Shield Ground Rings - Additional graphics for shields

[warm fox]

Case:
It can be hard to see shield coverages in busy bases. It's also hard to know what queued shields will cover so that you can queue other potential shields in quick succession. This widget adds rings on the ground with different colours and animating the queued shields' rings for added visibility.

Download: https://gist.github.com/tetrisface/b44fd0b678e4d858bc42acf747993d52

Old 2D version in the video: https://gist.github.com/tetrisface/fcf1e6bb053f8f0a0cfa6b99e11d04c2

[limpid axle]

Looks very nice!

You can un-hardcode the shield range like this:
local range = UnitDefNames["corgate"].weaponDefs.repulsor.range or something similar

[warm fox]

doesnt work in initialize though right? i might have to move that

I think I have tried all different shield props alternatives I could find in the whole repo. no idea

maybe I can't do it via unitdef

found it 🥳 unitDef.customParams.shield_radius

[warm fox]

updated to show teammates' shields

[warm fox]

updated: now seems to work with t3 shields

[warm fox]

Updated with 3D support. It has a more minimalistic look so far with just one ring per shield.
Unfortunately some bugs! Some rings will glitch back and forth. Maybe some buffer issue.

Shield Ground Rings - Additional graphics for shields

[cerulean wolf]

Can you make it so that the ground under a shield is a diff color if its supported by, lets say, 7 shields 🙂

[warm fox]

i might be misunderstanding but i think it goes against a goal of this widget. that goal is to subtract from the visual content instead of adding to it to highlight missing coverage instead of highlighting multiple layer coverage. to take it even further i would actually like to remove the intersecting multiple white-ish spheres and replace that with a connected but non-intersecting volume of whiteness

[warm fox]

is the idea to designate an area "calamity" safe?

i guess it can be done. the hard part is to make it understandable without explanation/text. i would also want it to stay good-looking. complexity would increase and im already stretching my opengl capabilities 🙂

from the top of my head maybe some kind of silver armor-ish looking color/pattern could do the job. + some indicator for the number of shields. its an interesting design challenge

maybe some groups of "tiger" bands of silver where the number of bands is the number of shields. for example 3 such groups per area

i think the void in the middle should be quite sacred. maybe a number. 7 bands is actually too many to discern. so need another solution

could be bands of void/transparency that shift to silver if 7

[cerulean wolf]

Yep