Please help a noob

tapes · 11-01-12, 06:38 AM

Greetings!

I've never posted in this forum and the last time I visited it was (apparently) about 3 years ago, so I apologize if I'm posting on a wrong subsection or something.

Anyway, I've recently started playing WoW again and I'm planning on using an almost default UI that I plan to modify myself. I know how to do some simple things like moving, hiding and scaling frames and things like that, but I'm still a complete .lua noob.

I need help with two things:

1. making the bar above target frame health bar transparent, pic related:

2. coloring the name in the target frame according to the target's hostility (green - friendly, red - hostile)

I appreciate any help I can get.
Thank you.

Dridzt · 11-01-12, 06:53 AM

I think this is relevant at least to the part about the background.

http://www.wowinterface.com/forums/s...ad.php?t=44627

tapes · 11-01-12, 12:27 PM

Originally Posted by Dridzt

I think this is relevant at least to the part about the background.

http://www.wowinterface.com/forums/s...ad.php?t=44627

Thanks! That helped, although now I realize that I didn't want to make it completely transparent, I want it to look the same way it does on the player frame (low opacity black).

Edit: I've managed to change the opacity of the bar, but it's still green and I'm not sure how to change it to black.

SDPhantom · 11-01-12, 02:44 PM

It looks like a texture and as such, you can use texture:SetVertexColor() to change its color. It accepts 4 values representing a RGBA value in the form of percentages ranging from 0.0-1.0. See texture:SetVertexColor().

Note the link refers to LayeredRegion, which is an abstract list of methods that is available for use by Texture objects among a few others.