Location?

[AVGWarhawk]

Where is the location of the textures for the interface in the game....meaning the fun little buttons we press at the bottom of the screen:hmm: I have seen them once but for the life of me can not find them again

[Ducimus]

data/menu/gui if memory serves me correctly, or somewhere there abouts.

[AVGWarhawk]

That is it! Thank you sir!

[AVGWarhawk]

Now, this is what I'm ATTEMPTING to do . With the added buttons on the interface, they lack a little picture of what the button does. I want to create a picture of the function. Say for instance, the button for weather is blank. I want to create a picture for the button indicating it is the weather button. Right now it is nice to have words pop up for what it does but these blank buttons could use a picture in it. How would I associate the buttons with the pictures I create? Is is possible? Do I sniff to much glue?

[Digital_Trucker]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

How would I associate the buttons with the pictures I create? Is is possible? Do I sniff to much glue?

I asked myself the same question when I started playing around adding buttons and did a lot of until I got it figured out. As far as associating the icons with a particular button, there is a basic array of icons on the ...Data\Menu\Gui\Layout\HUD.dds file. They are on the right side of the graphic. The icon section (enlarged for clarity) that I used on my MHSMC looks like this:



In the ....Data\Menu\Cfg\OrdersBar.cfg file, where you define the buttons used on the HUD, you will find a line for each button that looks like this :

Button2IconRowColumn=1,2

This is the icon reference for the crash dive button. As you can see it refers to the first row, second column of the array of icons. There are 9 rows of 21 columns that you can use for icons.

The trick with the icons is that the areas that you want to show up on the button must be part of the alpha channel and the parts where you want the button to show through must be deselected in the alpha channel.

If you are using Photoshop, go to the Select menu bar option and select "Load Selection..", then chose Alpha 1 (which should be the default) and you will see selected all of the parts of the icons that show up on the buttons. Then you can use the add selection tool to add the portions of any new icons that you want to use.

[Ducimus]

You don't have enough button icons man. I think you need a few more!

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by Digital_Trucker

I asked myself the same question when I started playing around adding buttons and did a lot of until I got it figured out. As far as associating the icons with a particular button, there is a basic array of icons on the ...Data\Menu\Gui\Layout\HUD.dds file. They are on the right side of the graphic. The icon section (enlarged for clarity) that I used on my MHSMC looks like this:



In the ....Data\Menu\Cfg\OrdersBar.cfg file, where you define the buttons used on the HUD, you will find a line for each button that looks like this :

Button2IconRowColumn=1,2

This is the icon reference for the crash dive button. As you can see it refers to the first row, second column of the array of icons. There are 9 rows of 21 columns that you can use for icons.

The trick with the icons is that the areas that you want to show up on the button must be part of the alpha channel and the parts where you want the button to show through must be deselected in the alpha channel.

If you are using Photoshop, go to the Select menu bar option and select "Load Selection..", then chose Alpha 1 (which should be the default) and you will see selected all of the parts of the icons that show up on the buttons. Then you can use the add selection tool to add the portions of any new icons that you want to use.

Yep, I have photo shop. I will give this a try. I suspect I can create my button pictures on this .tga and then make the association to the new picture? You stated 9 rows of 21 channels. Perhaps I can not add more channels or rows.?