14]

Hey there guys!

I have a bit of a problem with my altered melee map...
I want to replace the entire FOOD display with a GOLD display, that is, I want to remove the text showing the amount of food (units you can support) and food usage, and replace it with 1 set of numbers, for Gold.

I also want to change all the info displays that pop up (description up top and down by the unit control panel) so that they say what the gold panel would usually say.

The reason i want to do this, is because i have replaced the resource GOLD with STONE, and left Lumber as it is, in the hope to add a whole new resource to the game. I have managed to remove the Upkeep with custom text, but I have no idea how to make food work, and I have tried everything

Please see if you can help me, I'm really desperate XD

Hellblazer-14

[Squiggy]

uh go to gameplay constants and search first under icon for the respective gold icon. if you want, you can also remove the text which is shown if you hover over the gold amount you own, you know what i mean ^^
if my we would be englich, i could tell you what yu have to change but it's not so i only can give tips :(

[hellblazer-14]

oh hai squiggy!!!

Well, I have already replaced gold with stone, its replacing food with gold that is the problem.

I have a income trigger for gold, but I don't know how to change the food text display that is on the top right of the screen :/ but thanks for your help!

[Squiggy]

aww shit.. don't do drugs >.<
i apologize

[hellblazer-14]

LoL? Well thanks for the help ;p

[Mechanical Man]

Nope. You can't. If you want the food panel act as a resource, you'll have to make it with heavy triggering. Good part is that the purchasing units will have also the food cost shown too, but the bad parts are that you're limited with resource and inability to remove that second number displaying max number of the resource/food. I'll try to do something like this in my map, I may contact you, if I'll be done.

[hellblazer-14]

Ok, well I knew there would be triggering involved, I have the triggers ALL thought out :p

Thank you for telling me that. I will attempt my best to make it work. What map are you making???

[Mechanical Man]

Nothing special, is something like those ZOMG LOLZ HEROZ maps. I'll show you when I'm done.

But now I have to think what to use as a dummy unit to increase max food and where to place it. The dummy unit should add 1 food and being invisible and unnoticeable.

[hellblazer-14]

why not just use a trigger - set pl 1 max food to (current pl 1 max food + 1)
???

That should work fine...