I've been itching again to do at least some modding work for some time now, just never had the time for it. There are a couple of awesome HUD mods out there, but I have always wanted to combine some of their content into one HUD. So I had a go.
Maximillien's HUD has served as a basis and worked from there. The changes are but small; the main thing that has changed is the pitch ladder area in the head up display.
I did not design this HUD from scratch. Most of the elements have been designed by Maximillien, who did an astonishing job on it. Dagonet first came up with the idea of a colored center part of the pitch ladder, which inspired me to design something similar.
Without their awesome work I wouldn't have been able to design this HUD. Thanks to Maximillien and Dagonet!
My additions to their work:
- Dagonet's HUD:
- Complete redesign of Dagonet's colored center section of the pitch ladder, corrected the spacing in between the lines, applied a different color scheme (green-orange-red from the inside outwards) and increased the pixel quality.
The center has been faded out for better visibility on targets.
- Complete redesign of Dagonet's colored center section of the pitch ladder, corrected the spacing in between the lines, applied a different color scheme (green-orange-red from the inside outwards) and increased the pixel quality.
- Maximillien's HUD:
- Edited numeric section of the pitch ladder to make the center '0' area brighter, fading to the outside.
- Added center lines to make alligning the ship easier.
- General:
- Created a new shadow map.
My HUD might not be everyone's taste, but everyone who likes it is welcome to download it. I'm uploading right now, but somehow it's taking forever. I'll update this post when the download is ready.
For now, here are a couple of screenshots of my HUD:
If someone wants to use it with a few changes, let me know and I'll see what I can do.
[Edited on 2-5-2012 by Viper]