[Ohrrpgce] SVN: james/10377 Add support in battle for UI colors for Damage, Heal, Absorb, Poison, an

[Ralph Versteegen]

This is great! I know Surlaw has been begging for this for years.

Note, we have a problem with text slice colors. Unfortunately text and
other slices were implemented with 0=default color, 1-255=color from master
palette, and <=-1 typically meaning a UI color. (Implemented by ColorIndex
in loading.rbas, until recently called SliceColr)
This means that color 0 is not an option! In order to allow converting
menus to slices in the future, I used the same color numbering scheme for
menu item colors. I decided being able to use color 0 doesn't actually
matter much. This does actually have an advantage: the master palette
colors aren't offset by one, so you don't have to remember to add/subtract
one when manipulating slice or menu item colors in a script, which I'm sure
would trip many people up. And color 0 is often available as uiBackground
anyway.

The same problem now exists with converting damage text in battles to text
slices, which now seems to be impossible.

On 15 May 2018 at 10:45, <subversion at hamsterrepublic.com> wrote:

> james
> 2018-05-14 15:45:06 -0700 (Mon, 14 May 2018)
> 79
> Add support in battle for UI colors for Damage, Heal, Absorb, Poison, and
> Regen
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> U   wip/bmod.bi
> U   wip/bmod.rbas
> U   wip/bmodsubs.bas
> U   wip/whatsnew.txt
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