[General] how to change the interface without changing the race?

[stan0033]

Is there a way to change the interface of a human race player to night elf interface?

 

[Malhorne]

You can set up the race to elf, delete starting units and put human starting unit instead ^^

 

[gabriono]

You can do that -but it will change will take effect for all races and players- in Advance -> Game Interface

 

[Tal'Rarity]

Yeah however it would be easier just to use night elf.

You can do this by exporting the night elf interface models then importing them back in under the name of humans to replace them.

 

[Zeatherann]

Sadly, this setting will overwrite the interface for every player, regardless of race; Advanced -> Gameplay Interface -> Image - Console Texture 1

 

[Dr Super Good]

In WC3 interfaces are based on the race the player choose/was chosen to be. These each have unique art which can be overwritten using imports. As such if you replace all human UI assets with NE UI assets they will look NE even when playing as human. Obviously this is a global modification so all Humans will look like NE players afterwards. Notifications can be replaced in the same way.

In SC2 the UI system is a lot more flexible and you could probably do the swap with a few trigger calls. One of the many improvements that were made.

 

[Tal'Rarity]

Basically your stuck with a choice of four preset interfaces in WC3. Yeah SC2 did that better with those many improvements... They however lacked in several area's and forgot to add what made WC3 epic. Readability and the simple ability to do anything you want without spending days on. Too bad... otherwise I would of called it a superior game. More power yet less power if the path to learning it is so vast.

 

[Zeatherann]

Moral of this story is that there is way to do it only for certain players.

 

[Dr Super Good]

In single player custom UI elements can be deployed by having floating unit models positioned in-front of the player camera. In multiplayer this probably does not work too well as getting camera position and orientation require synchronization. This also does not affect the standard UI in any way.

 

[Tal'Rarity]

It seems to work fine in multiplayer, just have to know what your doing. It might be a little glitchy though. Looking for the map that did this before.

edit2: http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/2513644-post8.html looks like its able to be done just fine in multiplayer.

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