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

[Ralph Versteegen]

On 15 May 2018 at 13:08, Ralph Versteegen <teeemcee at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

Well, I guess it would be possible to find the nearest match to color 0
amongst colors 1-255. The same hack that's also done with uiShadow, which
can't be 0.


>
> 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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