New GUI idea (for next empires version) with a picture

I really like the top-right of that, but the bottom left is just a little too minimal for me. I think it's the ammo counter that's putting me off, I'm just used to looking bottom right for it in just about every game I play.

 

I see. personally I think it works fine: it has all of the information that the current HUD has but without the blockyness and all your important data is in one place without compromising space.

 

hey now i found out how to remove the minimap Im happy the way it is, cool cheers broccoli

 

that most recent one, lithium, is absolutely fantastic. really impressive there, well done.

I hope this gets seen by the dev's and implemented for 3.0, that would be really nice.

 

then it is decided, that's my final HUD.

agreed?

 

I'd love to say yes...but it looks a bit strange - you have horizontal building health bars and vertical health/stamina/ammoz.

I tried to photoshop what I wanted to see, but gave up because i'm lazy and crap - basically I liked all of archs elements except his bottom left corner which was just a streamlined version of the norm. I love all that crap around the hud - as long as it's transparent and streamlined, compared to the current which is opaque and...has random blue in random places.

 

before I try to fix it, is that all that you think is wrong with my current one? (the horizontal turret/radar health bars) also I wont make a version with it all spread out around the screen, that's exactly what I dont like about the current one

also I wont try to make a new HUD from scratch anymore, the most recent one will be the last HUD except for minor adjustments

 

Swap the place of the info packet?

By that I mean that I would like to see the health, stamina, ammunation status and so on at the right-lower corner instead of left-lower corner.

But that could be a bad idea because then all the screen's "weight" would be on the right side and that feels like the screen is falling to its right side. Currently it is balanced but I'm just no used to have my health and so on thing at the left lower corner.

 

There's some things that are bugging me, just a couple - where is the resource counter? where will you put tank health/people in vehicle? And do you think the ticket counter is too small, or does it like fine on your master copy?

 

good points Ikalx. the resouce counter should really go under tickets i think, as top right seems to be for global things and bottom left personal.

I imagine in vehicle it would be as normal positions

 

tank position HUD is normal (i cant think of a way to improve it) the ticket counter looks fine for me but good point about the rescources

keep the suggestions comming, I want to make the next upload the last one.

 

emp_map_size
emp_map_toggle

 

http://img125.imageshack.us/my.php?image=empduststorm00026ew.jpg would make an amazing background.

http://img125.imageshack.us/my.php?image=empduststorm00002zs.jpg

fantastic. i wish dee would make some more she's a pro

what about
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/9499/empdistrict40200006ch.jpg

or
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i231/arn13_2006/emp_escort0004.jpg

or even
http://img364.imageshack.us/img364/2743/empduststorm0022ar9.jpg

 

maybe if someone with 16x AA and ANI @ 2048xwhatever would make the screenshots?

 

PrivateSandbag, you fail, wrong thread!

 

a) One of the first two
b) Isn't this the wrong thread?

 

Oh! And this is the best one, in my opinion.

 

ooops wrong thread

 

So I'm assuming that there's no other suggestions then

 

Done:

http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/3203/empescort0004eh9.jpg

By the way taking a background picture in a high resolution is the stupidest thing you can do... In order to convert to .vtf it needs to be divisible by the post of 2.

In short it has to be 1024x1024. The current background is the same resolution. It's advised to take a background picture in 1280x1024