[RELEASE] CRR-HUD

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[RELEASE] CRR-HUD

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Coluber Works and Shipyards Ltd. releases a new hud. The CRR-HUD was especially designed for the Coluber Red Racer heavy fighter (see https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=11206) but the hud is also available as a separate software upgrade for other ships.

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FEATURES:
- simple one-config-file hud with no scripting;
- bigger scanner;
- bigger space-compass with integrated gauges for pitch, roll an yaw;
- newly-arranged gauges;
- new position of the comlog- and message-gui;
- additional control lights for energybomb, ECM, escapepod, shieldenhancements, energybanks,
galhyperdrive, docking computers and fuel-injectors;
- customized, integrated crosshairs;
- scales

You can download the new hud here:

Current version:
Version 1.0: http://www.box.com/s/k6a75kq6a2kdsh54djsr

If you find any bugs, please report them.

Version history:
1.0 First release

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Re: [RELEASE] CRR-HUD

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Looks really nice - clean.

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Re: [RELEASE] CRR-HUD

Post by Cmdr. Maegil »

Looks real nice - but IMO, for being cluttered... in a nice, tech-y way, that is. It passes the feeling that one definitively should read the manual before using.

It's a surprise to me that now one can make up gauges and functional icons for the HUDs.
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Re: [RELEASE] CRR-HUD

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Very nice design Captain Beatnik, simple, yet enhanced functionality on the guages, no manual required and easy to understand at a glance. Very nice indeed. :D
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Thanks for this. I use this hud since today as my new standard hud. Excellent design! :D
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Re: [RELEASE] CRR-HUD

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CommonSenseOTB wrote:
Very nice design Captain Beatnik, simple, yet enhanced functionality on the guages, no manual required and easy to understand at a glance. Very nice indeed. :D
Yes, I agree! Added it to the [wiki]OXP List[/wiki], apparently I missed it earlier.
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That is impressive work.
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Re: [RELEASE] CRR-HUD

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Hello,

I've discovered that under v1.77 the "Energy Gauge" indicator bar in this HUD doesn't display properly - instead of the solid bar in 1.76, it appears to be no bar with a thin line running through it. It's not possible to see how much energy is left (until you get "Press Space Commander" :cry: ).

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Re: [RELEASE] CRR-HUD

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This is a bug in 1.77, and will be fixed in the next release. The n_bars setting is not being read properly in the HUD definition. Apologies for not catching this before release.

There is a workaround for this problem. Open the hud.plist file, and insert "n_bars = 1" at the top.

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{
	// workaround for 1.77 bug
	n_bars = 1;

	// C R O S S H A I R   S E T T I N G S
	crosshair_scale		=  32.0;
	crosshair_width		=   1.5;
This will make the HUD display properly again in 1.77.
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Re: [RELEASE] CRR-HUD

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cim wrote:
This is a bug in 1.77, and will be fixed in the next release. The n_bars setting is not being read properly in the HUD definition. Apologies for not catching this before release.

There is a workaround for this problem. Open the hud.plist file, and insert "n_bars = 1" at the top.

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{
	// workaround for 1.77 bug
	n_bars = 1;

	// C R O S S H A I R   S E T T I N G S
	crosshair_scale		=  32.0;
	crosshair_width		=   1.5;
This will make the HUD display properly again in 1.77.
Thanks for this - all working again.
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Re: [RELEASE] CRR-HUD

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Would this issue also be responsible for this anomaly that has appeared on my Combat HUD (and others)?

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Re: [RELEASE] CRR-HUD

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No, that's a completely different (and previously unknown) HUD display problem.
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cim wrote:
No, that's a completely different (and previously unknown) HUD display problem.
OK, well it's appeared since I installed v1.77 and seems to affect the CombatHUD, and others derived from it such as the custom HUDs the Clippers have as well. Nothing in the log as far as I can see.
These were all rendering correctly under v1.76.1. :(
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Smivs wrote:
cim wrote:
No, that's a completely different (and previously unknown) HUD display problem.
OK, well it's appeared since I installed v1.77...
Did you not have a trunk version (that became 1.77) installed at any time?
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El Viejo wrote:
Smivs wrote:
cim wrote:
No, that's a completely different (and previously unknown) HUD display problem.
OK, well it's appeared since I installed v1.77...
Did you not have a trunk version (that became 1.77) installed at any time?
No. I D/L'd one just prior to becoming ill, but never installed it. So I've never had a trunk version installed, I just upgraded my main install from 1.76.1 to 1.77.
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