Health bar styles

I was digging into this part of the game lately, have yet to make anything tangible but i was always bothered by 3 DE’s thin and hard to read health bars, idea being to try and improve that, and potentially also recolor them to aoe2 legacy scheme as an additional mod


just comparing it with bars in 3, there’s so much to improve here

its too thin, not standing out enough to be easy to read at a glance
for context, the scaling up of bars with higher zoom out level works similarly, its just the matter of aoe3 bar being much thinner to begin with that hurts it at all zoom levels

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i’ve been extra occupied but still found time to attempt the legacy health bar coloring, this round i targeted the user interface, imo its a step up over default

i’ll let public be the judge

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the final UI as i see it fit, with necessary adjustments, i will still try ingame unit hp bars once i find what controls those

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