Altering a specific unit's overhead status bar

[J2Krauser]

Hi.

By overhead status bar, I mean the health/mana bar above a unit. I'm well aware that I could just get rid of the bars, and make my own, then make them look as janky as I wanted. What I'm interested in is if there's a way to fiddle with the stock ones. I've been trying to cook up a solution using the new UI natives, but at this point I'm starting to doubt these bars are even counted as UI elements. And if they are, I found no way to supplement some native a unit ID or something similar to access one specific set of bars.

 

[Boar]

ye na you can't. Ran into the same problem in a deception map I'm working on.
But I did find a way to hide the status bar entirely for a single unit. You could do that and add your own implementaiton.

The trick is using the new unit name set natives and settings it's name to "|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n"

 

[J2Krauser]

ye na you can't. Ran into the same problem in a deception map I'm working on.
But I did find a way to hide the status bar entirely for a single unit. You could do that and add your own implementaiton.

The trick is using the new unit name set natives and settings it's name to "|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n|n"

I thought it might be impossible to access specific ones. Anyway, that trick looks interesting, I suppose you're talking about BlzSetUnitName.

 

[Boar]

I thought it might be impossible to access specific ones. Anyway, that trick looks interesting, I suppose you're talking about BlzSetUnitName.

Yup.

 

[J2Krauser]

Yup.

Doesn't seem to hide the bar for me. It doesn't seem to do anything besides changing the name, so at least it seems to be one of the few things working properly in the editor.

 

[Boar]

Doesn't seem to hide the bar for me. It doesn't seem to do anything besides changing the name, so at least it seems to be one of the few things working properly in the editor.

Oh, you wanted to hide the Health / Mana bar? Yeah this just hides unit name and player name from showing up at the top.

 

[J2Krauser]

Oh, you wanted to hide the Health / Mana bar? Yeah this just hides unit name and player name from showing up at the top.

Yeah, I was getting hopeful I would be able to at least remove only specific bars by unit. I know EnablePreSelect(true, false) removes them, but it does it globally, and also removes tooltips which I don't care much about, and pre-selection circles which I would care about.

I also know about setting a unit's Art - Selection Scale to -1, which isn't as loaded, and only removes the bar from that specific unit-type, however, this one makes the selection circle glitch out.

All in all, this is why I asked the question, hoping someone would have a solution to access the stock status bar above a specific unit, but I suppose the same way I couldn't find a way, nobody else could because it looks impossible to do with what we have.

 

[ThompZon]

it looks impossible to do with what we have.

Yeah, it's impossible as far as I know