Oolite Bulletins

Following a not-quite-request, on the Pandora Forums, I decided to make an updated OXZ version of Aegidean's  CompactHUD, taking advantage of the new 1.80 features.

It has a pair of the small-style MFDs, as well as both non-linear scanner and ultra-zoom modes enabled by default.

Available at the Wiki, or using the Expansion Manager.

Edit: The

• Witchspace Destination
• Joystick Precision Mode indicator
• Fuel Scoop status
• Waypoint display
• Primed equipment
• Compass beacon/waypoint id
• Cloak_indicator_on_status_light

are now all functional as well.

The OXZ has been updated to version 1.3.

CompactHUD is compatible with Norby's HUD Selector OXZ. This means that if you use the HUD Selector (which is optional), there is no need to uninstall any other HUDs before using CompactHUD. You can simply select it from the list of available HUDs.




(incidentally, this now makes 200 OXZs available for download)

I used this one for quite awhile in the past, I like simplicity. Very nice of you, Dizzy, to make an oxz of it .

Couple of things though, since HUDs have changed a bit since this was originally done. I suggest you adapt at least these from the default HUD:

* Waypoint display
* primed equipment
* compass beacon/waypoint id
* cloak_indicator_on_status_light (this might be on by default)

And maybe

* witchspace destination label (not on by default)

Very good suggestions.. I'll see what I can do.

I haven't played with waypoints myself yet.. so far as I know, the current NumericHUD doesn't support them.

Diziet Sma wrote:

Very good suggestions.. I'll see what I can do.

I haven't played with waypoints myself yet.. so far as I know, the current NumericHUD doesn't support them.

They are marked as recommended in the [wiki]OXP standards[/wiki], so they ought to be added to the NumericHUD too.

Looks like CombatHUD should have these as well. Thanks for the link to the OXP Standards page spara, as I hadn't seen this page before. Also worth mentioning there doesn't seem to be any mention of these in the HUD.plist page which was my source of reference and inspiration when updating CombatHUD.

Well, that was rather less painful than I expected, with the exception of drawWitchspaceDestination, which I just cannot seem to get working, so I've left it commented out for the time being.. no biggie, IMO, since the default HUDs don't implement it either.

Ok.. the

• Waypoint display
• Primed equipment
• Compass beacon/waypoint id
• Cloak_indicator_on_status_light

are now all functional.

OXZ has been updated to version 1.1.

Smivs wrote:

Also worth mentioning there doesn't seem to be any mention of these in the HUD.plist page which was my source of reference and inspiration when updating CombatHUD.

They're in the "selector" section, second paragraph.

Wiki wrote:

1.79 also adds: drawWaypoints:, drawPrimedEquipment:, drawASCTarget:, drawWitchspaceDestination:

What does drawWaypoints actually do and how does one use it? I keep seeing references to it but I can't find a solid explanation of exactly what it is or how it works.

- Neelix

drawWaypoints, as a HUD selector, just ensures that waypoints actually get drawn by the HUD. It doesn't do anything particularly interesting, it just needs to be there.

All the interesting stuff is in system.setWaypoint which lets you add a waypoint to a particular location in space (or move or remove a waypoint previously added)

Here's a picture of one up-close

If you're too far away to easily see it, you can see in the middle of the waypoint there's a blue square that looks a bit like a mining laser sight: that's also displayed on the HUD for distant waypoints to make them easier to locate.

cim wrote:

Smivs wrote:

Also worth mentioning there doesn't seem to be any mention of these in the HUD.plist page which was my source of reference and inspiration when updating CombatHUD.

They're in the "selector" section, second paragraph.

Wiki wrote:

1.79 also adds: drawWaypoints:, drawPrimedEquipment:, drawASCTarget:, drawWitchspaceDestination:

<Puts his glasses on>
Oh yes

Apologies for the slight derailment, but I'm re-jigging Combat HUD to incorporate these new features and I have a slight problem. I would like to left-align the "drawASCTarget" selector, but it is apparently right-aligned by default. Is there any way I can left-align it please?

It defaults to left-aligned. If you copied the entry from the standard HUD, you'll need to take out the align = 1; line.

Ah, this is because I'm trying to move it to the left side I think. Long legends extend further left than short ones and I want it the other way round. Is there a way round this?

Maybe post up what you've currently specified for that component in your hud.plist, since I'm not sure what could be going wrong? Over here, taking out the "align=1" (or explicitly saying "align=0", if you prefer) aligns it so that the left edge of the text is fixed and the rest of it is placed accordingly.

You've got to laugh, haven't you? I tried "align=0" earlier, but it moved the whole thing to the centre which is not what I wanted so I gave up on that - I didn't actually check how it behaved there though
As you say it is left-aligning nicely, so basically I just need to re-locate it from the centre and I should be OK.
As always, many thanks.