Port of the 4 rows per build page UI from Uprising

jonwil · Rocket Cyborg **Joined**: 24 Jul 2005

On my downloads page at www.cncmods.net, there is some hacked UI files that port across the UI from Uprising giving you 4 rows of build items per structure (i.e. 3 across by 4 down instead of 3 by 3 as in vanilla RA3)

Hopefully these files will help out modders. Oh and boy did it take a while to get the math right for some things (especially the yellow border around the edge)

EVA-251

jonwil wrote:

On my downloads page at www.cncmods.net, there is some hacked UI files that port across the UI from Uprising giving you 4 rows of build items per structure (i.e. 3 across by 4 down instead of 3 by 3 as in vanilla RA3)

Hopefully these files will help out modders. Oh and boy did it take a while to get the math right for some things (especially the yellow border around the edge)

You never cease to amaze. Excellent job, I think a lot of modders will be very pleased to know this.

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Lt Albrecht · Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 5:50 pm Post subject:

...and carno will be appauled as you've made remakes so much easier #Tongue

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TX1138 · Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 1:33 am Post subject:

Works like a charm #Tongue

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Over9000 · Civilian **Joined**: 02 Sep 2009

Sorry to resurrect an old topic with my first post, but I've been having trouble with this.

I'm relatively knew to coding for RA3, and I wasn't sure what I was actually meant to do to get the new UI into RA3. I tried simply building the Mod with the new UI folders and files etc from the given download, but the game crashes whenever a map loads.

I've also tried (and failed, many many times ...) to follow jonwil's tutorial http://www.cncmods.net/forums/index.php?t=msg&th=169&start=0&S=1845216b7a2b6d5e8101078631d4a98f. I've never use command prompt's before, I've done a little research and asked a friend to help, but I just get stuck on step 8.

Can anyone give me an idiot-proof explanation of how to port the UI across? Just something more newb-friendly would be of great help.

Would I need the latest version (v3) of the Mod SDK? or is v2 compatible with it?

slye_fox · Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 8:12 am Post subject:

v3 of the SDK seems to mess up the UI (it's fine with v2).

In v3 you have to include the 3 xml files in your mod.xml file if you wan the 4 rows.
But in v3, the new art files arn't included.

I've yet to figure out how to get this working properly.

In v2, you just put the AptUI folder into your mod's data directory.

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Guest · Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:36 am Post subject:

slye_fox, do you mean that you've made it work for the v2 of the mod sdk and not v3? or not at all?

I must have reinstalled the sdk a good few times by now. I copy the samplemod as a working basis, change the AptUI folder for the one that jonwil provides, but then the game just dies once a map loads up. I don't know what I'm doing wrong =\

Over9000 · Civilian **Joined**: 02 Sep 2009

Whoops, that was me. Forgot to log in.

Bibber · Disk Thrower **Joined**: 31 Aug 2007 **Location**: Germany

It still works fine with SDK v3. I don't know why you have problems to get it working.
Just for some checks: Could you attach your defaultscript.cs from your SDK folder here, please?

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Over9000 · Civilian **Joined**: 02 Sep 2009

SUCCESS! I did it XD

Lord I feel like such an idiot now. It was such a simple fix that was staring me in the face the whole time. When I ported the new UI folders across, I hadn't changed the XML files to read the XML files in MY directories, as they were still in jonwil's directories.

/dance

Thanks anyway guys =]