[Preview] Visual HUD - public beta release

[pikaluva13]

Another update

http://visualhud.pk69.com/resources/images/logo_v2.png

1. Finally visualHUD has it's own logo, hooray!
2. Fixed rounded corners, now they works as expected, team colors support have been added
3. Added "hairline" option for all rectangle boxes with width or height set to 1 (this will make them really thin). Sometimes this behavior isn't needed, so I make it optional
4. Fixed output menu file code formatting (thx to Kyto for pointing on this)
5. Fixed critical health indicator (no more blinking if health icon is not present)

Great job as always! (I haven't tried it since I made my hud...but my hud works great lol)

[Orgazmo]

I'm gonna try it when I get back from work.

[g0vn0r]

In EXTRAS, it would be nice to have:

- demo record message (displayed in the lower part)
- framerate (as displayed in the upper-right corner by using cg_drawFPS)

When positioning hud items, people don't want these getting in the way and causing overlaps at runtime.

Keep up the good work.

[malk_]

C'mon, I'm not going to sell it anyone.

Nice move, honestly. But you asked for cons. its the only thing I can imagine.

There are some ways to make the software open source. You should choose a license (like gpl, creative commons, etc) and make the sourcecode available for download. Done the license usually states that people are allowed to use it but are not allowed to sell it. Also, if I deceide to download it, alter it, and realease 'malks improved visual hud generator', I have to give credits to you and usually have to publish it under the same license.

The benefits are obvious. The project won't die even if you stop working on it. There is at least the possibility that someone picks up the code and continues the work. Also ppl could host it themselves (might be another con if you plan ads or smth).

[jimday]

local time request. like this http://www.quakelive.com/forum/showt...me-to-your-HUD

[*nuane]

This is completely awesome, I love the import function.

A few suggestions:

1. I want one continuous health/armor bar. I don't like how 200hp/armor is split in two as if it was somehow significant. Is that a limitation of quake live or your own decision? Workaround is to align two health/armor bars side-by-side and depending on which direction you prefer it to drain make one show H100 completely transparent. Having an option to do that in visualhud would avoid this hassle.
http://imgur.com/FJlM7

2. Where is no indication which score board has animation for then your and/or enemy team holds flag. If I knew that I would not have tried the smallest one first.

3. Everything is very small, offer at least 2x zoom.

4. Making custom crosshair is difficult partially because how small everything is, but also because how rectangles are shown. What if I wanted dotted lines for example? It would probably look very messy in visualhud.
http://imgur.com/aPIfd

5. "Extras: Item pickup" does not show me time of then item was taken by me as shown in preview. How can I enable this?

#edit: I now understand what "extras" really means

6. Then you align "Graphical obits" to the right edge of screen then the second name will be very often cut off:
http://imgur.com/GYOzh

[*Jolinaar]

I have a request to make. It would be nice to have the ability toggle some items of the HUD, would just need to add a line with showcvar + a line that let us type what cvar name we want iirc. So for evey item that you drag and drop it will have the option that let you type the cvar name we want to make it appear.

That would be awesome !

Here is a picture to ilustrate my idea since my english is far from beeing good : http://img833.imageshack.us/i/hudtest.jpg/ (click zoom to see in theright i added 'toggle item' and 'toggle CVAR name')

Best regards.

[crucci]

It'd be nice to be able to edit the hud in fullscreen

[namad]

Hey, thanks for feedback

Check my comments below.

1. I want one continuous health/armor bar. I don't like how 200hp/armor is split in two as if it was somehow significant. Is that a limitation of quake live or your own decision? Workaround is to align two health/armor bars side-by-side and depending on which direction you prefer it to drain make one show H100 completely transparent. Having an option to do that in visualhud would avoid this hassle.
http://imgur.com/FJlM7

Well, it was made the same way as native QL health/armor bars. They have separate bars for 100H and 200H. Your workaround is correct btw, not sure if I need to offer single bar since it's not that flexible as double one.

2. Where is no indication which score board has animation for then your and/or enemy team holds flag. If I knew that I would not have tried the smallest one first.

Ask yourself, do you really need this animation? )

3. Everything is very small, offer at least 2x zoom.

This is a pretty annoying issue, I know. But right now, original HUD parsed by QL engine is limited to 640x480 canvas. All elements are resized beased on current screen resolution. So, when you draw 1px line, on bigger screens it could be more that 1px (in my case, I'm using 1680x1050, so 1px line drawn as 2px line). Thats why I put [] hairline option to the rectangle tool. If you want to know, it's just set the width under 1px so you will always get a 1px line no matter what your resolution is.

Using bigger canvas could be real pain in the ass since I have to recalculate everything before saving a HUD into config file. That's why I've decided to leave is as is.

4. Making custom crosshair is difficult partially because how small everything is, but also because how rectangles are shown. What if I wanted dotted lines for example? It would probably look very messy in visualhud.

Such a crosshair could be nice to have, but I'n my opinion it's to "advanced" to be fully supported by vusualHUD editor.

6. Then you align "Graphical obits" to the right edge of screen then the second name will be very often cut off:

It's because graphical obits are left-aligned and this behavior can't be changed, so you couldn't align them to the right edge without clipping.


Cheers!

[namad]

It'd be nice to be able to edit the hud in fullscreen

yeah, I 100% agree with you