How to Use the New GameHeart

Bugs

1. The minivan text was a message I placed while testing the maps in order to know which module version it was running since battle.net gives you no other way of knowing. But it was removed last week before RBBG so did you take this screenshot then?

2. The logo display issue is because your graphics settings are ridiculously low. Your effects setting needs to be set to high or better (as I mentioned in this blog).

3. The screen angle and zoom level can be adjusted? I don't understand how that is a bug?

4. The units lost display has nothing to do with GHLight. But be sure to post that in the GameHeart thread or in the interfaces thread when we finally make one (which will be soon).


Suggestions

5. This maybe could be done through an interface file. But the game clock is not something GHLight has control over.

6. I won't be adding the map name as a texture below the tournament logo. I don't really care for the idea. Hopefully we will be able to bring map intros back someday so the map name is more prevalent in GameHeart broadcasts though. Most interfaces already include the map name so this seems rather pointless to me anyways.

7. This is again an interface issue and has nothing to do with GHLight. And since all of the GameHeart interfaces put dark backgrounds behind their text and numbers I am not sure what the point of this is anyways.

8. I have no control over the production icons appearing above or below flying units. Removing the border would not improve anything. The border isn't there to emphasize the players color (though that is a positive side effect) it is there because without it the icons become very difficult to see against the building. While I think it is good that Blizzard is finally adding team decal support I don't really want to go the direction of floating 3D stuff the way they have.

9. Progress bars and the icons are not interconnected. There is no way to keep them in a position relative to each other that I have found. And when we have tried in the past it just became confusing what unit the progress bar or the icon was for depending on which one we moved. It doesn't work that well in practical application.

10. I will have to talk to Pzea about team colors on morphing archons.

11. What hotkey tabs? What are we talking about? GHLight is not an interface file, it is a custom map.

12. I don't think this is something we need for SC2 spectating. Once people understand the positions relative to the clock it is not very difficult to connect each base with it's position. Maybe if interface designers ever remove the minimap from their interfaces regularly this might be a decent idea.

13. It may not be a bad idea to make creep tumors transparent, I will look into it.

14. The effect would be too obnoxiously large I think.

15. I currently cannot do this in GHLight because I cannot detect what an observer has selected. Observers cannot send information to the custom map to trigger events in the code.

1. This is related to the observer having a default observed ID. There is actually another issue with this where you cannot see the harvester count in a refinery unless you switch to the player's vision. I have been looking for a solution but I haven't found one yet.

2. Some units in the game appear to be bugged where sometimes when you tell them to reset themselves to their default texture they become colored strangely. The spire/greater spire is one of those units, the missile turret is another. In any case the spire had been receiving a texture reset message it shouldn't have and I fixed that immediately after RBBG.

Minimap:

1. Not sure there is anything we can do about this other than make the minimap larger.

2. The green border is part of the minimap for Starcraft 2 by default. It is always their for terran or neutral player interfaces. For zerg it is orange, and for protoss it is blue.

3. We cannot change this on a map specific basis and I certainly would not want to stretch the map so that the ratio of heigh to width is inaccurate.


Main Window:

4. Very few interfaces work correctly for more than 2 players and we certainly do not plan to make this one available for more than two players.

5. The percentage of games where players have neuraled an opponents builder and then actually got to the point where they are researching upgrades for the other race are very slim. There is no fix for this and I am not concerned with it. And again 2v2 IS NOT supported for any of our interface files at this time. Any interface for more than 2 players needs to pretty much be designed for that purpose.

6. We are already going to be toning down those colors because of other feedback we have received.

7. This is not possible.

8. How does that make it more consistent with the rest of the interface? Where else do icons appear in a different order? In any case I don't see any reason to change it, I like it this way.

9. I don't know what you mean. The lobby does not control interface files at all. You would need a different version of the interface file to do this.

10. This is not possible.

11. While I do hate the clan tags I only feel that way because they didn't exist for so long that most players already have clan tags in their names. So when displayed in an interface they will have double clan tags. This is stupid. But the interface files we design are supposed to function outside of the gameheart maps as well so I don't want to make decisions based on the custom maps.


Unit Selection:

1, This is not possible to my knowledge but I am not an expert on the interface files.

2. What resolution are you running with the interface file?

3. Thanks.

4. Thanks.

5. Strange we will look into it.

6. Interesting idea. Not sure if it is possible would have to ask Ahli.

7. Not possible.

8. Thanks.

9. I like it like this. Though the hp label could be raised up a bit.

10. Most upgrades have diegetic elements demonstrating whether or not the player has them. The observer can always open the upgrades window as well.

11. Change it how?

12. Not sure if possible will have to ask Ahli.

13. Not sure if possible will have to ask Ahli.


Resources:

14. I don't see any reason to remove it. A structures lost tab could be cool though.

15. Ehh I don't like this idea. It will make the interface feel weird I think.


Income:

16. I don't see any reason to remove it.

17. Interesting idea we will consider it.

18. Interesting idea we will consider it.


Spending:

19. I am not even sure what it is by default anymore, but whatever it is I designed it to be in that order for a reason.


Units:

20. You CANNOT design these interfaces worrying about neural parasite or they will all look like shit. It's just the reality of the situation. We need to make them look good in 99.9% of games. Not the .1% that has someone building a second race worth of units with neural.

21. Not possible.


Structures:

22. Not possible.

23. Not concerned.

24. Nothing to do with us.

25. Will need to talk to Ahli


Units Lost:

26. I don't think we have control over this.

27. Good idea.


Production:

28. I don't think this has anything to do with us. But I would have to ask Ahli. Maybe it is just a bug in starcraft? How does it look in other interfaces?

29. They are probably the same size but the color makes them appear different to your eye.

30. Strange but I don't think it has anything to do with our interface file.

31. Again will need to talk to Ahli about it, and again the reason these interfaces have 1v1 in the name is because they are designed for 1v1 and not 2v2.

32. Not possible.

33. Not sure if possible will have to look into it.


Upgrades:

34. I do not understand what you are trying to show me.

35. I do not believe we can override these icons.

36. Fixed last week.

37. That sounds bad will need to tell Ahli.


Forces:

38. Will tell Ahli.

39. Ehhhh maybe.


APM/EPM:

40. Thanks.

41. An oversight.

You are not using version 1.62. You are using 1.60, I assume. 1.62 has dots at the upgrades and 1.61 fixed the label positions to better support 3-digit unit death counts.


This is not possible, as far as I know. There is no player ID for "current selected player".



Impossible. I can only tell the game which size the minimap has. I can't make it fill out the whole space. It always displays the correct dimensions.


2+ players don't use "Left" and "Right" player identifications. Therefore I would require to code everything for all slots (1,2,3,4,...) and pray that the players are indeed using these slots.


14 slots would take up a huge portion of the screen... That's a lot of screen space wasted in most games played.

Not possible. The trick used to show the weapon and armor upgrades only works because these upgrades have a label.


The Lobby shouldn't be able to alter the UI. Else you are nearly hardcoding the UI into the game which is not the purpose of gameheart light. It adds features to the game that the interface can use, in case it is within the scope of an interface.


Not possible in interfaces.


This should already be included. Try pressing "ctrl + shift + c" like Clan to toggle the clan tag usage.



It's displaying what Blizzard considered to be part of the simple command card. Other elements are not displayed. It might be possible to edit these settings for the observers in the game mod, though.



All textual information about the unit is actually a single label. I can't format the displayed text. I've used a trick to make it appear properly with a resolution of 1920x1080 and an enUS localization. Different ones can cause these problems.
I'm not able to alter the texts, so the locale wouldn't matter anymore, but the game doesn't read the values I want to use. Testing in the editor lets me edit these texts, but when the interface is really used on battle.net, the texts are not applied to the game.



You should ask Blizzard about it. Interfaces can't alter game data and this is caused by game data.


I've noticed that myself today. It's a SC2 bug. There is no unit selected, but it didn't clear the command card data. I think this happens when you switch the observed player, but I'm not sure.


I wish I could...


Out of reach of the interface. Requires game data changes and the gameheart mod shouldn't tinker too much with that as it limits other interfaces.


They use the new font, but the old tooltips. It works fine in testing in the editor, but on battle.net the game doesn't fully use the data for the tooltips for some reason. I assume it is a "bug" in sc2 as it works fine in editor tests and it should read the same background image information as all other tooltips.


Do you have a suggestion?
Btw, I can't reverse the progress bar as it's not possible to rotate them.


That's not possible with gameheart light and interfaces as the spectator is a real spectator and its selection cannot be used as input, as far as I know.


Actually, that space is kind of required for some units to look nice and I can't alter the UI based on the unit selected.


This might even be possible...


Same reason as "researchable passive upgrades in the Unit Selection Window". Spectators are no players, therefore their input cannot cause the game to run triggers/etc. Logic based on spectators is kind of impossible, as far as I know, unless the logic is always there like showing/hiding a frame showing some information.


Same as before.


It would still use the same hotkey, but it is possible. I can alter the pulldown's entry name and show whatever I want in the leaderpanel.


That requires logic. Interfaces have no logic. The mod can add logic, but it shouldn't tinker with existing UI elements as they are different for each used UI.




UI will look terrible in normal games, if I would make it support extreme situations. You would criticize overlapping then and unreadability, because images might be stretched across the screen or just appear as thin lines...




Blizzard's job. Also, creep tumors build by the queen and creep tumors that spread (They are different and both appear in production tab).


Suggest this to Blizzard, but I don't think they would change that as the defence drone is more temporary than the auto-turret, if I'm not mistaken.


You want to see all, but no overlap and good looking in low numbers? In most cases you can't realize that.
I can't filter stuff. I can show a second row, since every slot can be repositioned.



SC2 bug, go and report.


Then you can't highlight them neither as it wouldn't react to the mouse anymore. But you could suggest Blizzard to remove the logic of the button clicks for lists of lost units.


Tell Blizzard, not me.


The Player color might be the reason. I can't really do anything about that.


Queen's creep tumor is different than the other creep tumors while it is constructed. Ask Blizzard to merge those in the leaderpanel.


This interface does not support 2vs2 and I think I will hate making 2+ player interfaces in future if people nitpick this. Then there will only be default UI + small modifications where all the data goes acress all of the screen, so you can see all of it.


Not interface related and pretty much not really possible.


Consider suggesting it to Blizzard as that would make a lot of sense. This is not possible in interfaces as I can't use a font without a "1" as it would cause problems when someone produced 10 zerglings.


I can't alter images for game data stuff, I believe. It just doesn't read the images, even if I override the position. A mod might be able to apply these for everyone except for the players.



Gameheart light bug/problem. But I forgot what was necessary to hide upgrades from the leaderpanel.




Will fix that.




Uhm... interesting. I will check if there is another score value that displays the correct information for max supply, in case the supply value won't be removed.



I need to check that out. Might be a problem of failing to change entries after copy pasting stuff. :D