Hello people of Halomaps, I create this thread today in the hopes of gaining some inspiration for a custom HUD. I come empty handed simply because I have no inspiration at the moment, which I hope will change soon. What I am proposing is for you, the people, to provide some practical concepts for a HUD. You can submit drawn ideas, photo shopped ideas, or anything that will express your idea to me effectively.

In short, someone give me a custom HUD so I can make it.

My only rules and limits are:

1) No copies of HUDs created in any other game.

2) No heavily ridiculous ideas. (within the game's limits.)

3) Would be great if it was compatible with many weapons, even if it requires a small icon change.

4) Must display shields and health in some way.

And of course I won't let you guys have all the fun as I am going to draw and design a HUD in my spare time at school. Since I am an over achiever IRL, I always finish my homework days before it's due so that means I never take my textbooks and notebooks home, so that kind of limits my ability to draw at home, which is why I am relying on you guys for ideas.


Here are some HUDs that have come into existence over the past few years.

Halo 3

See how the HUD quickly and directly communicates the amount of ammo in the clip, and amount of ammo in reserve? And the grenades amount is also told for both of them.

It's these things that are important when designing a HUD which is how easily the user can interpret what the HUD is saying. All of these elements can be seen in the HUDs of almost any game.

Halo 2


Call of duty MW2


CMT snow grove.


These are all re-occurring things in almost all games and should be considered.

Edited by jesse on Mar 15, 2011 at 12:50 AM
Edited by jesse on Mar 15, 2011 at 12:53 AM

1st - Beer Goggles - make all MC's you see as thin, hawt women as damage/drinking increases.

2nd - No damage meter - but use multiple cracks in the hud to illustrate damage severity, with the final damage amount as a general blur - maybe even a scripted blur effect/labored breathing sound (dialogue sounds).

3rd - Diving Mask - sorta like a zoom mask, with areas outside of primary vision field blurred

Number 3 reminds me of the HUD used when you play as that CIA guy in black ops wearing the HAZMAT suits.

I always kind of liked the Star Wars Republic Commando HUD:


(sorry for small picture)

this is nice




Edited by 6thLoneWolf on Mar 15, 2011 at 03:35 PM

An exact copy?

You can take inspiration from other games, but no exact copies. See Lone Wolf's first picture? That's exactly what I'm looking for. That one looks really good IMO. Keep bringing these suggestions!

Mai dual wield HUD plox?
Anyways, maybe something like this. I suggest this kind of layout, not colors or anything. White colors would be cool.

I mean, if you want something different, why not put heath at the bottom and radar at the top?
The heath, shield, ammo, and grenades are centered. I just think HUD stuff in the corners gets old. However, the radar and gametype don't need to be centered, so I guess put them in corners like shown. Dunno how you stand on the left/right aspect of it. Maybe a little bit more ambidextrous, maybe flip it around. I don't know.
Edited to at least show the pic
Edited by SlappyThePirate on Mar 24, 2011 at 06:19 PM

Slappy, get on xfire please, there is something I have been wanting to tell you for weeks.

What about doing something different with the shields - instead of it being just a bar, like in most of the HUDs out there, you could maybe try something circular? Dunno if that could work, maybe the circle recedes into the centre or something? I don;t know how clear that would e to the player though, might be more difficult to gauge.

@Slappy: That is the most beautiful thing I have seen in ages :3

EDIT

Dunno if this would work, again, but I am all for minimalism, however I would need to play in illustrator and PS to see if this would be possible. How about clustering the information in a curt, precise form around the reticule, keeping the alphas low so that it remains visible but is at that border stage where it isn't distracting from shooting at enemies? If it wasn't too busy, so to speak, it might work, and that way all the information you need (perhaps health and ammo only) would be right where you are looking?

Again, might be horrendously distracting, I'm sure there's a reason I've never seen it tried...
Edited by Diaboy on Mar 16, 2011 at 08:16 AM

Is this for Sandtrap? When is Sandtrap V2 being released?

Don't you think if it was for Sandtrap, it'd be in the Santrap thread? makes sense to me

The Sandtrap v2 thread was locked a while back.

I don't like the ammo being displayed on the left. Apart from Halo 1, all the Halo games (and most FPS games) display the ammo on the right side of the screen for one simple reason: that's where the gun is. It sort of makes sense that the two would be close to each other.

I started something... a hud :\
Edited by Sceny on Mar 24, 2011 at 09:02 AM

Any progressssszz!?!?

It all depends on you, the people :)

That recon visor doesn't count.

I think I might go after something that's CMT styled with a bar as a weapon meter.

About CMT, why not to make a CMT hud with some perspective and nicer?
Just saying. I have a cool hud concept, but i will make it later

Meh D:

not finished, ignore colors!
Edited by Sceny on Mar 25, 2011 at 06:18 PM

What happened to the elite hud??

Make a new CMT HUD for MPG4/my test map :V

That hud looks excellent.

Are you just going to keep it to yourself or release it publicy?

Will be released somewhat soon. I just figure my older h3 hud is good enough for most people... guess not :P

That hud is epicly sexy.

Dam i wanna get my hands on that

I dislike the selected grenade circle, its kinda too big.

Yeah i notcied that too

ancient concept. If I put time in to this, I might concoct something good.

Everything seems good about this hud^ but the health meter seems a bit off

radar's the only thing that bugs me. Do games ever put it on that side?

I think some shooters put it on the right, but not on the bottom. Whatever, though.

my hud (meh)

Not really. Just found it odd.
:/

I just tried to be different, but it won't work anyway because the weapon is on the right side of the screen.

my hud :P

Edited by 6thLoneWolf on Mar 29, 2011 at 12:13 AM