Find out faction of user in UI mod

[Jip]

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

[CookieNoob]

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

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local armyTable = GetArmiesTable().armiesTable


and then

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armyTable[GetFocusArmy()].faction()

[nine2]

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

[Jip]

@ SirTobi,

Thanks! This does indeed work:

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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:

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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

[CookieNoob]

np, glad I could help

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

[nine2]

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