Chain GUI Minimisation

[Fl0rn]

It felt large, bulky, and invasive.  I wanted to set it at the top of my screen, out of the way, and forget it 80% of the time.  Title bar interfered with doing that properly, and bulky to boot.

Chain Minimisation



Files involved: data/db/layout2/dorchatuairimview.xml and data/gfx/gui/gui_dorcha_combat.dds


Bug: The title bar, while shrunk, is aligned left and below your dorcha bar.  Just move your mouse around the bottom left of the bar and it'll pop up easy enough.  Your mouse has to be over the title bar, to relocate your dorcha bar again.

Before it's asked, no i can not safely move the title bar's location.  If you do so, then you become completely unable to interact with the title bar.

Gonna be lengthy.

I'll start with dds details.  Simple explanation; removed a bunch of fluff and changed remaining elements to be crude edits with transparency. 
Comparison image


Top is mine, bottom is the normal dorcha bar, with some color swapped. (not restarting mabi to safely extract the unedited file)
As you can see, hell of a lot of dots that were taken out, reason will be in rambling spoiler. Took out the bubble for what your current dorcha value is, the number remains don't worry.  That's also the green marks in the first image.  Removed the 'placeholders' for your dorcha, that made it look like you filled them.  Remaining elements were trimmed.


Moving on to the xml file. 

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<DorchaTuairimView name="DorchaTuairimView" x="[@posX;s32]" y="[@posY;s32]" width="[@width;u16]" height="[@height;u16]" isSingleton="true" >
<meta>
<data key="width" type="u16" value="115" />
<data key="height" type="u16" value="55" />
<data key="minimizeWidth" type="u16" value="115" />
<data key="posXOffset" type="s32" value="6" /> <!-- 화면의 중앙을 기준으로 했을 때의 가로 오프셋 -->
<data key="posYOffset" type="s32" value="-120" /> <!-- 화면의 최하단을 기준으로 했을 때의 세로 오프셋 -->
<data key="contentBaseY" type="s32" value="-100" />
<data key="tuairimGaugeWidth" type="u16" value="505" />
<data key="tuairimGaugeFlashVelocity" type="float" value="1" />
<data key="firstDorchaFrameX" type="s32" value="50" />
<data key="firstDorchaFrameY" type="s32" value="-98" />
</meta>
Width and height were shrunk, those were the title bar, as was minimizewidth which only applies when you of course minimize the bar.  contentBaseY is edited, by decreasing it, you move the contents of the dorcha bar, above the title bar, enabling you to easily place it on the top of the screen.  firstDorchaFrameY had to be decreased for the same reason, as that will be your individual dorcha bubbles, no noticeable effect when minimized.  Moving to the last part.

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n name="minimaizeButton" title="" x="564" y="[@contentBaseY;s32]-6" width="25" height="18" buttonType="7" alwaysVisible="true" >
I had to edit the y value there, to include -6 at the end.  This moves the minimize button above the title bar, otherwise the minimize button will not move with the rest of the stuff.

Okay so now for the rambling.  I'm sure some people are flipping out over all the stuff deleted in the dds.  The dots are redundant and entirely unneeded, save for 1 set, which is what i use.  The color comparison i use in the second image, that was me trying to change the dots naturally, and quickly figuring out that the game only uses the first set.  So hence, i decided to give up on that, and use only the first pair.  For that reason, is suspect the metal gauge fillers, act the same, but have not tested.  Of the two dorcha value returns, the big purple bubbles, only the second one is used.  You are free to edit any of these in yourself, naturally.



There's a better comparison for the dachra orbs though.  The bottom of the image, are the elements i'm using for the dachra bar mod, but as you can see from the top of the image, only the red dots are applied even at full dachra.  This means the game is only pulling the first pair of dachra orbs off the dds.  None of the others are used.  As i don't know how to modify the xml to read every individual dot, there is no real reason to share it.  If someone is able to get the other dots to be read though, then i can either post the others at a later point, or just remake it.


For the xml, i tested various values.  I figured out how to move the title bar at some point, but i forget the value.  After realizing that it bugged though and i still had to hold my mouse on the left side of my bachram , while the title bar would appear somewhere else, i figured out that i became entirely unable to interact with the title bar.  Short of stretching the title bar the full length again, so that it'd overlap the display area in game, i'm not sure it could be fixed. 

You may be able to find where you want dorcha bar though, and then when you decide you don't want it moved you could actually edit the title bar to go offscreen, i assume.  As, where you hover your mouse to make the title bar appear, is different than where your mouse needs to be to interact with the title bar.  This also means you can place your mouse in the spot you need to hover, and actually be able to click and interact with the game in that location, rather than being blocked by a title bar.  But, due to how much issue this would cause to players first unlocking chains, and for players first learning this mod, i won't be including any such edits in the original download link.