Fun with multiboards

[PurgeandFire]

This is random, but it was funny so I figured I'd show you guys.

Gif

Backstory: I was wondering whether anyone would practically want to know the RGB values of multiboard items (if not, I would just throw that feature out and save a few lines of code). After this, I think it is reasonable to leave it there.

Hopefully people won't use it for rainbows as I've done (it is hypnotizing), but it could be pretty cool to modulate from dark to light to signify something e.g. a buff is expiring, a unit is dying, etc.

 

[Troll-Brain]

no gif there

 

[PurgeandFire]

Oops. Maybe it was because of the site I was using. I attached it to the hive now. Hopefully it shows up.

 

[chobibo]

It shows up, looks great. It feels like Christmas again...

 

[PurgeandFire]

It shows up, looks great. It feels like Christmas again...

Haha yeah. That reminded me that I had to change my avatar back to its former glory. No more christmas hat for him until december.

 

[WaterKnight]

A friend of mine used a multiboard as a news line in one of his maps and scrolled the text in/out like a marquee in html.

You can colorize the text via string color codes, too, but if you want to affect the whole cell and have it fading like here, it may be better to use the multiboarditem color function because of the mass of string leaks.

 

[SA Dashie]

Interesting idea.
Might throw this kind of idea in a map if I end up finishing another someday. xD

 

[Daffa]

What code you use for that Purge?

 

[gorillabull]

gui no doubt

 

[PurgeandFire]

What code you use for that Purge?

It is from a vJASS multiboard library I was writing (although, it is doable with normal multiboards too). I haven't worked on it in a bit, but it is pretty far along so maybe I'll release it eventually.

 

[Zeatherann]

I've made a disco floor like object before in C++, I never needed to get the color of a part of the disco floor, rather I used a perlin noise with cubic interpolation. It worked very nicely, provided perfect smoothing of colors as well.

 

[PurgeandFire]

I've made a disco floor like object before in C++, I never needed to get the color of a part of the disco floor, rather I used a perlin noise with cubic interpolation. It worked very nicely, provided perfect smoothing of colors as well.

That's neat. And yeah, it is not necessary to know the RGB colors. But I feel like it may be a necessary feature for completeness. hehe.