When I try to hide the standard UI using the "UI - Hide game UI for (All Players)" action, it gives me a black screen.
Custom dialog items are able to appear over it, but all units and the game world are completely hidden along with the standard UI. I've tried to use the "Show World" action, but it doesn't do anything D:
Additional attempts to hide individual frames of the standard UI seemed to work, but hiding the Console Panel caused the same problem.
I'm at a complete loss as to how this is happening, since it worked just fine previously (although Blizzard enjoys breaking things that already work xD)
Any help is appreciated!
Hide Game UI does not hide the world ... so you are doign something wrong. If I had to guess you could possibly be a dialog issue, like you have a fullscreen dialog that is causing it to go black. It is really hard to debug without the map to take a look at it. Try making a blank map and then just do a hide game UI ... it works fine in Tofu o_O ... and that part of the code hasn't changed in a year and a half.
Currently it loads the dialogs, moves to the camera angle, and blacks out the world...
Although, I did notice something odd when attempting Cinematic Mode with the Default transition. It worked just fine hiding the interface, but as the camera moved all the models left black trails before the terrain followed suit. Additionally, holding ALT still shows health bars.
I hope it's not a graphics issue...
Currently I think my best bet is just to offset the standard ui off the screen and move on =\
Yeah... sorry, was a problem with my graphics drivers -.-
I run a hybrid card, so nvidia refuses to support me (my 'latest' drivers were from august 2009)
After much googling, I managed to hack the .inf file and install the 285.62 drivers from nvidia and now Starcraft is running fine again XD
Thanks for trying to figure it out with me though (b^.^)b
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When I try to hide the standard UI using the "UI - Hide game UI for (All Players)" action, it gives me a black screen. Custom dialog items are able to appear over it, but all units and the game world are completely hidden along with the standard UI. I've tried to use the "Show World" action, but it doesn't do anything D: Additional attempts to hide individual frames of the standard UI seemed to work, but hiding the Console Panel caused the same problem.
I'm at a complete loss as to how this is happening, since it worked just fine previously (although Blizzard enjoys breaking things that already work xD) Any help is appreciated!
Hide Game UI does not hide the world ... so you are doign something wrong. If I had to guess you could possibly be a dialog issue, like you have a fullscreen dialog that is causing it to go black. It is really hard to debug without the map to take a look at it. Try making a blank map and then just do a hide game UI ... it works fine in Tofu o_O ... and that part of the code hasn't changed in a year and a half.
Make sure you are not hiding the game UI multiple times for a player.
Hide Game UI is capable of showing the credits as a big surprise for most mappers. I don't know if they changed that behavior already.
I did previously have the credits problem, that was kinda hilarious xD
The UI is only being hidden once, and there is no single dialog covering the entire screen (for reference, here is a screenshot of it when it worked) http://th02.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2011/121/7/f/ffsc2_interface_by_feraligono-d3fdkc9.jpg No changes have been made to the dialog itself since then
Currently it loads the dialogs, moves to the camera angle, and blacks out the world...
Although, I did notice something odd when attempting Cinematic Mode with the Default transition. It worked just fine hiding the interface, but as the camera moved all the models left black trails before the terrain followed suit. Additionally, holding ALT still shows health bars. I hope it's not a graphics issue...
Currently I think my best bet is just to offset the standard ui off the screen and move on =\
@Feraligono: Go
Yeah... sorry, was a problem with my graphics drivers -.-
I run a hybrid card, so nvidia refuses to support me (my 'latest' drivers were from august 2009) After much googling, I managed to hack the .inf file and install the 285.62 drivers from nvidia and now Starcraft is running fine again XD
Thanks for trying to figure it out with me though (b^.^)b