Skinning the ping?

[Kaitech[SanD]]

Hey everybody...

Just a small question that you might all kill me for for it being so small...

Is it possible to skin the ping little thingies? In GIMP they just show as a totally invisible thing, in TGA ofc...

 

[blazing-inferno]

could you explain a little more? ping? are you talking about png? or alpha channels?

 

[Kaitech[SanD]]

The ping in the warcraft 3 minimap? Duh...

Alt and click?

 

[KalamMekhar]

hhmmmm interesting question i have never thought of it but it shoudl be possible.... i will see if i can find out how to do it

 

[THE_END]

It might be consisted of alpha channels
So if you can view alpha channels..check that out

 

[D a w n]

The ping will use a cursor texture or ping texture but if it uses the ping textures you would have to import 4 textures :/

the import paths for the ping textures would be:

UI\Minimap\ping#.blp (replacing # with 2-5)

or for the cursors:

UI\Cursor\#Cursor.blp (replacing # with Human/Orc/Nightelf/Undead)

 

[Kaitech[SanD]]

My question wasn't how to I import them -.-'

They're teamcolour and I need to edit the shape, it's possible, I just know it is...

 

[D a w n]

I tested to import a minimap-ping with changed textures and noticed that the engine changes the color so you just have to draw your ping =)

 

[Kaitech[SanD]]

Could you make a step by step? I think it might keep the old shape...