Changing the experience bar color?

[vile]

Anyone knows how to change it from purple to something else?
I tried editing the skins of the xp bar model but the skins doesnt show a color, its just black and white.
So i've tried also to edit the model itself and to see if the segment or static colors can be changed, and i've changed the color, but ingame the color is still purple.

 

[Darg]

this has gotta be the first time I have ever seen this question asked.

I doubt there is a solution for you sorry....

 

[NoxMortus]

I have wondered about this myself, you can change the bar in Game Interface so I'm guessing you can make your own and import it.

 

[Grurf]

Edit:

This doesn't work! I also didn't read Vile's post close enough to see that he already tried this...

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I just did quite a research on it. The blp's that warcraft uses to determine the looks of the xp bar are in war3.mpq in this path:

UI\Feedback\ProgressBar\

There you will find these files:

human-xpbar-border2.blp
human-statbar-color.blp
human-statbar-highlight.blp
TimerBar.mdx

What does human-xpbar-border2.blp do? It determines how the border around the bar looks. It is gold-colored by default. You can change this easily.

What does human-statbar-color.blp do? No, it doesn't tell the bar to be purple (too bad). It determines which degree of purple is shown. If you make this image all white, the whole bar would be a bright purple colour. If you make this image all black, the xp bar will be all black, too. If you make it grey, the bar will be a darker tint of purple.

What does human-statbar-highlight.blp do? Te be serious, I don't have a single clue. I think it's a relic, and that it isn't really used.

And now the interesting part: TimerBar.mdx (which is quite a weird name, maybe blizzard wanted to make this bar a timerbar first?). If you convert this to mdl, you can actually alter the color! Look for these lines:

GeosetAnim {
	static Color { 0.823529, 0.509804, 0.254902 },
	GeosetId 1,

By altering the real values in the static Color {} tag, you can alter the color. The colors are Blue Green Red, respectively. Putting 1 here means 254 in commonly used Red Green Blue, used by several image editing programs. You can use any program that can choose colors in the 254 format to choose a color. Then divide all values by 254 and put the answers between the static Color {} tags. Remember not to use more or less decimals than you see here (6) or very weird things might happen. After you have altered the color, convert it back to mdx, and import that mdx to this path:

UI\Feedback\ProgressBar\TimerBar.mdx

Now the color of the bar should be changed. The only problem you might have now is that the bar is darkened according to the grey values in human-statbar-color.blp . This can be altered by replacing that blp with a totally white version of it. Now the bar will have exactly the color you selected in the image editing program!

Note: I haven't tested this, and I might be wrong in for example the color format, but I think this is the way it should be changed. If I did anything wrong here, please post it!

 

[vile]

So i've tried also to edit the model itself and to see if the segment or static colors can be changed, and i've changed the color, but ingame the color is still purple.

If you would have read my post clearly, you wouldn't post about the static color issue.
A waste of reply, but thanks anyways.
I hope someone will find a solution for this.. I'd really like that bar to be blueish.

 

[Grurf]

Woops! Gotta buy glasses . Ok, if that doesn't work, I don't know how it would work... I think blizzard hardcoded it then.

Edit:

Did some more research on it, and I just discovered that the .blp files in UI\Feedback\ProgressBar\ do not effect the xp bar at all! I'm now looking around for an other place with files that may effect it.

Another Edit:

Every place I try seems not to effect anything. Maybe warcraft disabled replacing this UI stuff and always uses the one in it's original mpq's? Even corrupting the .mdx files has zero effect. I think I'm going to make a backup of my mpq's and then replace the files right in there.

 

[Pyromancer]

this would be a great tutoriel (how to change the color bar of exp).
when you can change it, mabey put it as a tutoriel.

 

[phyrex1an]

I have no idea on the answer of this thread but i may be able to answer to one thing.

And now the interesting part: TimerBar.mdx (which is quite a weird name, maybe blizzard wanted to make this bar a timerbar first?). !

Isnt a 'TimerBar' the experation timer on things like Water Elemental ect? Maybe the edits on TimerBar.mdx only changes the coler on those bars? Just my thougs and I am compleatly unexperienced with mpq edition ^^ Goodluck guys.

 

[Grurf]

You have a point there buddy, but altering the mdx and the color mapping for that bar didn't change anything, too. I'm pretty sure now that Warcraft either don't uses that files at all or is hardcoded to always use the ones in the mpq, so you would have to write a patch to change the color.

 

[w/e]

wow, its such a simple detail? and yet it can only be changed by writing a patch. lol. this is the first time ive seen this question asked.

 

[vile]

There are two MDXs concerning that bar and the TimerBar isnt one of them.
There's another bar called HeroXPBar.mdx or something similar, its in the same directory as TimerBar.mdx
But I changed that and nothing happened as well.

 

[AgentPaper]

If you really want to you can use an expiration timer, and make its max time however much xp th hero needs to lvl, and then have a trigger pause it, then whenever he gets experience you just set the expiration time to his amount of xp+gained xp. might have to do a quick unpause-change-pause, but thats not so hard. also I think i know why you want to do this, to make a "rest" system like in WoW? this makes it easier to change how uch xp the player gets too, since you can hard-wire it into the ability. the expiration timer will also show over the xp bar, but it wont make it unuseable so you can still gain xp normally and just add however much extra you want in the trigger.

 

[l-hate_you]

I have done it before in one of my maps called the Juggernaut Arena.. I downloaded some model of a red exp bar and followed the instructions to put it into my map as the exp bar but i forgot how to do it.. its simple to do and very possible... oh look at this http://www.thehelper.net/forums/showthread.php?t=25671