hud modding?

[CS-ACI-]

Hello,

Now I have access to software I understand and makes me look good, I was taking a look at modding the hud.

I have tried out a couple of blank ladders with just a horizon line too see the differences. I have only changed hudtape.png and not altered hudtape-shadow.png. I also have only added the \\hud directory and only put hudtape.png in it. I am playing at 1920x1080.

Too keep the maths simple I have used two image sizes, both 360 friendly, 720x360 and 2160x1080. These numbers were not chosen to match my screen resolution.

Each time I drew a single pixel line for the horizon but got different results.

720x360 gave me in game on the screen a quite thick line much more than one pixel, 2160x1080 gave me a razor thin line.

Need a little guidance on how the game is interpreting the files, does it scale up/down or some other method?

If someone using a lower resolution than me tries the file will they lose the line?

Steve

[Marvin]

Default size for the pitch ladder (hudtape) PNG is, I think, 2048x1024 ... if you use a smaller size then the image will be expanded, increasing each pixel by a corresponding amount. If you create a larger image, the image will be reduced ... ergo, a single-pixel image might not be drawn.

So ... I'd stick with the default size for the PNG. I'd also create a shadow image to match. Else you will end up with shadows in the wrong places (easier to see against a white background).

[CS-ACI-]

Hello,

So I am playing around building a hud ladder to start with, and with a basic setup I noticed something odd.

If you look closely at the attached file, you will see that the vertical lines are not straight. DaveK has told me this is "pin cushion" distortion. Is this meant to happen?

Steve


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[DaveK]

When I was checking this out for Steve his vertical lines were pretty obviously curved. When I check my own pitch ladder, lo and behold, the verticals were curved too - but since mine are a series of pitch 'ticks' it isn't particularly obvious and I hadn't spotted it!

The horizontals aren't affected though