Playing with the HUD design

Wolfwood · Post by **Wolfwood** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 4:22 pm

Haven't checked the kleptohud yet, but played around with the "dashboard" of my original design.

Worth developing further and releasing?

Myself, I'm especially happy with the slightly transparent image of the ship to the left, but I'm not sure if anyone else will think of it as cool... (easy to replace the current image (Cobra Courier) with almost any other ship)

lex_talionis · Post by **lex_talionis** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 5:38 pm

develop it, release it... and do it fast

Murgh · Post by **Murgh** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 5:39 pm

it looks quite hot. U should do a series

wonder if it wouldn't look even better if the blue grid was slightly more transparent..

Wolfwood · Post by **Wolfwood** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 8:27 am

Good point, Murgh. I changed it a little for the released version, but I must also say that the image above looks worse than it really was because of the resizing...

Still, the new version of the HUD is available at Oosat2 (http://oosat.alioth.net/node/50) and the package also includes a version for the standard Cobra Mk 3 - read the description to learn how it can be made to appear in the game if you do not already know:

Unfortunately, I did not manage to get a better looking render of the standard Cobra... In fact, in order to make this HUD available for some other ships, I'd basically need some nice looking renders of the ships from above - I don't have the models for Wings (the ones at Oosat do not include the textures) so I cannot make them myself...

Rxke · Post by **Rxke** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 8:52 am

Very, very nice!

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 10:14 am

All the models are available from the Asset Source folder in GUSTO. The textures are inside the Oolite application bundle under Mac OS X, and equivalent directory structures on the other platforms. (For OS X, control-click the Oolite application and select Show Package Contents; they’re in Resources/Textures. For Windows, it’s something like C:\Program Files\Oolite\oolite.app\Contents\Resources\Textures. For Linux, it should be much the same, only it obviously won’t be in C:\Program Files\.) If you can’t find them, they’re also in the source tree. There are also the various Python tools like Mesh2Obj (to convert Meshwork models to OBJ).

Possibly a new release of the Python tools and the currently-used models would be useful?

Wolfwood · Post by **Wolfwood** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 4:26 am

Hmm... There wouldn't be a simple python script to convert .dat back to .obj? I haven't seen one, but if it was easy enough to make for some local expert...

I have really no idea how to join an existing mesh model with a existing texture, unless they already come in a single package. And I'm using WinXP, by the way...

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 8:34 am

No, but there’s Dat2Mesh and Mesh2Obj.

…Which, on further investigation, don’t seem to actually work. They do, however, expose a bug in Dry Dock when trying to open an OBJ with no faces. Lucky me, eh?

I don’t know anything about Python. However, this does raise the priority of a command-line version of Dry Dock a bit.

Andrey A. Ugolnik · Post by **Andrey A. Ugolnik** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 10:47 am

Wolfwood wrote:
http://oosat.alioth.net/node/50

I try to get kleptohud, but this links seems invalid - "Page not found". Where i can download latest version.
Version that i have has bug - HUD and cross-chair always visible on screen (not only while flying, but in any menu).
I use Gentoo Linux and Oolite 1.65.

Dr. Nil · Post by **Dr. Nil** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 11:32 am

I think that all HUDs are visible on any screen? It's just that the KleptoHUD has graphics (the sight) in the middle of the screen. Or maybe it's just because the version I tried was the same bugged version as you got (using v.1.65 + WinXP).

The page not found is because Oosat2 has been down. For info about Winston's revival of Oosat2 read here: https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?t=2522

eon_designs · Post by **eon_designs** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 8:23 am

Where can I get hold of this superb HUD - the links to the OOsat site don't work?

Many thanks.

LittleBear · Post by **LittleBear** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 10:10 am

Oosat suffered a serious crash last month and Winston is still rebuilding it.

The new link to Oosat is:-

http://oosat.alioth.net

Only a few OXPs are up at the moment. It will probabley be a few weeks before they are all back up again.

Andrey A. Ugolnik · Post by **Andrey A. Ugolnik** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 10:13 am

eon_designs wrote:
Where can I get hold of this superb HUD - the links to the OOsat site don't work?

Just replace oosat.alioth.net on to oldsat.alioth.net.

Andrey A. Ugolnik · Post by **Andrey A. Ugolnik** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 10:46 am

Dr.-SPACE-Nil wrote:
I think that all HUDs are visible on any screen? It's just that the KleptoHUD has graphics (the sight) in the middle of the screen. Or maybe it's just because the version I tried was the same bugged version as you got (using v.1.65 + WinXP).

I use Linux version 1.65. Sight always on screen, it annoying me.

Wolfwood · Post by **Wolfwood** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 11:06 am

Andrey A. Ugolnik wrote:
Dr.-SPACE-Nil wrote:
I think that all HUDs are visible on any screen? It's just that the KleptoHUD has graphics (the sight) in the middle of the screen. Or maybe it's just because the version I tried was the same bugged version as you got (using v.1.65 + WinXP).
I use Linux version 1.65. Sight always on screen, it annoying me.

That's the problem with KleptoHUD. Just try one of my HUDs instead...