Alternate HUD Concept (incl. picture)

todd` · Post by **todd`** » Thu Jul 01, 2004 4:31 pm

I'm getting kind of tired of the regular HUD, everything is too big, that head is annoying, and I just can't get used to the 2 alternate HUD's (probably because I like the compass in the top-right corner). The main thing was to make everything minimalistic so you could focus on gameplay, instead of things flying past the screen in your way. I don't know if it's possible to move the event text though

So.. here's what I came up with:

[click the image to make bigger, but be warned dialup users]

Comments?

Note: I screenshotted althud2 while looking at the sky with r_fastsky "1" and r_drawSun "0" and just moved things around. Nothing was added or removed.

Edit: It's completely up to the writers of etpro whether or not they want to use this, rearrange it, etc.

flip · Post by **flip** » Thu Jul 01, 2004 5:02 pm

Custom huds (b_althud 3) should be in the next proper release of ETPro.

It will allow you to drag hud elements around, instead of them being static.

=FF=im2good4u · Post by **=FF=im2good4u** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 12:18 am

yeh the new hud wil be cool but where did you read it was in the next release

Trippy · Post by **Trippy** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 12:24 am

i like those announcement messages with dyna planted and the likes down their in the right..

bacon · Post by **bacon** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 12:42 pm

Why in the world would you want your gun info + hp + xp in the top-left?

Trippy · Post by **Trippy** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 2:55 pm

bacon wrote:Why in the world would you want your gun info + hp + xp in the top-left?

i personally wouldn't, but that's what althud 3 is going to be for, so that everyone can customize the hud to their own liking.

IdNotFound · Post by **IdNotFound** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 4:53 pm

Trippy wrote:i like those announcement messages with dyna planted and the likes down their in the right..

It is nice indeed, but there will be death/kill messages along with that unless the new althud comes with some leet new options to make those kind of messages independent...

todd` · Post by **todd`** » Sat Jul 03, 2004 11:54 am

bacon wrote:Why in the world would you want your gun info + hp + xp in the top-left?

Where else would you put it? Keeping it next to the engineering, battle sense, and light weapons icons would make that area too cluttered IMO, and it would be hard at to see what you have (XP/HP/ammo wise) at a quick glance with all white text in one area.

IdNotFound wrote:It is nice indeed, but there will be death/kill messages along with that unless the new althud comes with some leet new options to make those kind of messages independent...

The server I was playing on, and all ETPro servers I've seen have them separate. The death/kill messages were in the middle of the screen vertically, and on the left of the screen horizontally.

Radeon9.8kpunk · Post by **Radeon9.8kpunk** » Sat Jul 03, 2004 1:44 pm

it may not all fit on 640 by 480 but if u have to run a game that low who cares.

IdNotFound · Post by **IdNotFound** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 8:23 am

todd` wrote:
IdNotFound wrote:It is nice indeed, but there will be death/kill messages along with that unless the new althud comes with some leet new options to make those kind of messages independent...
The server I was playing on, and all ETPro servers I've seen have them separate. The death/kill messages were in the middle of the screen vertically, and on the left of the screen horizontally.

I think you missed my point. Although the objective warnings seem very nice by itself, they show up on the same location on the hud as the kill/death messages, cluttering it up and not making as readable as it looks. Chat messages are located somewhere else.

If what you're saying is that death/kill is showing up together with chat messages, then it sounds more like shrub to me. IIRC it has some sort of extra/replacement messages showing up there.