[CONCEPT ART] HUD Concept

[pigspigs76]

Hello! Here is a quick HUD/Menu concept I was looking to get some feedback on. It's still in the early stages of concept but being implemented slowly but surely

Ideally the hud and menu will be alive with some movement, fx and color driven properties ... but for now there is just this.

Perhaps this is merely UT inspired ...but hopefully it can promote some beneficial design discussion for everyone



-cheers

[JoeWilcox]

I'm not a big fan of z-axis transforms on a hud. It forces the eye to work harder for no reason. I do like the clean nature of some of though.

[1545arthur]

Not fan of z-axis too
I prefere an old one like the one of UT2K4 but with some changes

[Flak]

I like the style for sure, but I'm with everyone else on the tilted items.

The bottom right makes me happy

Are you working on this? Great job so far, eager to see what else you have in store!

[GreatEmerald]

I'm not a big fan of z-axis transforms on a hud.

Z-axis? But that's clearly the Y axis!

[HenrikRyosa]

Not in Unreal coordinates.

[Veggie_D]

If depth in the HUD is just done as swoopy wavy eye candy — "because we can" — well then yes, of course, that eye candy's sugary empty calories are going to burn off real fast.

But if the depth can add something, if it has some function, some subtle role in funneling the user's focus/attention toward certain parts of the screen for some reason, then I think it can still be worth considering. Indeed, some games do make good, conservative use of this effect, and it works well.

So while I share the rather cautious sensibility, generally, IMO it might be a mistake to prematurely just throw out the idea altogether.

[GreatEmerald]

Not in Unreal coordinates.

If by "transform" you mean "draw a line that shows the Z coordinate and then rotate the widget around it", then that's true, but my line of thought is more of "the left part of the widget is closer to the camera while the right part is further from it", i.e. the widget's coordinates are moved in the Y axis and not moved in the Z axis.

[InVader]

Z-axis? But that's clearly the Y axis!

^ hehe, OpenGL guy.

In OpenGL the Z-axis is the depth (towards cam, behind you) and Y is up accodring to the standard. In DirectX the standard is Z-axis up, Y is depth (away from cam, forward). So on the image the hud elements are rotated around the Z axis according to DX standards

If you mean shearing though, you're right, it's Y-axis in DX.

[Blackcrack]

humm, why can we have various HUD's theme like .. one is an Sniperer,
one is an walker or the other it is Monsterhunter with heavy weapons and something..
the default design should be the UT99, this can be overholen/beef up/vamp up or camp up..
with maybe plugins/snapins as zip maybe .. selectable by an dropdown menu

UE4UT-HUD-Standard_UT99.(zip).ue4hud
UE4UT-HUD-Henriks_Menu_UI_and_HUD.(zip).ue4muhud
UE4UT-HUD-TheHightCastle.(zip).ue4hud
UE4UT-HUD-Unreal3.(zip).ue4hud
UE4UT-HUD-OpenGL.(zip).ue4hud
UE4UT-HUD-OpenGLBrutalo.(zip).ue4hud
UE4UT-HUD-NVidiA.(zip).ue4hud
UE4UT-HUD-ATI.(zip).ue4hud
UE4UT-HUD-UT2003.(zip).ue4hud
UE4UT-HUD-UT2004.(zip).ue4hud
UE4UT-HUD-UT2007.(zip).ue4hud
UE4UT-HUD-XMP.(zip).ue4hud
UE4UT-HUD-ClanXXX.(zip).ue4hud
UE4UT-HUD-Monsters.(zip).ue4hud
UE4UT-HUD-Invasion.(zip).ue4hud
UE4UT-HUD-Monstermasher.(zip).ue4hud
UE4UT-HUD-MonsterHunters.(zip).ue4hud
UE4UT-HUD-MH_Ultragore_UT99.(zip).ue4hud
UE4UT-HUD-Sniperer.(zip).ue4hud
UE4UT-HUD-Marins.(zip).ue4hud
UE4UT-HUD-Undercover.(zip).ue4hud
UE4UT-HUD-TribleX.(zip).ue4hud
UE4UT-HUD-Spy.(zip).ue4hud

and so on ..

Standard Hud Theme:[_Standard_UT99_[^]
Users standard/jump back Hud Theme:[_MH_Ultragore_UT99_[^]
Auto-use-Server-HUD-theme, when entering the server [X]

and by mishmash or errors jumps back to the UT99 standard HUD .
With it is possible for create different UTengine4 hud's

and any can use this hud what he want and like,
so it is the ut highest customizable in this direction

the theme-HUD-files can consist of
an css-file or/& inifile
and the to need grafics..
(the best maybe png's and animated gif's and ttf-rendering for use ttf in the hud
and console theme-related also able for translation in different languages in xml style,
also easy to make for (human)translators and if give no translation file can maybe
use google-translationengine or bing-translationengine .. maybe automatic)

And the Designers have something to do also
greetings to Deviantart-Peoples


so it is also able for autodownloading the theme-releaded Server HUD
if it in the control's enable :

Download-Server-HUD-theme [X]
Autoinstall-Server-HUD-theme [X]
Auto-use-Server-HUD-theme, when entering the server [X]
Save the Theme-Hud in UT Folder/downloads [X]

[offtopic](
the same should be able with the Player avatars where should saved inside of the UTfolder/downloads)
for saving and autoreinstall in the game for view the other avatars also what they use in the Game (automatical download&&install)
Enable upload your Playeravatar for see in the game by others [X]

Download player avatars from the players [X]
Autoinstall player avatars[X]
save the avatar-files in UT Folder/downloads [X]

UE4UT-GreatEmerald.(zip).ue4avatar
UE4UT-HenrikRyosa.(zip).ue4avatar
UE4UT-Flak.(zip).ue4avatar
UE4UT-Kralls.(zip).ue4avatar
UE4UT-Xan-Mark4.(zip).ue4avatar
UE4UT-Swamp-Skaarj.(zip).ue4avatar


but this is offtopic in this tread
)[/offtopic]

therewith it is possible for the Serverowner to use different hud's for different Server/Games .. like in UT99
my die Friend Pizzi from stronger-monsterhunt.de had let run more as 12 UT99 servers on his rented Server,
so various game types.. from stronger-monster-hunt with ultragore , up to sniper and "return to napali" and much other !

and the zipped files make it more easyer for put in an folder and use..
so put it easy in /UnrealTournament/Downloads
and by selecting the menu, autoinstall the avatars and/or the HUD from the download-folder..
it's also more easy for distributing at end, upload/download and the zip,
it is possible for become open source zip it is possible for use zipfs for all systems ..
so, read out the files for using..
and the hud and avatar need only read..

best regards
Blacky