Resource Cost Order

posted on February 13th, 2014, 8:22 pm

Is there a way to change the order that resource costs are displayed in the build tooltip? I would like to shift biomatter far to the right, past officers, and use it to represent time.

posted on February 15th, 2014, 12:38 pm

Yes there is,look in the misc folder for the GUI_Interface,in it you'll fine this list:

// Resource Panel
resourceDefaultCursor = "standard_cursor"
resourcePanelArea = 100 8 470 48
resourcePanel = "resourcePanel"
resourcePanelSize = 3
resourcePanel_0 = 0 0 48 48
resourcePanel_1 = 160 0 48 48
resourcePanel_2 = 320 0 48 48
resourcePanel_3 = 480 0 48 48
resource_2 = 50 4 100 26 // dilithium
resource_3 = 210 4 100 26 // Tritanium
resource_5 = 370 4 100 26 // supply
resource_4 = 530 4 100 26 // Special
resource_1 = 690 4 100 26 // credits
resource_0 = 850 4 100 26 // crew



IIRC back in A2 you could add this to the GUI_fed,borg,rom whatever race file in the same folder and I think you'll need to change where the resource icons are placed too.

If you have A2 installed take a look at the 8472 Species gui file to see how it's different from the rest,that should give you the idea of what to do.

posted on February 15th, 2014, 7:39 pm

That just changes the order that they are displayed at the top of the screen, not the order they are displayed in the tooltip when building something.

For clarity, I would like the tooltips to read dilithium cost -> latinum cost -> officer cost -> biomatter cost, and don't care about metal. They currently go dilithium cost -> latinum cost -> biomatter cost -> officer cost and changing the order on the resource panel does not change the tooltip order.

EDIT: Here's the tooltip now.

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And here's a mock up of how I want it to look.

tipideal.png (33.2 KiB) Viewed 435 times

I'm using latinum to display crew and I would like to use biomatter to display time, but it's splitting the actual resources currently.

EDIT 2: Nevermind, I figured out something weird and crazy with negative officers.

EDIT 3: Or not. Ignore edit 2.