The best HUD i ever made - sadly, it was the only HUD i ever made.

I dont know what u r trying 2 say but i hapen to go to art scchool so i thnk i kno a lot more then u on art stuff like hudz

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I agree...

With Petera275...

Omargawdz, what I'm trying to say through exaggerated ellipsis is that you're stating the obvious. We know what an overlay is, the word pretty much defines itself. Everything I have seen you post on the forum so far is in no way constructive.
Edited by Petera275 on May 25, 2011 at 01:42 PM

Ditto.

But it is fun to stalk him.

XD

I'll ditto that.

Overlays are an affectation of artistic imagination and only exist in game design; Never in real HUDS. I spent several years at a company where one of my projects was to design LED/LCD display controllers used in HUDs for both commercial and military application and that is where rule number one comes from. Or as one Colonel told us "make damn sure nothing in that HUD gets in our way".

In real life making statements like "the overlay wont distract too much" loses you the contract and gets people killed. Any distraction is too much. My portion of the project was was small and easy compared to the guys who had to figure out what to display because it had to be concise and the absolute minimum information needed so you wouldn't "distract too much".

Video game HUDs can have artistic elements, real HUD do not.

So, Dennis says realistic HUDs are plain and simple. Apparently, CoD is realistic. Now tell me what you think.


Edited by Petera275 on May 25, 2011 at 02:33 PM

Think yah got a broken link there.

But yeah it does make sense that they only display vital info.

Broken link? It works fine for me.

http://www.scclan-gamers.com/generalna-tema/black-ops-mp-screenshots/

They don't even have acronyms longer than four letters displayed. It might not look that plain and simple at first glance, but this is a fighter jet we're talking about. If you followed the same style to display information needed by someone on foot, we'd be talking:

AMMO: #/#
SHLD: %
HLTH: %
(Motion Tracker)

You'd be able to compress everything into the top right corner of the screen, aside from the motion tracker (which would probably stay put). That's about as plain and simple as it gets.

A compass on foot would be good too. Y'know, like the one on the Assault Rifle, but on the HUD. Being honest, you don't even need all of that on a jet. I've flown one, and it just had all of the info on a dashboard. All you need is the altitude, angle and objective, the rest is pretty much done by eye.

-Edit-

Did I mention I suck at landing?
Edited by Petera275 on May 25, 2011 at 02:48 PM

Most of that info is actually really nice to have.
What type of plane did you fly?

Realistic HUD (in Paint):

No idea about the model. It was nothing fancy, just a relatively small one with room for a pilot (me) and a copilot. It was bright yellow too. XD

I really should've taken a picture, but all I have photos of is the airfield, some gliders and a Virgin media hot air balloon.

-EDIT-

Good job echo. It's a lot simpler and the text is more military, less on the sci-fi futuristic side. One thing I've always found interesting is the amount of unnecessarily unique weapon reticules there are in Halo. As cool as they look, they're rather pointless.
Edited by Petera275 on May 25, 2011 at 02:58 PM

O meant like "jumbo jet, fighter jet, single prop, whatever"


And the Realism HUD could probably do without the motion tracker. I find it distracting. Maybe not others but well..

Nao with moar realistic compatible-with-everything reticle! :D

but iz that realy relistic because i dont thnk u wuold hav that in real life so th most realisic hud iz blank lol

Have you ever been inside a fighter jet? Or did you even see the picture above of the HUD in the fighter?

HUD's are not that hard to create. Using just NVG's you could probably have a HUD. WOuldn't be very useful but it would still be a Head's up display. Even cameras have a HUD.

Maybe you should go to elementary school too, I know 10 year olds who can spell better than you.

but this is halo. The helmet has to do something other than protect them.

Anyways, to make the hud even more simple, why not use the health and shield bars to make the aiming rectile? :P and for lawlz, toss the motion detector on top too so you can save more space.

XD

Here's a similar HUD design. Rubbish, I know:

Xhair too big. Xhair too bright.

His profile states hes 13, and his spelling supports that fact. It has to be some form of finger paint school.

Don't judge the age group by a group of idiots. In this case, I realise that is the majority. People of my kind are few in my community. I'm only 14, coming on 15.

Just to put this in perspective for some of you.

http://s9.zetaboards.com/HPT_Forums/topic/7228496/1/

Comp halo players set all their settings to lowest just to remove any visual noise.

This is true across just about every game that can be played competitively. TF2, SC2, Counter Strike/Source, etc.

I was friends with a lot of comp players back when I played tf2, and participated in lower level comp matches, and just about every single one had configured themselves a customized hud that took up even less space than the default one.

This is the default "minimal" tf2 hud.



This is the one a lot of my bros used.



In addition to this, they also lowered their settings below the minimum you can do with the normal settings menu via configs.

So pretty much the point I'm trying to make here, is that if you pull this stuff in a map, or anything similar in another game, you are pretty much immediately making your work unplayable to anyone who actually plays the game, in halo this isn't a big deal, since out competitively community is relatively small, and almost never plays on customs, but it's still something to keep in mind regardless, after all, they're not the only ones who will be irritated by big distracting overlays.

Ah yes. Source engine. In my opinion, Source and Unreal are some of the best engines out there that basically anybody can create an entire new game with.

wow ok so i didnt com 2 thz site 2 b insulted, so if u coud keep ur opinions 2 urself if ur just gonna insult me ty

Semper Fi noobs. Every time.

Welcome to halomaps. Enjoy you stay.

TBQH I doubt anyone here cares. Dennis might but I doubt it.

If you were referring to me, my comment was derivative of those with poor spelling and vocabularies, not you specifically. In terms of the insults, we just call them 'crit' here. You get used to it. Basically, welcome to the average sensitive person's hell.

Source?

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Edited by SeL on May 25, 2011 at 03:43 PM

Source WAS used to create Left 4 Dead. And that was pretty beast.

Source is very outdated and a humongous headache to use, UDK is superior in just about every way.

Oh, fine. I agree UDK is superior. Still, I think some of the bipeds are quite lifelike. And Portal 2 was Source, which was fairly popular, though rather monotonous and easy in my opinion.

SO why are you here? HCE's engine is even older.

And the Source engine is really nice. Maybe not so much as UDK but still.

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Portal 2 was a pretty amazing game. I doubt UDK could do something like that.
Edited by Skidrow925 on May 25, 2011 at 03:51 PM