I give up on VitalsField
 

i have been tryin to faten the mortal bar and make it a little longer or even change the color of it with no luck. i really hope im at the right spot but u can change these #'s all ya want and doesnt do a thing.
this is just part of the code i have been workin with

the vital meters are also controlled by this chunk of code:


<PanelFile ID="ID_UISkin_VitalColorMeter">
<Element ID="VitalColorMeter" X="0" Y="0" Width="170" Height="11"></Element>
</PanelFile>

you may have to change the numbers in both places.

-P

Is it possible you may have forgotten to change the alpha channel on the vital's skin?

..just an idea

ill give that a shot i may have skipped over the vital color id but i was allover the text file and had everything in 1 doc containing the vitals id. ill run thu it 1 more time and give that a shot.

nope its a no go u cant even move the power meter away from the health meter u can change y value all ya want it still dont move the meter
<Element ID="PowerField" X="0" Y="25" Width="200" Height="20">
im using the
<PanelFile ID="ID_UISkin_RealVitalsField">
<PanelFile ID="ID_UISkin_RealVitalText">
<PanelFile ID="ID_UISkin_RealVitalTextSmall">
<PanelFile ID="ID_UISkin_VitalColorMeter">
in my xml none of these seem to do anything
isnt alpha channel only in (PSD), PDF (Photoshop 6.0 only), PICT, TIFF, and RAW format not in tga?

Nope it's in tga's as well. It was the secret to allow me to make a square portrait. First I tried to just add the "base box" border artwork from Brygard2007's Black Glass Mix skin to my player_vitals_backdrop like so:


But it would still show up ingame as the same old shape (rounded):


Then I discovered the alpha channel. Lets take another look at the player_vitals_backdrop file, but just the alpha channel:


Ah-Ha! The alpha channel is like a stencil! So I edited my alpha channel for the shape I wanted:


Which gave me this ingame:


I also noticed these parts in the skin dictionary that might also need editing to effect the size of the vitals:

So I bet there's a few spots in the skins def where you need to change the values, then I think you need to edit your alpha channel to show those changes. Hope this helps :)

hmm this dont help me at all these channel's are gone once u save it as a tga. im useing PS7

I'm using PS7 as well, and it saves the alpha channel just fine. You probably dont have a checkmark next to "Alpha Channels" in the save options for PS7.

not sure if this explains what im into but this is showing using org player_vitals_backdrop with my xml lay out.

My PS7 is broken then built this new pc 3 weeks ago or is there something im missing