[QUESTION] [WotLk] Loading Screen Tips - editable?

[Scytheria23]

Hi Folks,

Has anyone had any luck editing the loading screen tips?  I can change their content via the gametips dbc, and alter their colour with cff codes, but I cannot seem to find any frame or glue info regarding their font, on-screen position and size.  Ideally, I want to locate them centrally, make them larger and use a different font.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Scy

[schlumpf]

That's all hard coded.

[Kobiesan]

That's all hard coded.

What else is hard coded?

[Scytheria23]

That's a good question, Kobiesan.  

I'm slightly suspicious that Schlumf may be wrong about this one.  It seems odd to hard code something that would require localization (for example, in the Chinese client the loading tips are - of course - in Chinese, and in a substantially larger font).  There is, however, no difference between the US and CN client (at least, the wow.exe).  This seems to indicate that the font information for these tips is elsewhere.

[Amaroth]

Some chinese (and other) files seem to be in all clienths though. For instance logo of game. One can find chinese one even in enGB client. So, Wizzard Entertainment may have actually hardcoded things like this.

[Alastor]

Lizzard Entertainment is doing quietly black magic about this but i would recomend you to not underestimate schlumpfs opinion - he is always right

[schlumpf]

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void LoadingScreenEnable(int mapId, bool loadingWorld)
{
  if ( s_loadingScreenEnableCount++ <= 0 )
  {
    ObjectAllocFreeEmptyPages(0);

    if ( CGGameUI::AreScriptFunctionsLoaded() )
    {
      FrameScript_SignalEvent(0x338u, 0LL);
    }

    s_customLoadScreenSpellID = -1;
    s_customLoadingScreensID = 0;
    s_customLoadingScreenPathID = 0;
    s_customLoadingScreenLegIndex = 0;
    s_drawingCustomLoadingScreenBackground = 0;
    s_drawingCustomLoadingScreenSpline = 0;

    UserClientLoadingScreenNotify packet;
    packet.mapID = mapId;
    packet.showing = 1;
    ClientServices::Send(&packet);

    CGGameUI::SetAspect();

    if ( s_gameTip && *s_gameTip )
    {
      if ( !s_textFont )
      {
        char fontName[260]; // Locale.db2
        GetLocaleDefaultFont(GetCurrentWowLocale(), fontName, sizeof (fontName));
        s_textFont = TextBlockGenerateFont(fontName, NDCToDDCHeight(0.017999999), 1u);
      }

      float aspect_compensation = CoordinateGetAspectCompensation();
      float v18 = 0.50292969 / aspect_compensation;
      C3Vector position
        ( 0.5 - v18 * 0.5
        , aspect_compensation < 1.0  : 0.1 ? ((1.0 - aspect_compensation) * 0.5 + 0.1);
        , 1.0
        );

      trim_trailing_newlines (s_gameTip);

      GxuFontCreateString(
        TextBlockGetFontPtr(s_textFont),
        s_gameTip,
        0.017999999,
        &v22,
        v18,
        1.0,
        0.0049999999,
        &s_tipStr,
        (EGxFontVJusts)2,
        0,
        0,
        0xD7C8C8C8,
        0.0,
        1.0,
        1.0,
        0.0);

      GxuFontAddShadow(s_tipStr, COLOR_BLACK, {0.001, -0.001});

      if ( !s_batch )
      {
        s_batch = GxuFontCreateBatch();
      }
      GxuFontAddToBatch(s_batch, s_tipStr);
    }

    s_simpleMapID = mapId;
    InitializeProgressBar(loadingWorld);
  }

[Alastor]

So Core handle it ? i thought its all in exe

[schlumpf]

So Core handle it ? i thought its all in exe

That's client code.

[Scytheria23]

Thanks, Schlumpf.  I didn't doubt you.  Well, I did, but only in the sense that I couldn't understand why this would be buried in the client.

Time to start hacking...

[Alastor]

wuh .. how did you digged it out ?