With the trollous nature of my Strategic Troll Icon mod , I want to take it a step further and make a settings addon to change commander icons from a troll face to something else in the files, like a . So, first question: Is this possible? If yes, I have no idea how to do it, and I don't think anyone else has made something like this, so I can't use existing UI mod structure to make mine. So, if possible: Where would I start? How would I make the settings addon select different icons? Thanks for reading, I hope something like this isn't too complicated where it includes lots of JS functions.
I won't say it's impossible, but you may be choosing a hard road. Icons are usually selected by name matching. Units (ex: all the different commanders use one icon) can override the name used. Icons are a bit trickier. I think it's done by index matching between the elements created in the atlas html and the names in the list sent to engine call handle_icon_list. I currently know of no way to runtime modify the unit specs outside of GW. It might be possible with a GW/regular server-script mashup. As of many months ago, the icons in icon_atlas were dynamically used by the game - make one a canvas or js-modify an image source and it would be picked up by the running game. There is just one huge monstrous problem though: atlases aren't traditional child scenes. They don't have ids or names for messaging or to pass to reload. Some day I'll get around to testing localStorage polling as a communication mechanism, and for your purposes polling settings directly might work. So... having essayed the space, my recommendation would be to do a slow poll on your mod's settings, find the index of the icon you want to modify, and try changing the src attribute.
