If an opponent protoss warps a building, all buildings look the same, or is there a hint, what kind of building it will be once it is finished?
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You can click on it if you Enable Enemy Unit Selection in the Options and the name will be visible. In addition, the outline of the building is faintly visible later on in the warp, and you can make an educated guess based on the time what it is.
6They are all different, either differing in size or shadow. Someone posted a good guide to this on /r/starcraft years ago:
Stargate (has shadow), Twilight Council/Gateway, Robotics Facility/Forge.I would recommend you just play a game against a Protoss friend, get him to make a lot of money and build every building in a line, scout them before they finish, take a screenshot and compare.
Obviously this only when you don't get time to click on the building when you scout, if you only get a glimpse and you need to know if it's a gate or a robo, or a pylon or a dark shrine (that distinction is more obvious).
In most cases you can get a good read for the buildings in production by looking at the width and height of their life bars (under "Gameplay" you have first to activate the life bars – at least for "Damaged"). For example: The life bar of a pylon is seen slightly on top of the warp-circle, the life bar of a cannon is positioned a little bit lower (just inside the circle) and the bar of a dark shrine is positioned way up. Same for the robotics Facility (low), gateway (middle) and starport (up). You can use this also for Zerg buildings.
