Selection Cursors

posted on January 26th, 2010, 1:25 am

I was curious as to which file controls the selection sprites that appear when you select a ship. I've pulled apart just about every .spr, .cfg, and odd looking odf files that I could and nothing seems to control the selection display. I found a bit in fleetops.spr that looked like it influenced the selection sprites but after inserting my bit in there it still does not work. Maybe I typed up something wrong but this is what I added:

selectall_vra select_all_vra 0 0 512 512
@sprite_node selallvra selectall_vra const (80,80) (1,1,1) billboard

selectall_zevestivan select_all_zevestivan 0 0 512 512
@sprite_node selallzevestivan selectall_zevestivan const (80,80) (1,1,1) billboard

Any help would be much appreciated.

[Tyler]

posted on January 26th, 2010, 11:11 am

Last edited by Tyler on January 26th, 2010, 11:19 am, edited 1 time in total.

Cursor or the box around the target?

For cursors: 'cursor.spr'
For the box: Maybe the SOD directory?

posted on January 26th, 2010, 6:02 pm

Cursor or the box around the target?

For cursors: 'cursor.spr'
For the box: Maybe the SOD directory?

I refer to the box that appears around the target.

posted on January 26th, 2010, 6:47 pm

You mean the box that says for example 'Type I scan initiated' when you select a Fed Vessel? Or the red triangle border pattern for the Klingons?

posted on January 26th, 2010, 6:49 pm

You mean the box that says for example 'Type I scan initiated' when you select a Fed Vessel? Or the red triangle border pattern for the Klingons?

Yup t hat's it. I think Tyler was onto something when he said they were actually SOD files...

posted on January 26th, 2010, 6:50 pm

check the select_racename sods

posted on January 26th, 2010, 9:01 pm

yh also they use sprites which are detailed in the fleetops.spr file

posted on January 26th, 2010, 11:29 pm

yep if you want to do a FO like box, use sprites Armadalike bubbles are done with geometry, just try a few things out and you will get a feeling for whats possible