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Re: Find out faction of user in UI mod

2016-07-16T10:16:31+02:00

No sweat... generally when making UI mods you need to find an example of where it happens... including base game, faf upgrades and ui mods you can download. Another example I think is in chat it shows the faction logo next to the chat line

Statistics: Posted by nine2 — 16 Jul 2016, 10:16

Re: Find out faction of user in UI mod

2016-07-15T18:10:02+02:00

np, glad I could help

as I said, it was just a suggestion out of thin air without testing

Statistics: Posted by CookieNoob — 15 Jul 2016, 18:10

Re: Find out faction of user in UI mod

2016-07-15T17:56:22+02:00

@ SirTobi,

Thanks! This does indeed work:

Code:: local armyTable = GetArmiesTable().armiesTable local faction = armyTable[GetFocusArmy()].faction

Do not add in the () at the end, faction is just a number.

And a simple conversion function:

Code:: local Factions = {'UEF', 'Aeon', 'Cybran', 'Seraphim'}; function ConvertToFaction(factionNumber) return Factions[factionNumber + 1]; end

And I get the actual faction name.

@ Anihilnine,

Thanks! I didn't think of it, that indeed shows how it's done.
The same way as SirTobi did it.

Lots of love,
Jip

Statistics: Posted by Jip — 15 Jul 2016, 17:56

Re: Find out faction of user in UI mod

2016-07-15T16:29:00+02:00

the scores panel shows it, so look in somewhere like lua\game\ui\scores.lua

Statistics: Posted by nine2 — 15 Jul 2016, 16:29

Re: Find out faction of user in UI mod

2016-07-15T15:19:45+02:00

I cant test it right now, but it should be more or less like this:

Code:: local armyTable = GetArmiesTable().armiesTable

and then

Code:: armyTable[GetFocusArmy()].faction()

Statistics: Posted by CookieNoob — 15 Jul 2016, 15:19

Find out faction of user in UI mod

2016-07-15T15:02:33+02:00

Hello everyone,

As the last part of the mod I want a certain part of the interface to be faction dependant.
As in, for seraphim it will be yellowish, aeon greenish, etc.

However, how do I find out what faction the user is using (the name of the faction, aka: aeon)?

I've been looking through the code of other UI scripts, but I find very few to no references to the faction, yet they change by faction.

Help would be much appreciated.

Lots of love,
Jip

Statistics: Posted by Jip — 15 Jul 2016, 15:02