My problem is that I've placed it ontop of the ability panel, which is not scaled for resolution.  So if I scale mine by resolution, then it will start to overlap the ability panel, most noticably if you are playing a general.  And just about every other location on the screen is already taken up by something if you are playing at a lower resolution.  There's just not alot of screen real estate to work with.

Anyway, if you want to fiddle with the size of the font/bars, open up "partyPanel.lua"

Search for the function "CreateArmyLine".  Skip down about 30-40 lines to the "### Health" comment.  This is the section that draws the health bar and text.  The easiest thing to try is increasing the font size:

line.healthvalues = UIUtil.CreateText(line.healthbg, '', 9, UIUtil.bodyFont) # 7

Just change that 9 to a 10 or 11 and see how it looks (for reference, it was a 7 in 1.2, and I changed it to 9 in 1.21).

If you want to play with the thickness of the bars, edit both of these lines (you can see how I increased them to make them thicker--just keep the one 4 smaller than the other):

    line.healthbg.Height:Set(12) # 8
    line.healthoverlay.Height:Set(16) # 12

If you edit the thickness of the bars, you might have to move the text up/down to keep it centered in the bar:

    LayoutHelpers.AtCenterIn(line.healthvalues, line.healthbg, -1) # 0

Change the -1: More negative moves the text up.  More positive moves it down.

Also, if you change the thickness of the bars, you will probably have to adjust their position in the panel:

    LayoutHelpers.AtTopIn(line.healthbg, line.Image, 4) # 8

Change the 4.  Smaller number to move it up.  Larger number to move it down.

The energy works similarly.  It is already programmed to be below the health bar, but if you are making the bars thicker, we might want to reduce the gap between it and the health bar:

    LayoutHelpers.Below(line.energybg, line.healthbg, 3) # 5

Probably change that 3 to a 1 or 2.

And finally, if we need to make the panel slightly taller to accomodate thicker bars, we can do that.  If you can fiddle with text/bar size to come up with something that is usable, then I'll fiddle with the size of the panel to make it all fit.

Oh...one more thing that could help readability is to increase the contrast.  Look for these lines (there is one in each section):

    line.energybg:SetSolidColor('88000011')
    line.healthbg:SetSolidColor('88001100')

These represent the "empty" color of the energy and health bar.  Change those "88" down to "66" or "55" or "44" would create more contrast between the fill color of the bar and the empty color of the bar, which might make it easier to see the bar without making it any bigger.

Thanks for tweaking:)

Great work bman654, works a charm =]

@Thanatosesc: See my earlier post about scaling - the engine supports both scaled and fixed-size UI components.  But as long as this component is attached to the ability panel it needs to use the same method as the ability panel - which is fixed-size.  If you can find another location for the panel that doesn't cover up something else when playing in a low resolution, then we can move it and make it scaled instead.

Awsome!  Tahnk you so much! That was needed... oh my god.

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Man when i read the modmanager is coming, i was just laughting because i was sure ppl would need a while to make mods but i am really suprised how fast those nice once are coming and i really love to see it. Thanks god they implemented this, its holding me ingame so hard.

Edit:

What the hell!   Ive tested.... and really fell in love with you now. This mod is a real beauty. Now you can see if mates run into trouble, you can klick on the box to switch to them, you can see the mana.... Holy sh** what a beautiful mod...
you deserver a lot of thank for it.

OK but besides all the love i have, its true, you can hardly see it. My resolution here is:  1680x1050
My eyes hurt if i want to read the amount of hp my ally has hehe. So maybe there is a possibility to raise those boxes abit?

Edit2:

Oh i just read your replay #27. I will try to resize myself then, but will it not cause errors for other players if i have a diffrent version of the mod? Or does it make no diffrence because its only a font change? Sry i have no ideaD:

Its np Lordi. You can do whatever you want with UI only mods. It doesnt affect the game, since nobody else is needed to have this mod, in order to play with you.

bman, this frieking rocks! 

Changes the game.

@ bman654

I have made an attempt to design a panel that doesn't take cover up any important space. Please check the link as see if you like it. I don't know anything about the LUA files or how they work, but from what I read it seems easy. So I will start learning that to be able to create my own mods.

Here is the link to an image I made using Photoshop.

http://www.mediafire.com/i/?3ghmyzzgjii

edit: after looking at your code in the partyPanel.lua file, there was a lot of thing that I didn't understand. Can you please recommend me where to start from if I want to learn how to create UI mods. I can understand the syntax and I've done programming before.

ok, after playing with it at max res. I would have the following suggestions:

Health and Mana should go to 14

Names can go to 11 or 12 (either one is fine, its really level that I'd want to see at this size, names can really stay where they are).

I do believe that this will require some resizing... however, I think there is enough realestate (tried it with a general and 4 allies) to get it done.

Starting out there's no issue, but as soon as it gets into 4-6k and 10k+ health, it'll look funny.

Thanks for absolutely all of this and let me know if I can be of further assistance!!!
Cheers,
ThanatosESC 

Very sweet.

Much thanks for the time you put into this Bman. 

If I could I would take all of the gifts back from Sten and give them to you.

i'm having a slight problem when using this mod. i can usually run the graphics on the highest settings, but for some odd reason, when i use this mod, i start having problems end game. I had to switch everything to the lowest setting. Is it possible that the counters for the other characters are causing my computer to slow down? Let me know. Thanks

Dude!!!!!!!!!Thanks a lot Bman.Your work is very much appreciated.

@ bman654

Ok I think you are right that it cover up the chat. But just so you I don't have a big resolution like pacov, my resolution is 1024x768, which I think is pretty standard normal. Anyway I just changed and moved around the box so that they cover up the chat, and I don't think they would cover anything now. here is my other attempt. Maybe this will help you make the panel scaled by resolution.

http://www.mediafire.com/i/?imzkomoyw0j