Changing HUD stats

[cr0wBeak]

I've seen that one of the Defense of the Ancients maps manages to manipulate the HUD and replace the lumber and upkeep sections with other information.

Now this has me wondering: how can I do something similar? I'm making a scenario myself in the world editor and would love to replace Lumber with something else I'd like to keep track of, such as how many creep camps there currently are on the map. Any ideas on how to achieve such an effect?

 

[Chaosium]

It's in Advanced > Game Interface, you can edit lines like these and replace the icons/texts with your own

That's assuming you're not using lumber for anything in your map, then you can easily add/remove lumber to the player to keep track of integers

 

[cr0wBeak]

That works! Thank you for the assistance, I don't know how I failed to notice it at first

 

[Uncle]

Also, if you're on version 1.31+ you have access to custom UI frame logic, but it's only accessible in code form.

Here's an example of both a custom Error message as well as a custom Upkeep frame:

[Solved] - Is there a way to tie the Upkeep messages to something other than food count?

So basically I'm wondering if I can make the Upkeep Messages (No Upkeep, Low Upkeep, High Upkeep) pop up based on triggers or other in-game data instead of just the amount of food used. In the map I'm making I think it would be a nice quality of life to have the message display (which has been...

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You're likely only interested in the Upkeep frame which I show at the very bottom of the thread.

This design has two perks:
1) It can be updated at runtime with any text you want.
2) It hides the tooltip that appears when you mouse over it. (You could even code your own custom tooltip)

I actually use the Upkeep frame as a clock in a map I used to work on, handling everything on it's own. This freed up Gold and Lumber which allowed us to use them for other game mechanics. But the sky is the limit with these custom frames, you could literally create your own interface from scratch.