The texture you choose needs to have dimensions that are a power of two for WoW to load it, but the eePanel you place it in can be whatever size you want. It's like when you set a wallpaper to your computer's desktop, but the picture isn't the same size as your resolution. If you tell it to stretch the background, it fills the screen so there's no black border, or shrinks so you can see the whole picture. Or how a widescreen tv stretches the tv image horizontally.
The texture you choose needs to have dimensions that are a power of two for WoW to load it, but the eePanel you place it in can be whatever size you want. It's like when you set a wallpaper to your computer's desktop, but the picture isn't the same size as your resolution. If you tell it to stretch the background, it fills the screen so there's no black border, or shrinks so you can see the whole picture. Or how a widescreen tv stretches the tv image horizontally.
Oh, and so everything with an alpha of 0 gets ignored?
aargh, so. You have an image that is 512px widex 300 px tall. You have to put it in a 512x512 canvas because it needs to be a power for 2 for WoW to load it.
If you wanted to put it in an eepanel, would the eePanel have to be 512x512? or could you make the eepanel 512x300 without it making the image really short.
or do you mean that you'd want to make the image 512x256 and then make the image twice as tall (by warping it) as it should be in photoshop and then in eepanel make the panel 512x256 so that it'd be compressed to the right size?
or do you mean that you'd want to make the image 512x256 and then make the image twice as tall (by warping it) as it should be in photoshop and then in eepanel make the panel 512x256 so that it'd be compressed to the right size?
WoW will load an image that's 512x256. 256 is a power of 2. Sorry, I was tired last night - any transparent area to your image still takes up area in your image. (If that makes sense - last night I was tired, today I have a headache. :P ) Resizing the eePanels will just resize (stretch or squash) your image, not crop it.
Hey guys N' gals, I've just today installed the latest version of eepanels i couldfind which was dated january 07, anyway it worked fine when i logged in and i after 20 or so minutes of tinkering got thehang of it and made the boxes i wanted formy lock. Now it was just a simple layout of only 3 boxes to just clean up my UI a tad. Well it looked great and i then logged off fora while to eat etc ^^ and when i logged back in all my changes were gone and no profiles were saved.
I read on UI.worldofwar.net that there was issues with prior versions not saving settings upon logout, if its a case of me having an incompatable version and i need to update it from januarys could someone point me in the right direction of where i can get a newer version please? or is it just a case of me doing something wrong?=)
I look forward to your replies.
edit: I just tried again with just a few random boxes, and relogged i then got an error message about eepanels and it didn't load the boxes up, I guess its a version issue =/ but i cant seem to find a newer one than the one i have.
Screenies of before and after,Before been when i have the boxes how i want them and after been what i get upon relog.
If this is already supported somewhere and i'm not seeing it my apologies. I'm looking for a square border texture that i can use in eePanels i understand i'll have to edit the lua to add it but wondering if anyone has a border texture that literally just gives the eePanels background a different color square around it.
The current way i do this is make 1 panel of one color then another panel on top of it same size minus 1 or 2 pixels and sit it on top of it to give it a border effect. Sort of the same way stroking does in photoshop. Any ideas?
K i'm a newb, but how do you open the config for this addon? I need to do 2 things.
1. Make frames for everything
2. Lock my UI. I left it earlier, comp hibernated, and I log back in to find the UI i worked on for 2 hours gone.
*edit saves, but the unused bars do not disappear when hide them. This is like CT when using the barmod except I can make them solid so I can play...
eepanels is an awesome addon. I have no problems with it at all. I guess i've not updated mine in a while because I didn't know you could add custom textures using this addon :P
heres my UI using eepanels. very basic i know, but I love it :D
eepanels is an awesome addon. I have no problems with it at all. I guess i've not updated mine in a while because I didn't know you could add custom textures using this addon :P
heres my UI using eepanels. very basic i know, but I love it :D
the idea behind the black bars isn't my idea, so I wont take credit for it. Someone over on the discord forums came up with the idea, but I think the overall effect it gives is pretty nice.
eepanels is an awesome addon. I have no problems with it at all. I guess i've not updated mine in a while because I didn't know you could add custom textures using this addon :P
heres my UI using eepanels. very basic i know, but I love it :D
if you imported one of teh 512x512 textures in, how would I make it worK?
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Curse PremiumThe texture you choose needs to have dimensions that are a power of two for WoW to load it, but the eePanel you place it in can be whatever size you want. It's like when you set a wallpaper to your computer's desktop, but the picture isn't the same size as your resolution. If you tell it to stretch the background, it fills the screen so there's no black border, or shrinks so you can see the whole picture. Or how a widescreen tv stretches the tv image horizontally.
Oh, and so everything with an alpha of 0 gets ignored?
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Curse PremiumIf you wanted to put it in an eepanel, would the eePanel have to be 512x512? or could you make the eepanel 512x300 without it making the image really short.
or do you mean that you'd want to make the image 512x256 and then make the image twice as tall (by warping it) as it should be in photoshop and then in eepanel make the panel 512x256 so that it'd be compressed to the right size?
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Curse PremiumWoW will load an image that's 512x256. 256 is a power of 2. Sorry, I was tired last night - any transparent area to your image still takes up area in your image. (If that makes sense - last night I was tired, today I have a headache. :P ) Resizing the eePanels will just resize (stretch or squash) your image, not crop it.
I read on UI.worldofwar.net that there was issues with prior versions not saving settings upon logout, if its a case of me having an incompatable version and i need to update it from januarys could someone point me in the right direction of where i can get a newer version please? or is it just a case of me doing something wrong?=)
I look forward to your replies.
edit: I just tried again with just a few random boxes, and relogged i then got an error message about eepanels and it didn't load the boxes up, I guess its a version issue =/ but i cant seem to find a newer one than the one i have.
Screenies of before and after,Before been when i have the boxes how i want them and after been what i get upon relog.
Before :
After:
I've forced an update so there's now a new version out with the newest libs.
http://files.wowace.com/
and search for eePanels.
Thanks for update EvilElvis :)
Is there a chance that this feature will be implemented in near future? Would be great if I could just type /eepanels hide #4.
The current way i do this is make 1 panel of one color then another panel on top of it same size minus 1 or 2 pixels and sit it on top of it to give it a border effect. Sort of the same way stroking does in photoshop. Any ideas?
1. Make frames for everything
2. Lock my UI. I left it earlier, comp hibernated, and I log back in to find the UI i worked on for 2 hours gone.
*edit saves, but the unused bars do not disappear when hide them. This is like CT when using the barmod except I can make them solid so I can play...
To see the commands the addon uses, type /eepanels. You can hide/show the minimap/fubar icon from there.
If you're having problems with the addon saving, then you need to get the latest version of the addon. Link is on the first post of this thread.
heres my UI using eepanels. very basic i know, but I love it :D
http://andson.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/proui.jpg
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Curse PremiumAnd here I was wondering if you did those black lines with custom textures... :P
That's really cool :o
Is each black line it's own panel?