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This isn't really a problem per se, but would it be possible to modify the opacity of background health bar based on class colors? I can either set the background to class colors without being able to adjust the opacity (which makes it impossible to see any deficit) or have it be varying shades of black/white.

Thanks!

I don't understand the issue, maybe if you explain what is your setup. How you do want to control the opacity based on class colors, which opacity for each color ?

Are you using a multibar or a bar indicator ? Are you using the "invert bar color" option ?

Did you try to use the background indicator (assigning the class color status to this indicator)  ? You can use a black semitransparent static color for the health bar (color statuses can be created in the statuses/color section).

Hi, when bar color is inverted, the background is the class color except more transparent. I can't seem to achieve that with any setting without inverting the health bar. The background is just black. When I try to change the background status by adding 'Class color', I get a solid bar for the background without being able to change its opacity.

For reference: https://imgur.com/a/aSVH5p6

The first image is my current background setting while the second is the setting I would like for my setting without having to invert the bar. Is there any way to accomplish this?

Thanks!

1. Assign the class color status to the "Background" indicator.

2. Goto Statuses / Colors, create a new static color, assign a black color with 0.8 opacity to this color status (the 4th slider in the color definition is the opacity/transparency)

3. Assign the new created color status to the bar indicator (Colors Tab).

Another posibility is to create a full opaque black color (instead of semitransparent) and assign 0.8 opacity to the bar indicator itself (there is an opacity option in the appearance section of the bar indicator configuration).

This setup is more efficient than the "invert bar color" option because it reuses the cell background instead of creating an extra background only for the bar indicator.

I tried that but it didn't seem to work.

https://imgur.com/a/xJHjgfx

The first image shows what I'm trying to accomplish for the background via the top raid frame. Grid2 is the bottom raid frame.

The second shows the settings I used as per your instructions. Could you kindly check if I've done something wrong?

Anyway, I still vastly prefer Grid2 and this just a QoL issue. Apologies for all the trouble. Thanks!

Im going to assume the "color:background" is the black semitransparent color.

The "color:background" must by assigned to the health bar, not to the background (you want a black health bar), and  It does not make sense to assign two colors to the background. You really want:

background <=> class color.

health bar <=> semitransparent black.

So:

1. Remove the "color:background" from the background indicator.

2. Goto the health indicator/Colors tab and assign the "color:background" there.

The choosen name "color:background" for the black color is not very good, because the color must be assigned to the health bar, that its on foreground, not on background, a better and more descriptive name could simply  be "color:black".

Okay, I also had to change the health indicator to 'health-deficit' and it's perfect now.

Thanks again for all your help!