Changing Role Indicators in SUF

[Snichy]

I am looking to change the role icons within the Shadowed Unit Frames addon. I have managed to ascertain that the addon uses the games dungeon finder icons as its default unit frame role indicators but I want to be able to use my own textures as these icons are quite low res and I want to jazz it up a bit as the theme isnt really in keeping with a UI I am making. Does anyone know how I go about doing this, or if I can?

[ComputerNerd]

Replacement yes, assuming that the game recognises their replacement like it does other UI graphic replacements.
Increasing their resolution, no as that is hard-coded into the game.
You would need to modify SUF to get more options, pulling your own higher resolution versions.

[Snichy]

I realise it can be done, but its just how....?! Im no coder.

[ComputerNerd]

The game client uses a virtual path, one which correlates to a file present in the CASC data files.
If that path exits for real on your hard drive, then in the case of UI graphics and sounds that alternative is used instead.
Looking at sound replacement packs or graphic replacements such as MiirGui will show you examples.

Note that for graphic replacements it must be in BLP format, for which there are various converters available, most likely to a more convenient format first for editing, then back again.

If I can find the image containing the icons, then I will maybe upload it somewhere after conversion to png or tga for you to work on.

If I can find some user-friendly way of going about the conversion I might put together a post detailing that.

[Urtgard]

I'm not a fan of replacing textures this way.
This way the texture is always replaced.
Maybe this texture is used at another place and your replacement looks shit at this place. Or you want to use a different style for other chars.

I'll take a look at it later.

[ComputerNerd]

Which comes back to my earlier point, modifying SUF to pull another texture.
Or can you in any way intercept that request and change it based on which addon is trying to pull it ?

[Urtgard]

Open ShadowedUnitFrames\modules\indicators.lua

Go to line 88

function Indicators:UpdateLFDRole(frame, event)
	if( not frame.indicators.lfdRole or not frame.indicators.lfdRole.enabled ) then return end
	
	local role
	if( frame.unitType ~= "arena" ) then
		role = UnitGroupRolesAssigned(frame.unitOwner)
	else
		local specID = GetArenaOpponentSpec(frame.unitID)
		role = specID and select(6, GetSpecializationInfoByID(specID))
	end

	if( role == "TANK" ) then
		frame.indicators.lfdRole:SetTexCoord(0, 19/64, 22/64, 41/64)
		frame.indicators.lfdRole:Show()
	elseif( role == "HEALER" ) then
		frame.indicators.lfdRole:SetTexCoord(20/64, 39/64, 1/64, 20/64)
		frame.indicators.lfdRole:Show()
	elseif( role == "DAMAGER" ) then
		frame.indicators.lfdRole:SetTexCoord(20/64, 39/64, 22/64, 41/64)
		frame.indicators.lfdRole:Show()
	else
		frame.indicators.lfdRole:Hide()
	end	
end

frame.indicators.lfdRole is a texture.
You cold do something like this:

if( role == "TANK" ) then
		frame.indicators.lfdRole:SetTexture("PATH_TO_YOUR_TEXTURE")
		frame.indicators.lfdRole:Show()
	elseif( role == "HEALER" ) then
		frame.indicators.lfdRole:SetTexture("PATH_TO_YOUR_TEXTURE")
		frame.indicators.lfdRole:Show()
	elseif( role == "DAMAGER" ) then
		frame.indicators.lfdRole:SetTexture("PATH_TO_YOUR_TEXTURE")
		frame.indicators.lfdRole:Show()
	else
		frame.indicators.lfdRole:Hide()
	end