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

guys, wrong thread.

again.

Anyways since no one is posting any suggestion im just going to work on the next version of the HUD tomorow and if you want to bitch at me for not including somthing its not my fault because I waited long enough

 

I think it's a great looking HUD, so I have no suggestions

 

Shitty thread anyway.

 

well exCUUUSEEEe me, Princess!

serously though, I just wanted to start discussion on how we could make the HUD better. The current one bugs the hell out of me. [sarcasm]Sorry for wanting to make empires better[/sarcasm]

 

i really want lithiums HUD. i want it NOW!

 

Lith's HUD is a big step in the right direction. Although i'm not 100% with it, it is greatly improved over the old and most people seem to like it a lot. Mayaswell go with it, as it seems it's only me who doesn't quite gel with it.

 

I still prefer the current HUD. I mean lith's is good but the current one just feels more empire-y

 

I agree. I like the way how the old one is. (Mostly.)

 

I felt the exact same way about the change of Halo's HUD.... but now of course i like the new ones a lot more

 

Lithium, if you could make your new hud feel more Empiresey, then i'd love to have it included. Right now it just doesn't have the right feel going for it.

 

Thanks guys. These are the kind of suggestions I was looking for.

 

so... making it empiresy!

well first thing is probably to add colour. all the bits that are currently translucent black could become the translucent blue colour we currently have all over the HUD. (and subsequently red if NF get a hud of their own).

I think that would help alot.

 

I thought up 2 colour combos

colour palete swaps:

colour combo #1

colour combo #2

minor changes:

-ammo counter changes depending on how big the mag is for the gun
-radar and turret health is vertical instead of horizontal

everything else is the same as the first Hybrid HUD

ps: when we decide on the colour for this HUD and if the devs decide to use it I'll work on a seperate NF HUD and then after that com HUDs

 

I like it, but I think the stick-figure guy should be replaced with a silouette of whatever class you're playing, and what team you're on, (or just an average soldier of the team you're on if that's too much) and color scheme 1 is great, but instead of the health indicators having bright white where it's empty, simply make it see-through.

P.S: The radar/camera indicator is not equally sized with the turret health indicator. Just a minor nitpick of mine.

 

feel free to nitpick: the more tiny issues that are fixed closer it'll be to being perfect.

also I originally said that I wanted it to be a shiloete of a soldier but I only use ms paint (gimp and others confuse me) so it'll be hard for me to do that

 

Ask someone good with photoshop or any other visual editing tool to take a screenshot of each of the soldiers in the SDK model viewer, and then mess around with the gamma/transparency/ect. until it looks good.

 

I really like that idea of having a picture of your class down there, that would be a good touch. but only sillohette, and non moving too, or people will expect it to prone/crouch when you do, and do the actions and hold weapons that you hold. which would definately reduce perfomance (hud elements, especially like that, take a good few frames per second off your time) and further more, would be confusing. just because your health it really small is that actually because you're crouched or at half health? etc

I do like both. very nice.

I think that the top of you when injured should not disappear completely but rather go very transparent. I just think that seeing a pair of feet there would look rather odd.

 

Here's a basic one for ya.

 

I still fail to see how shoving everything into one corner and making it tiny is "less cluttered."

 

It doesn't have to be small, but it can be. The actually information isn't much smaller than currently, except that all the extra wasted space taking up the screen isn't there.