[WIP]Halo 3 HUD

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Originally Posted by p0lar_bear

I hate to be a party pooper, but I'll let you know of a few things that are not possible with HUD interfaced in CE that the H3 HUD does, so you don't waste time and effort:

• Stored weapon icon
• Scoreboard in the bottom right corner
• Number of grenades of the type you're not using
• The awesome screen refresh on spawn

Unless you already knew this.

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H1 has a stored weapon icon, and it's possible to show the number of the grenades you're not using. CMT did it for their HUD, if I remember correctly.

No to both.

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Originally Posted by CabooseJr

Tell Me that was sarcastic..... and beta build is only for the beta build, and no i will not add the beta build text.

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Of course.

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Originally Posted by Explosive American

H1 has a stored weapon icon, and it's possible to show the number of the grenades you're not using. CMT did it for their HUD, if I remember correctly.

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I did the SPv1 HUD. I know what I'm talking about. Neither thing is possible.

Halo 1's HUD interface system works as such:

• First, you have the Unit HUD Interface (unhi), which is defined in any unit tag (bipd, vehi). If one is referenced, it is rendered, and a unhi contains any sort of static background (like if you wanted a border to appear on the HUD), outlines and meters for health and shields, the background for the motion sensor, auxiliary outlines and meters (actually, the only auxiliary function is the unit's integrated light), and team icon backgrounds.
  
• If the unit is holding a weapon, then it renders the weapon's Weapon HUD Interface (wphi). That tag contains definitions for backgrounds, meters, and HUD numbers that can be tied to all sorts of things (magazine ammo, reserve ammo, heat, age, charge), reticle definition, then zoom and nightvision properties (mask, screen convolution, tint), and then finally there's a block where you can define the pickup icon and strings.
  
• Finally, if the unit has grenades in their inventory, the game checks to see what grenade is ready, then checks the Game Globals (matg) tag to get what the proper Grenade HUD Interface (grhi) tag is. Grhi tags contain the background, foreground, icon (overlay), and number.

Halo 2's HUD interface is very much different from what I hear; instead, each unit has a HUD interface tag that contains all of the bitmap and coloration info, and I think weapon icons and meters are defined in the weapon tag. This is why Halo 2 is able to display reserve weapon icons, and reserve grenade counts, and Halo 1 can't.

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Originally Posted by p0lar_bear

I did the SPv1 HUD. I know what I'm talking about. Neither thing is possible.

Halo 1's HUD interface system works as such:

• First, you have the Unit HUD Interface (unhi), which is defined in any unit tag (bipd, vehi). If one is referenced, it is rendered, and a unhi contains any sort of static background (like if you wanted a border to appear on the HUD), outlines and meters for health and shields, the background for the motion sensor, auxiliary outlines and meters (actually, the only auxiliary function is the unit's integrated light), and team icon backgrounds.
• If the unit is holding a weapon, then it renders the weapon's Weapon HUD Interface (wphi). That tag contains definitions for backgrounds, meters, and HUD numbers that can be tied to all sorts of things (magazine ammo, reserve ammo, heat, age, charge), reticle definition, then zoom and nightvision properties (mask, screen convolution, tint), and then finally there's a block where you can define the pickup icon and strings.
• Finally, if the unit has grenades in their inventory, the game checks to see what grenade is ready, then checks the Game Globals (matg) tag to get what the proper Grenade HUD Interface (grhi) tag is. Grhi tags contain the background, foreground, icon (overlay), and number.

Halo 2's HUD interface is very much different from what I hear; instead, each unit has a HUD interface tag that contains all of the bitmap and coloration info, and I think weapon icons and meters are defined in the weapon tag. This is why Halo 2 is able to display reserve weapon icons, and reserve grenade counts, and Halo 1 can't.

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Sounds like it just makes it harder for HUD making.

Well, if they figure out a way to fix it.

..You can't just "fix" how tags are created.

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Originally Posted by p0lar_bear

The awesome screen refresh on spawn

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Actually D:

Spawn effect, spawn a plane with a chicago shader on it that animates.

It's helluva sloppy, but it would work.

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Originally Posted by Lightning

..You can't just "fix" how tags are created.

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Actually D:

Spawn effect, spawn a plane with a chicago shader on it that animates.

It's helluva sloppy, but it would work.

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You'd see it in 3rd person, though, right? Would it be attached to the head marker?

"Attatch" it to the first person gun model mb?

except then you can't set when you can see it/when you can't.