custom interface

[karland90]

how to change the tooltip (name&description) of Hero Abilities?


i found the place where i could change the icon of that command button (red cross icon), but i dint find where i could change the text.


i believe its similar to changing the text of other command buttons (attack, stop, patrol, etc). is it even possible? where does blizzard keep that text?

 

[Nichita_00]

Go in the object editor and find the abilities tab; the human tab will be open by default and you'll see a category called "heroes" click on that

Those are the hero abilities

 

[karland90]

no no (sry for not being that clear ^^")

i meant this:
how to change the tooltip?

 

[Nichita_00]

Advanced >>> Game Interface

Find the "Text" thingy

 

[Garfield1337]

Nichita,try looking yourself in "game interface"
I couldn't find that text myself,i doubt karland didn't look at it too...

 

[karland90]

well i looked it through once (and didnt find), any hint?

at the beginning of 'text' or at the end?

 

[karland90]

bump :s

 

[haxel96]

get a mpq editor, open "war3.mpq" in the editor. search for the file "units\commandstrings.txt". press CTRL + F, type [CmdSelectSkill] and press enter, Boo Ya
if you dont understand just pm me and ill help you

 

[karland90]

well ill give it a try

 

[haxel96]

sure do that omg... i forgot, this will only change YOUR tooltip -.- not the maps

 

[karland90]

maybe i can import that txt into my map and MAYBE it can be used in map that way. maybe.

 

[haxel96]

try it

 

[ap0calypse]

maybe i can import that txt into my map and MAYBE it can be used in map that way. maybe.

Yes... that's how it works.
It's the same system as war3mapMisc.txt, war3mapExtra.txt and war3mapSkin.txt: import a file named "Units\CommandStrings.txt" in your map with all the info.

Note 1: all other tooltips will be gone, unless you also set them up in that file.
Note 2: Errors are also in that file, so they will also be gone unless you add them.

Either way, I've attached a text-file with all original strings to this post (about 11kB).

 

[karland90]

thank you very much ^^

EDIT: is it correct, that it will override those values set in the "custom interface" option too? i mean that of world editor.

 

[ap0calypse]

EDIT: is it correct, that it will override those values set in the "custom interface" option too? i mean that of world editor.

As far as I know:
war3mapExtra.txt overrides the sky/fog.
war3mapSkin.txt overrides the game interface.
war3mapMisc overrides the gameplay constants.
Units\CommandStrings.txt erases and replaces the errors and command buttons.

(with erase & replace, I mean that Attack will become "No tooltip" if you import that file without the attack-command, while all the other text-files will leave everything standard except the values you've set, so you don't need to insert all values in the other ones).

I am not 100% sure, but that's what I believe at least
Uhm... to be sure, I've attached a huge file to this post that includes all these files (I put this together a while ago, might be useful as you can also change the font, loading screen text and a lot of other stuff with it ).

There's a small tutorial on top of the text-file, read that if you don't know how to use it

(You probably don't need all of this

 

[karland90]

nice

EDIT: btw the CommandStrings.txt you uploaded was edited version. hold postion said something about steal and attack

 

[SasaV]

OR, maybe you should try to search before you post? Maybe if you would read the sticky thread: http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/world-editor-help-zone-98/how-quickly-find-answer-your-problem-91720/

I started a thread asking the same thing: http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/world-editor-help-zone-98/hero-abilities-text-changing-136734/

 

[Adiktuz]

isnt there are place to change that in the Game Interface - Texts?

 

[Arisato]

nope, you can search it for ten days ten nights ten hours and ten seconds , but you still won't find it, coz i searched that too ~~ o_o