Trek HUD

barabis · Post by **barabis** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 5:15 pm

So here's my first attempt at a HUD, very much in the Star Trek theme. It's optimsed for a 1680 x 1050 display, so the hud.plist may need tweaking for other resolutions. I'll test other resolutions soon and include alternate hud.plist files if needed.

http://wiki.alioth.net/images/d/d9/TrekHud.zip

Sarin · Post by **Sarin** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 5:35 pm

Looks good. I'd make some mods tho, those gray edges should keep constant thickness, to give an impression of console lying in front of player.

Rxke · Post by **Rxke** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 5:48 pm

Way cool. I'm not a trekkie at all, but this looks good and usable :thumb:

barabis · Post by **barabis** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 6:00 pm

yeah photoshop isnt my strong point but ill give it a try

ramon · Post by **ramon** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 7:50 pm

i really like that and I'm not a trekky either - i love the scanner.

I think you could probably just do away with the grey bits altogether though.

barabis · Post by **barabis** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 7:59 pm

ok guys, thanks for the feedback. I'll do one with and one without (grey bit )and see what the general opinion is.

LittleBear · Post by **LittleBear** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 8:29 pm

Fantastic! Installed this as my default hud! Couple of minor tweaks to suggest: Its set a little high (although without the grey it would be fine) so it covers the mission screen a little. Maybe expand the box for energy bars a bit. Its fine for the Cobra IIII for 4 bars, but some of the big haulers (like the inbuild Boa or a expensive fighter like the Tiger) 7 energy bars, so they get squashed out of the box. Maybe also slightly expand the Missiles bit, as quite a few ships can carry 6. Looks Great though!

Screenie (Imperial Courier with 7 bars of energy and six pylons) - shows slight overlap with the mission screen:

pagroove · Post by **pagroove** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 10:00 pm

fantastic hud! I love Star Trek. But this is art in it's own way!

barabis · Post by **barabis** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 10:38 pm

http://wiki.alioth.net/images/d/d9/TrekHud.zip

Ive removed the grey texture around the HUD now and uploaded the updated oxp, tomorrow ill sort out the missiles and energy bars.

ovvldc · Post by **ovvldc** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 10:40 pm

Very pretty! I'd lose most or all of the clunky gray padding though.

Maybe just a thin black border to mark the visual transition to the HUD. Like the new macbooks

. With a fixed thickness around the main HUD part, without the bulging triangles on the top corners. That will emphasize the nice drawing work you've done.

Edit: The HUD already has a black border. Maybe make it slightly thicker, or just leave it at that...

Best wishes,
Oscar

Captain Tylor · Post by **Captain Tylor** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 7:10 am

Looks excelent!
Will wait download tonight

barabis · Post by **barabis** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 10:32 am

The issue where ships with 7 energy bars are not displaying the bars is due to the height for the bars being set to 20 in the hud.plist file. If its set high enough for 7 bars to look good then ships with 4 bars look too thick.

My preferred solution is to give any ship with 7 energy bars its own custom hud.plist with tweaked settings a slightly modified background image. I have managed to achieve this by including a modified shipdata.plist in the config directory within the OXP. The modified file includes a new "ship-player" object for the affected ship which points to the modified hud.plist file.

I just want to double check that there are no issues with this approach as I am not too familiar with the game architecture. It goes without saying that the only property I am changing is the hud property.

ClymAngus · Post by **ClymAngus** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 11:39 am

Ooo that's pretty. It's always interesting to see how people work around the round (or varying degrees of eliptical) scanner with the other (usually squarer) controls. One thing I do have to say is it's very clean (as in clean lined) Something I was trying to get with mine but didn't quite get as close as this does. I'd be interested to see how it plays. Still, got a hud built Woot!

barabis · Post by **barabis** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 11:46 am

I'd just like to add that the artwork was done by an artist Joe Ralat who kindly gave me permission to use his design as long as I credit his work, which I'll do as soon as I set up a wiki page for this hud.

I'm hoping to persuade him to create some more designs at some point but for now I'm just happy he gave me permission to use an existing design

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 12:04 pm

barabis wrote:
... as long as I credit his work, which I'll do as soon as I set up a wiki page for this hud.

You probably should do it in the OXP's readMe as well.

Okay, downloaded it. Credits are there, so forget my remark.

Would be really nice to get the energy bars issue sorted. My Imperial Courier has 8!

And I don't know if this is even possible, but would it be an idea to break the missile icons to two lines, in order to suit more than four of them? IIRC the most ridiculous ship I've ever seen has no less than 13(!) missile slots.