Show Posts
This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.
You could add all of them (NES, 16-bit, Minimalist) and allow the player to choose, defaulting to the one newer players are more likely to prefer (when they install MM8BDM)All of us on the development team generally agree that introducing these as options is not a viable route to take. Modders already struggle to support both horizontal and vertical modes properly, given the amount of graphics and offsetting work it requires. It's definitely not gonna become any easier when that work becomes quadruple what it is now. The more difficult it becomes for modders, the more likely modders just won't support the other options or will remove the options, nullifying the entire point of them being options to begin with.
Though subjective, I greatly prefer NES style bars to the alternatives shown. I have in the past (circa-v8b classes) used HUDShot, but since we adopted health numbers officially I haven't returned and prefer the simplicity and versatility of the current bars' looks. I'm willing to (reluctantly) play softball with the Genesis Flavor bars, but would still greatly prefer not to use them.This seems to be the general reception on Genesis bars, people like the idea behind it but not so much the execution. After seeing some weapon color combinations, I can agree with that. I'd be interested in trying some different styles such as the following, (far left is Genesis Flavor bar for comparison)
- Who is this bar change for anyways? The NES bars hit the nostalgia and coolness factor of "oh man that's cool, they got the health bars straight from the games in here?" and health/ammo numbers already fix the problems that the other bars will fix as well. You could argue that the health and ammo numbers are kinda tacked on, and yeah they are. I'm not gonna deny that at all. But it's not like the other bars fix that either - there will always be more precision in the numbers, and more novelty from the NES bars. Will the casual player (numbers don't matter so much) get that much more value from the other bars? And will the seasoned player (numbers matter more) ever want to turn numbers off?The major thing that Compromise and Anarchy try to resolve is standardization with other shooters. Newcomers can come into this game without much Mega Man experience and feel like the UI is backwards because we keep our ammo on the left while the HP is on the right. Compared to Apex, Valorant, Overwatch, and TF2, which all opt to have HP on the left of the crosshair and ammo on the right.
- I use Vertical, and have always found discomfort with Horizontal bars. No matter which direction they deplete, it doesn't quite feel right. I respect people who do use them, and have never advocated for things to change to fit my standards (which I wouldn't have really), but they've never sat right. As a result, I really do just sorta need an option to have my bars to deplete from the top and end at the bottom.This is a valid take and this is essentially the response I've gotten from other people in regards to Anarchy's vertical mode. Creating the vertical but not mode was an attempt to see if people were alright with it to potentially save extra work for modders, as currently, modders need to create bars for both horizontal and vertical. Experimental change that people didn't vibe with, all good.
- I need some selling on the gap between bars present in compromise. I don't understand what use it serves, and it just clutters more of the screen.The goal here is to prevent the current cramped design that the Vanilla hud has in my opinion. When all UI elements are in place, it leads to a lot of numbers and icons right next to each other with not much separation, so Compromise has that separation between bars as an attempt to make it a bit easier for new folks to parse with a distinct separation between areas of the UI.
- How much is the 8bdm dev team familiar with Zandronum's Alternative HUD? You can enable it in Options -> Advanced Options -> HUD Options -> Alternative HUD. While definitely not made for MM8BDM, there are some extremely cool parts of this HUD that it seems are 1) important to newcomers 2) useful even to seasoned players 3) relatively nonintrusive and able to be built around the current HUD.A weapon bar is definitely an idea we've had in the dev team with some graphic mockups being made (thanks Russel!), but we're not entirely sure of its feasibility yet. There's some specific stuff on the backend that needs to line up for it to work and we just haven't had an opportunity to test it yet. Assuming that it is possible in the stuff we're implementing, I think I would personally prefer it far more than a weapon slot display.
Go into map in Deathmatch mode, set screenblocks 12, set crosshair 0, set r_drawspectatingstring false, and spectate.
Here's an alias for convenience
'alias screenie "spectate; crosshair 0; screenblocks 12; r_drawspectatingstring false"'
Screenshot map in 1024x768 resolution.
Downsize screenshot to 512x384 (50% of original size) with Nearest Neighbor filtering
Rename screenshot to be the same as your maps lumpname, in other words, MM2AIR's map preview is named MM2AIR.png
Toss screenshot into a graphics folder in your map pack / addon
This mod will recognize that graphic and implement it as a map preview
