looking for a better GUI/interface

[_Omega_]

hi

not sure if i am here really right so tell me if i am in the wrong section here

like in the title i am looking for a better interface. something like in Starcraft 2. that you can control more units instead of just the standard 12. since i play with a unit limit of 999 it doesn't help me much if i can only control 12 units at a time with an army of 30-40(i'm a big fan of undead and summoned units). also it would be great to have the grouping menu from SC2. knows was there to make that possible

 

[Uncle]

Gonna go ahead and assume that bypassing the standard unit selection is impossible. However, you can recreate the control group UI that SC2 uses with the BlzFrame natives. This requires Jass or Lua knowledge.

These will help you get started with the UI:

The Big UI-Frame Tutorial

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Warcraft 3 Reforged UI Designer (RUID)

Warcraft III Reforged UI Designer (v2.6.1) Discord Link Github Repository Link A tool made to create User Interface designs and systems for Warcraft 3 Maps without code. The application terminates the need for coding in favor of creating draggable graphical elements to express the design. Its...

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You'll then need a system for tracking units and managing the UI as new units are added and old units die off.

An array of Unit Groups stored inside of a Hashtable using the numbers 1-9 as Parent Keys sounds like a good plan. Then link each unit to it's Unit Group by storing those numbers directly to the unit (Hashtable again). So when a unit dies you can get all of it's Unit Group numbers, find all of those Unit Groups in the Hashtable using those numbers, and then proceed to Remove the unit from each Unit Group.

Also, there are other ways to mass control units without bypassing the limit, for example, you could make it so pressing Alt or some hotkey when issuing an Attack/Move order will issue that order to all of your "army" units. Again, this would involve Unit Groups but is actually fairly easy to setup.

 

[_Omega_]

well i can look for something like that. i did already look fo GUIs but all i fount was only themes. wondering whey they named it custom GUI....