Tutorial on elements how to do

 

Elements or the old snippets are a part of XVM that are seldom used ,

 

the reasons for this is simple ,

 

A.  they are fiddly little feckers to get right

 

B. when you set the configs ,they are only good for one resolution

 

for this exercise i will be using 1920×1200 res.

 

xvm/configs/whos ever you have/……….

 

your folder may still be named snippets ,just rename it to elements

 

 

 

 

To get xvm to load the elements we need to open battle.xc and set its path:-

 

 

 

 

 

 

after you do this ,now when XVM loads and goes through the bootup ,it reads the battle.xc file and finds the line above ,the line is telling XVM

 

to go to a folder called elements and to read a file named elements.xc in that folder, so lets take a look at the elements folder

 

 

 

 

 

 

notice elements is the config file for all the other files in this folder ,the files that begin with snippet- are used to move items around the battle interface

 

ok lets look at the elements.xc file

 

 

 

 

 

 

this is a scaled down version of my elements folder for this tutorial i have a lot more snippet- files for nearly all items,

 

looking above the config is simple enough to understand ,file paths in the true part get loaded and in the false part dont , so lets take

 

a look at a few ,

 

 

again simple enough to understand the switcher Y value is set to 0 so sits at the top of the screen ,then the left and right players panels sit 24 pixels from the top of the screen(enough room for the not to overlap the switcher)

 

 

 

 

this is the sixthsenseindicator config file ,notice its centered on the screen but the Y value is pushing it 176 pixels down the screen from the top.

 

also notice the line //”sixthsenseduration”: 3000 ? removing thew leading // makes this line active so you are able to set the time as to how long you want the bulb active ,consider 3000 = 3 seconds so 8000 would be 8 seconds

 

As you can see al these files are little and quite easy to understand and small in size , but they do allow you to move nearly all items around the screen of your battle interface

 

here are some of the files I have:-

 

 

these gives you an idea of what you can move

 

 

 

EDIT: anyone wanting any of these snippet files let me know and I will post them up.