having issues with creating hud stuff in Scripting

Created on: March 02, 2023, 07:44:37 pm

so i been working on a map for a while and wanted to put in hud elements i got text based huds working fine but am having issues with making hud icons. do i need to create them as textures for referencing and also the function createicon in maps\mp\_hud_util just refuses to work it gives me unknown function and yes i tried both including it by #include maps\mp\_hud_util and calling the function from a function using a var and calling the function on it. ob maps\mp\_hud_util::createicon; also just tried calling the function directly without an object. honestly am stuck with no clue what to do to make it work.

Reply #1 on: March 11, 2023, 12:30:36 pm

gympie6
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Quote from: treyhexagon on March 02, 2023, 07:44:37 pm

so i been working on a map for a while and wanted to put in hud elements i got text based huds working fine but am having issues with making hud icons. do i need to create them as textures for referencing and also the function createicon in maps\mp\_hud_util just refuses to work it gives me unknown function and yes i tried both including it by #include maps\mp\_hud_util and calling the function from a function using a var and calling the function on it. ob maps\mp\_hud_util::createicon; also just tried calling the function directly without an object. honestly am stuck with no clue what to do to make it work.

I cannot remember I have every used this, for zombies I mostly used something simple like this:

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// You need to precache the image
PrecacheShader( "SHADER_NAME_HERE" );

// In .gsc when I create an perk on my hud I do something like this:
hud = create_simple_hud( self );
hud.foreground = true; 
hud.sort = 1; 
hud.hidewheninmenu = false; 
hud.alignX = "left"; 
hud.alignY = "bottom";
hud.horzAlign = "left"; 
hud.vertAlign = "bottom";
hud.x = self.perk_hud.size * 30; 
hud.y = hud.y - 70;   
hud.alpha = 0;
hud setShader( SHADER_NAME_HERE, 48, 48 );
hud scaleOverTime( .5, 24, 24 );
hud fadeOverTime( .5 );
hud.alpha = 1

I hope it helps

Reply #2 on: March 12, 2023, 12:25:02 am

I added easter egg items to my mod this might be useful if you want to have an item show up in the bottom right corner

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// First, you need to run the function wherever you want (like in another function when a player buys something or picks something up) and you can do that with:

    player item_hud_create("NAME_OF_TEXTURE");

// then just put the rest at the bottom of your script:

item_hud_create(item_texture)
{
        shader = item_texture;
        self.item_hud = create_simple_hud( self );
        self.item_hud.foreground = true; 
        self.item_hud.sort = 2; 
        self.item_hud.hidewheninmenu = false; 
        self.item_hud.alignX = "center"; 
        self.item_hud.alignY = "bottom";
        self.item_hud.horzAlign = "right"; 
        self.item_hud.vertAlign = "bottom";
        self.item_hud.x = -230;
        self.item_hud.y = -1; 
        self.item_hud.alpha = 1;
        self.item_hudSetShader( shader, 32, 32 );

        self thread item_hud_remove();
}

item_hud_remove()
{
    level waittill_any( "end_game", "PUT_OTHER_NOTIFY_HERE_IF_U_WANT" );
    
    self.item_hud destroy_hud();
    self.item_hud = undefined;

}

Last Edit: March 12, 2023, 12:25:41 am by John_Banana

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