Progressbar V2

[Moderator]

23:53, 9th Oct 2012
Kwaliti:

A quite useful little thing. Approved.

 

[Truespin Fishbrain]

Good and usefull, nothing more to say)

 

[I3lackDeath]

Excellent idea. Would be interesting to use this as a replacement for health bars aswell.

 

[JesusHipster]

I3lackDeath, there allready exists a model for health and mana bars and it has different animations. This one is simplier and it's made for different channeling spell or something of that kind.

 

[MiniMage]

Personally, I'd scale it down a bit. It just looks.. weird, being that huge.

 

[JesusHipster]

Well it's meant to be used via dummy unit, so it can be scaled however mapmaker wants it to.

 

[bisnar13]

Nice, I will use this for my Plants vs Zombies map, to show how much time left.

 

[Nolko]

Hey I didn't find that Health and mana bar you mean Retrosexual can you give me the link please ?

 

[JesusHipster]

^Here:

http://www.thehelper.net/threads/loa...e-bars.142619/

 

[APproject]

This looks way better than previous one in my opinion.

 

[HammerFist132]

Ur moedls just cannot be bad xD. Gj once more.

 

[CoLd Bon3]

Ok, the model is awesome. But i wanna use it as a health bar (or mana bar). It would have been A LOT MORE useful if you made it have like 50 animations, animation 1 = bar is 2% full, animation 20, bar is 40% full, animation 49, bar is 98% full. It will be also a lot easier to code by the user, i mean, you only have to use concatenate strings.
For example, hero has 64% health (integerVar stores the percent/2 in a variable). The action :

• Animation - Play Bar's (State + (integerVar)) animation

I don't think that a model with 50 animations is forbidden here. You can make it with 25 animations as well. It has to be 100/Number=RoundNumber.

I will be sooo thankful if you make it this way.. Even if you don't upload it. You can consider it as a request from me.

 

[WindowsVistaSucks]

This looks way better than previous one in my opinion.

Indeed.

 

[JesusHipster]

CoLd Bon3, told you that i'm too lazy for that kind of things, plus such a model allready exists, there is no need to make a new one.

 

[CoLd Bon3]

plus such a model allready exists

Where?!
EDIT: Never mind, i found them. But your looks better . Those i saw had uh.... particles? I don't know how they are called. So can i ask Uncle Fester to edit your model and make it with more animations? I am asking for your permission. Thanks in advance.

 

[JollyD]

Godlike!

 

[kellym0]

cool man--super useful and awsome!

8/10 man super chill

 

[Ralle]

Very good idea.

 

[SeekAndDestroy]

can it be a model for Health Bar?

 

[BUP]

Great model,i think i could use it...Don't worry i will put u in credit

 

[ThisPOT]

It would be possible to use it as a health bar if the bar actually started at 0%!...

Why make it start at like 10% full?

Please fix that and I will make an easy GUI health bar system for it ;o

 

[wi3122]

It would be better if you do it in only one animation of 1 second.


If the channel/casting time is 3 seconds, just set the animation speed to (1/3)%

If casting time is 99 seconds, (1/99)%

 

[JesusHipster]

It would be possible to use it as a health bar if the bar actually started at 0%!...

Why make it start at like 10% full?

It starts at zero.

It would be better if you do it in only one animation of 1 second.

Animation is exactly 1 sec long. (from 4000 to 5000 frames)

 

[wi3122]

Could you make a reverse animation? It would be perfect for some channel abilities.

 

[Lelling]

This is super nice; useful and simple ^^

 

[xorkatoss]

damn that's epic, thnx a lot, this is very useful! (+2 rep)

 

[wi3122]

I've used your model to make a suggestion in PlayDota

http://www.playdota.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1205023



I've made a test map too.

Screenshots

Thanks a lot for your model. +rep

 

[NIREX]

awesome for leveling up

 

[dimaz05]

how to use that on my map, im newbie map maker.
please tell me ?
i want make channeling skill to my model.

 

[GreeN!X]

how to use that on my map, im newbie map maker.
please tell me ?
i want make channeling skill to my model.

Try opening wi3122's test map and look at the triggers..

 

[JesusHipster]

how to use that on my map, im newbie map maker.
please tell me ?
i want make channeling skill to my model.

There is a testmap is a description.

 

[envenger]

Really nice map. I am making a cast bar system for my map using it.

Btw what is the cast time duration? I made a spell with 20 seconds and made it cast 5% speed But the cast bar is delayed?

 

[Licheus]

Really nice map. I am making a cast bar system for my map using it.

Btw what is the cast time duration? I made a spell with 20 seconds and made it cast 5% speed But the cast bar is delayed?

Maybe I'm too late out here, but if I get your question correctly you want to know how to calculate the total cast time for a spell? The trick is that there are two parameters to take into account: the "Stats - Casting Time" property of the casted spell and the "Art - Animation - Cast Point" in the unit fields of the unit casting the spell. If you add these two values you'll get to exact cast time. I think many map makers forget or are unaware of the role of the unit's cast point in all this. The cast point is like a delay that is there to sync the spell cast with the unit's spell animation.

It is simular to how the attack animation damage point field works for attack - if one wants to have a unit with extremely fast attack speed that field has to be reduced because it delays the damage or missile spawn for an attack to sync up with that particular unit type's attack animation.

I tried to explain this with trigger comments in the test map I made for the resource but maybe I didn't make it very clear.

 

[Gekigengar]

has bugs under alpha doodads, does not show the bar properly!

 

[CfWolfy]

useful little thing.....nice 5/5

 

[Haru]

Wicked work!

 

[Gekigengar]

and this hasn't been fixed yet..?

 

[Spinken]

Amazing! Really appriciate this, thanks!

 

[Melodia]

Why the frame doesn't display in game???

 

[JesusHipster]

Why the frame doesn't display in game???

How come? It does display alright.

and this hasn't been fixed yet..?

Unfixeable.

 

[Deleted member 219079]

How come? It does display alright.

for me, it doesn't

 

[JesusHipster]

for me, it doesn't

I am no oracle. Under what conditions doesn't it work?

 

[Deleted member 219079]

Oh d*mn, I meant these: http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/models-530/hp-mp-bars-249492/
For those the frame disappears in certain angles, this works perfectly fine (only thing is the system that I use atm doesn't load the bar to the maximum but that's not up to you I guess)

This one is perfect, nice job 5/5

 

[JesusHipster]

Oh d*mn, I meant these: http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/models-530/hp-mp-bars-249492/
For those the frame disappears in certain angles, this works perfectly fine (only thing is the system that I use atm doesn't load the bar to the maximum but that's not up to you I guess)

This one is perfect, nice job 5/5

Alright, cool. But i still would like to know when and how do they dissapear, in order to fix it :c

 

[Deleted member 219079]

Here:

It's so minimal it won't prevent me from using it, but the border frame disappears on some angles.

I'm guessing it's a flaw which you can't remove anyway (up to wc3)..

 

[JesusHipster]

I know about this small glitch. It's unfixeable and way too small to be noticeable

 

[Melodia]

I am no oracle. Under what conditions doesn't it work?

1.21b version))00

1.26 is o.k.

 

[JesusHipster]

1.21b version))00

1.26 is o.k.

Weird.

 

[rulerofiron99]

Stops moving for any animation speed below 2%, making it unusable for e.g. a construction or upgrade progress indicator.

Is that something that can be fixed, or is that just one of Blizzard's many annoying little oversights?

Love the model btw.