Make it further down. I can't see half of the screen.

hey thanks, that looks awesome.

How come you guy never criticize BP when he posted his visor in his H2 pic but when I post it in my pic you just do it right away... what up with that?

Because yours covers most of the screen, while BP's only covers half of what you cover.

nvm
Edited by BeachParty clan on Aug 22, 2009 at 03:29 PM

No it doesn't his cover the most I saw how dark it was man

Or you can make it cover NONE of the screen...

Or better yet, make a blank visor and attach it and see if it blocks. If it doesn't then it's good.

I don't get it...

Make the visor completely white, and not transparent. Then, try playing against some AI with that, and see if it's easy or not.

BP's HUD wasn't an ingame pic, it was just to show the design of the HUD before he made it. IT's not a HUD yet, so we can't do much more that say whether or not we like the looks of it.Yours was an in game pic, so everyone is more able to make criticism on it.
And Stargate Fails, with a capital F.

Here's what we would see if you replaced the visor with a completely white visor.



Try playing a few games while only being able to see that much.

the difference is that if its transparent, it does mess with your view a bit, but you can still see through it

Actually, I've found that if I unfocus my eyes and move the mouse and walk around, I start to unconsciously block out the parts of my HUD visor. It's kinda weird.

Ehh you're right, how odd

its angled to much.

You're basing it on....?

It's custom dude, there is nothing wrong when it's custom. try another crackdown on me.

The elements are bulged out to much. It looks lame like that.

It's the same way when you wear glasses that flip the vision upside down for a week, you get used to them and your mind percieves it as a normal view, however once you remove them, it will be as when you first wore the glasses, thus requiring you to get used to the view again.

The mind is a weird thing people.

Okay, so I need advice. This completely stumped me and Polar Bear. I'm working on a Marathon-style hud, based on this:



working in the health bar.

I have a background:



and the meter.



The alpha on the background is completely white, and the meter is as you'd expect, black with a gradient over where the bar is.

So, these are the tags. (Background is not referenced in this picture)



In-game, the background renders perfectly. However the meter is half see-through. The meter seems to be rendering behind the background, so when the background is referenced I do not see the meter.

Background and meter referenced:



Only meter referenced:



What the tits did I miss something
Edited by Marka Haiyana on Aug 23, 2009 at 08:52 PM

You cant make the background all white, just alpha the lines.

If I did that, wouldn't it get rid of the black areas? I want to keep the black area

What I want is for the meter to render in front of the background, and not be see-through
Edited by Marka Haiyana on Aug 23, 2009 at 09:01 PM

The black area can be part of the metal thing.

metal thing?

You have to set alpha to 255 to make it totally opaque.

Furthermore, instead of making a seperate background, make the first alpha the same colour as the background, merging your background with the health meter. Then, set the health meter disabled colour to black, that means that the health that is gone, will leave a black background.
Now, you have to set your spawn to have 1 health value less ofcourse, take that into consideration of your alpha so you wont notice it ingame, script it in to set your health to 99 when it detects 100 health so your background will never dissappear.

Voila, that's all about it, if it doesn't work you probably did something wrong, because this is what I did with my ODST HUD to make a red background when the fatigue runs out, leaving a red trail.

If you have any more questions, add me on xfire if you havn't already. sar93

I'm not sure what you mean. The meters need to have gradient in the alpha in order to work. If I were to set the meter to have 225 alpha, the gradient would not work properly.

Could you go into detail?

Oh, and a glimpse of what I've got done so far hud-wise:



Based on:



Every weapon has an icon and a working meter.
Edited by Marka Haiyana on Aug 24, 2009 at 09:37 AM

I would broadcast it for you, or show my current ODST hud to prove/show the concept, but I don't have Halo installed atm, basically you want 1 alpha value of the gradient to stay, the rest will deplete.

Making this opaque in the correct way will keep the meter working

You know, you can even do it without the health script i mentioned, if you invert alpha in the tags

oh and, if you wanna show secondary weapon, well halo supports up to 5 if im correct, you can use gamma's script system which is refined by masterz through the use of fonts

Give me some time to port my halo data back and i'll send my odst hud tag that has the options set, you can work on teh rest meanwhile lol

btw if you're gonna use the background hud of marathons screenshot as really opaque, watch the order of which the hud elements are rendered

Fix the radar.

BP can you explain how to show the secondary weapon? so far iv seen 3 people talking about it but none of them will explain how to do it

Bp did it through the FP model.

Gamma did it through scripting I believe.

Gamma is working on Masterz method.

Better?




So what you're saying, is have an area of the alpha to be set to 1/1/1 RGB, and have the rest 255/255/255 RGB. The area of 1 will be the last to be depleted, while the 255 will gradually deplete toward wherever the area of 1 is?

Or are you saying to have 2 alpha channels?

Sorry, I'm a bit of a nub in photoshop heh

2 alpha channels will not work
i dont even think thats possible

yeah, that's why I'm a bit confused.

eh. progress.

http://www.xfire.com/video/11de7e/

off the top of my head.
Set the minimum meter value to 5

invert alphas

make your gradient

set the disabled color to the same values as default.

Please, got for an authentic hud, use an opaque background.

I've taken the background from a screenshot and cleaned it up as template for y00



It's the correct size, just make it tiff and compile, doesnt need any alpha. insert it in a slot rendered first so that the rest will overlay it.