MM8BDM Doom-Style HUD (revamp V0.5 release)

[-FiniteZero-]

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So, I'm not sure if this is exactly where to put this. It's not complete yet, but I want feedback before I continue it. Once completed, it should probably be moved to the "Skins" topic. If it should be there in the first place, please move it there.

Anyways, I like classic FPS games, like Doom and Quake. I notice a trend of HUD bars that tell you everything you need to know (health, armor, ammo, ect). MM8BDM doesn't have this, instead going more for how it was represented in the Classic games.

This is an attempt to take the Classic health meters and put them on an FPS bar, based a bit on the Gameboy series HUD. It's probably less useful than the normal HUD, due to obscuring slightly more of the screen. It's really just because I like consistency between my FPS games, so yeah.

This is what I have:


It's a work in progress. I'm thinking of basing it on the weapon select menu of MM1 and MM2, so that would add a border.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/5a0hqn5zhalx88g/doomhudv03.wad

Below are screenshots. They are of the previous version, however the difference is only in team colors.

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Please give feedback, and let me know any ideas on this you may have.

This HUD replaces the horizontal bar HUD.

Updated for Version 5. The new weapons will function properly with this, and the new team bars have been updated to include the new team colors. I have also used different team sprites so that the Cossack and Team bars fit in better with the Light and Wily bars.

So I decided to give this one more revamp, as I had some ideas to make this look a lot better. Basically, I decided redesign it to make it more Doom-like, what with the numbers instead of bars. Though, I added tiny health and ammo meters in the center as to give a quick frame-of-reference of how much of either you have at a glance. I still need to add in something to dictate teams for teamgames, most likely a swappable icon of some sort next to the frag counter. There are a few more minor things I want to fix up, but I just wanted to get this out there and get feedback.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XKtmkqFQBNDF8iZqzaq2ZcO11NhHdB7M/view?usp=sharing

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An example of what the new design is:

As you can see, I have based the design on the mock-up robot-master-frame for Rockman & Forte FC. Too bad that demake never got made, oh well.

[Laggy Blazko]

I suppose the "Doom-style" part is somewhat misleading.
I expected a status bar with a mugshot, heheheh.

[Ivory]

Same, I went in expecting an 8 bit doom HUD. Complete with Mega Man's mugshot doing all of the classic doom guy mugshot expressions.

[SmashTheEchidna]

You should totally do that.

[-FiniteZero-]

It IS a pretty good idea. The Mega Man face could go right there in the center.

Unfortunately, I'm not very good at pixel art, so...

[Vajaran Nall]

This actually isn't such a bad idea though, I mean, you could have the weapon energy on one side and health on the other and just have the doom widget replaced with Mega man' head. It seems like a mod cutman Mike would consider. This is a good idea man, but what about that part of the screen that it covers?

[Vajaran Nall]

The hud syhhould change based on the Mega man game you're on.

[-FiniteZero-]

The hud syhhould change based on the Mega man game you're on.

If that even is possible, I don't have the skills to do it.

[-FiniteZero-]

UPDATE:

I have a new mockup of it, this time based off of the MM2 weapon selection screen.



This also adds the face people want, as well as a frag counter. While I lack the skills to draw Mega Man in various states of disrepair, one thing I might be able to do is change the face depending on which skin you're using.

[Laggy Blazko]

Perhaps it would need every skin to have its own set of faces. Skins having custom faces is possible but you would have to "redefine" them. Not to mention the required amount of new graphics.
It looks nice, though.

[PotatoStrike]

But in the developpement of MM8BDM, skins don't have a crouch animation...
Can you make some please? I'm sick of seeing flat Megamen.

[Laggy Blazko]

Those would take a lot of time. And 8BDM isn't designed for enabled crouching anyway.

[-FiniteZero-]

Bump for alpha release.

[Laggy Blazko]

It's good. Well done.

I suggest using the height command so it doesn't block most of the weapon and the map's name in the automap. The regular Doom status bar uses it.
http://zdoom.org/wiki/Default_status_bars

[-FiniteZero-]

Ah, and it also fixed the problem with text appearing on the bar. Yay.

I'll upload the new version shortly.