[REL] Anchor Buttons

The keyboard shortcuts for pinning or "anchoring" a camera location, and then snapping back to it are awkward for some. This mod adds nice big buttons for it. Click one of the numbers once to set the camera anchor, then click it again to snap back there. Right-clicking will reset / reassign an anchor or unit group.

Camera anchors work for spectators, so this could be useful for those casting games.

Thanks to
@proeleert :

1.8 released on PAMM

- Mainly fix for current PA release (74525)

Settings are under UI


If you change anything while in game you'll need to refresh the ui with the refresh button (F5).

Nice! Maybe you could make it so a right-click removes the anchor?

Straight out of the UI mock-up?



Does that mean I did something right?

Version 1.1 released already!

Right click now re-assigns the camera anchor. So if, for example, you've already used number 3, right clicking on it will assign 3 to your new camera location/angle. Good for if you screw up or run out of numbers.

Mebbe!

Added to PAMM

It covers up my energy UI for how much I gain, the ui is in the center now btw

Are you running PA at quite a low resolution? I only tested 1920x1200, so that might be the issue. You could easily look into the mod and remove a few of the copy+pasted button sections to make the bar thinner as a quick hotfix

It'll be draggable soon too

Maybe add a setting on how much buttons you want to see displayed.

Having a bit of fun


Added Floating Framework support.
Added Settings how many buttons to show.


burntcustard , can I add this to PAMM ?

This is definitely on my favorite mods list. Great job to both burntcustard and proeleert!

New version release in new mod manager

It's not flash on 1900*1080. Basically the UI gets too cluttered between this, economic efficiency and commander HP

I did some tweaking! I'd like some testing and thoughts before this is uploaded to PAMM

Bugs/areas that need improvement/planned improvements:

• Cannot have 0 camera anchor buttons.
• Unit group buttons still suck (can't reassign).
• Align left for those weirdo's who might want to use this on the left.
• Settings consistency (ALL CAPS??!)
• More obvious reassign (maybe a different bleep).
• Better compatibility with the Floating Framework mod.

I like the new sliders in settings, I'll try this out when I get the chance and get back to you. For reassign why don't you make the number turn red and then fade back to white? I think jQuery has a command to do that.

I'm still having an issue with the keyboard. When I press shift+1 to save a location, the "1" doesn't turn white. If I left-click it I still go to the location, and it turns white once I click. Could you detect the hotkey for saving camera location and turn the number white? I mostly just use this mod to remind me how many camera anchors I have, but I tend to use the keyboard for the actual control.

Just tested it and it seems to work fine. Great job!

Not easily It should be possible though so if someone with more experience can help out, I'd be more than willing to accept code snippets (specifically for detecting the keypress but then not having it set the anchor. I could make it just click the button instead).

Thanks! That version's been I-don't-know-how-to-github-pull-request-ed to PAMM

I actually just implemented a fix for it when I made anchor buttons for the draggable pip. What I did was intercept api.camera.captureAnchor and store the anchor index in an observableArray. Then I just added a data-bind on the anchor buttons that sets the class according to whether there is an element in the array for that anchor.

I can make the same fix for your mod when I get around to it, but it isn't really a big bug.

And done. The update is now on PAMM.