Creating skin elements on runtime: possible or not?

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Feb 13 2017, 7:29 pm (Edited on Feb 13 2017, 10:07 pm)

(See the best response by Lummox JR.)

Kayren

Problem description:

Evening guys. I've been working on my first project quite a bit and have been moved from skins to HUDs now. Long story short, I still want to use the bars from skin without clogging up my original one too much, so I want to ask whether it is possible to create some elements of skins (notably the bar) on runtime, so that when the fighting hud pops up I can create that thing right when I need it.

Besides, anyone know a guide to prerendering 3D objects into icons for DM as well as tools? Would be pretty welcome!

Feb 14 2017, 4:51 pm
Dragonpearl123	You could make the bars invisible until the mob logs in, other than that I wouldn't know of a way to actually create the elements on runtime.

Feb 15 2017, 11:15 am
Kayren	Thanks man, I'll do it that way.

Feb 17 2017, 1:19 pm Best response
Lummox JR	Yes, you can create new controls at runtime. You'll need these params in a winset: parent (the ID of the window or pane holding it) type (the control type, in this case "bar") pos size anchor1 anchor2 The skin reference should have more info on this.