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Questions in regards to making a custom HUD?

Discussion in 'Texture Packs' started by Skyglass, Jan 27, 2012.

  1. Skyglass

    Skyglass Shipwright

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    I'm currently working on a high contrast, minimalistic HUD.

    Firstly, I was wondering however, how would I go about making the chat area transparent? From what I can understand it's currently hard coded into the game engine (as I tried changing paper_tiles.png to a transparent png, which resulted in the chat area being a plain beige colored rectangle, which was slightly more minimalistic, but didn't have the black, 75% transparent background I would like. I'm not sure if this is changeable in the .cfg files, which is what i'm wondering) I would also like to make the minimap icon transparent as well.

    Secondly, Is it possible to reposition & even remove HUD elements? I would like to center the hearts shown in the screenshot below over top of the resources icons. I would also like to remove the "controls" text, but creating a transparent font file for it removes other in-game elements as well. (the text for precaching images etc). There's a lot of things I would like to re-position to be honest, but in the mean time i'd be happy just to get the hearts centered without having the image get cut off.


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    Skyglass, Jan 27, 2012
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  2. BlueLuigi

    BlueLuigi :^) Forum Moderator Donator Tester

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    1)Some elements yes, some no, look around in all of the files, mostly the xml files I guess and the ones in /Scripts, a few of them look promising for this sort of thing
    2)Moving stuff around is a yes, definitely possible
    3)There are supposed to be stuff for changing the chat's color/background but they are not implemented although they are shown in some versions, it's very strange, not sure what's up with that.
    4)No idea how to move the hearts or if it's possible but maybe messing around in the files (backup everything first!) should probably get you what you want, or at least familiar with the limitations.
     
    BlueLuigi, Jan 29, 2012
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  3. acridstone

    acridstone Horde Gibber

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    If you know your basic html you probably will have very little problems figuring it out :)
     
    acridstone, Apr 8, 2012
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