I ran a search and didn't find this.

Could someone point me in the direction of the tutorial of how to create a HUD like the (Halo 3 one), and if you don't know of a tut of hand could you atleast tell me the dimensions I should work with in Photoshop.

Also do I just put make the design in Photoshop(color and all) and then create an Alpha channel for the .TIFF?

Thanks for any help.

This video made by TheGhost will provide you with the insight you need.
http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=1214

This video also made by TheGhost will give you some more explanation of the hud in general.
http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=2646

Thanks for reading my post this was very insightful....



See what I'm looking for is how do I setup a HUD display that is like H3 where the visor design is a constant on the screen not how to modify weapon pick ups and ammo. Also I would really like the dimensions I should work in.
Edited by YakZSmelk on Mar 3, 2009 at 02:59 PM

imagine the canvas for the screen as halo's lowest resolution, 640 x 480. all offset values in the hud tag are scaled to that value
as for the visor, halo wont compile a sprite that is 640x480 because its too big, so what do we do?
scale that resolution by 2/3. we get 480x360. so draw your visor on a 480x360 canvas. when you are done, add 2 pixels to both sides so the resolution becomes 482x362, so you can add the blue border. now apply this the first section of the unit_hud_interface tag for the biped and scale it horizontally and vertically by 1.33333 and check off "use hi res scale"
ingame the visor may be a little off from the anchor (which should always be the upper left corner). if this occurs, set the x and y offset to -8.
PM me if you have any more questions because i dont usually hang out in tech support, although by the looks of things, i probably should

umm donut i wound't put it on unit_hud_interface tag because if you driving a vehicle the visor won't go away so it'll be better put it on the weapon_hud_interface tag instead... sorry for that...

Is there a tutorial for SHIELD bars?

Kirby's Health Bar Tutorial makes Health bars, basically the same as Shield bars.

And Ghost's Ammo Meter Tutorial makes Ammo meters, and can be used to make shield bars instead.

yes but you are supposed to be looking through your helmet when you see the hud right? when you get in a vehicle, you still see all that hud stuff, so why no visor? im keeping it in the unit hud interface.
however you CAN put it in the weapon hud interface like bankhead suggested