KingArthurs DASH/HUD's

KingArthur · Post by **KingArthur** » Sat Apr 28, 2012 3:43 am

My Silver/Grey BRUSHED METAL DASH, CHROME Accents with a Nice Shade of Blue Lettering/Images on the affchage and the Compas Bar. I Just Wish I Could Have the In-Game DASH have the Detail the File Does.

[Edited on 4-28-2012 by KingArthur]

KingArthur · Post by **KingArthur** » Mon May 07, 2012 3:39 am

New DASH. Anodized Metal (Darker looking when ot In-Game....Again), Beveled and Filled BLACK with the ccpitblue 1,2, and 3 Added as Well as a Little CHROME Touch.

Increased the Size of My Target Recticle with a Box Centre for Strafing Recticle.

This Will Be My NEW Standard Combat DASH/HUD

* Removed the YELLOW BOXES From the Readout Metal Ones.

[Edited on 5-7-2012 by KingArthur]

KingArthur · Post by **KingArthur** » Wed May 09, 2012 4:31 am

I Created a NEW DASH/HUD. I Used MAX's "Left View" Console as the COMPASS HOUSING, with a Few Tweaks. I Elongated and Narrowed It and Added some Chrome Touches. The DASH Is Anodized Metal I added some Noise and Color to to Give it a More "Baked" Appearance. I Stripped the HUD down to the Most Spartan I Could, Including Removing the Boxes around the Readouts for Weaps, Hull, etc.

I'll be Flying This Config for a While. Great Visability in PvP.

Should Anyone Want "Blank" b2compass/shadow Files for the Elongated as well as the Orinonal Sized "Left Veiw" Console, with Compass, just Let Me Know and I'll post Them Here at 1024 x 1024 pix for a Quick Click and Save.

[Edited on 5-21-2012 by KingArthur]

KingArthur · Post by **KingArthur** » Fri May 11, 2012 4:11 am

My "Blue Steel" DASH with Standard Combat HUD. Used "Rounded Rectangles" to Create Multiple Screens. Elongated MAX's "Left Veiw" Console I Had made into a Compass Housing to 1024 x 125 pix. and Gave it a Blue Metal Appearance. Nice to Fly With.

KingArthur · Post by **KingArthur** » Fri May 18, 2012 12:23 pm

My "INDUSTRIAL" DASH with Minimal GunSight. Pic is From My New 24" Monitor so Now, at 1620 x 1025 Res, I'm able to See Out the Side Windows, if only a Little.

KingArthur · Post by **KingArthur** » Thu May 24, 2012 1:42 pm

This will Now be My "DEFAULT" DASH/HUD. The BLUE is Relaxing when Contracting or During PvP and The HUD has been STRIPPED To the Minimum Nessesary with the PITCH TAPE Spread OUTSIDE the MDTS Circle and ALL HUD Readouts

SeeJay · Post by **SeeJay** » Thu May 24, 2012 1:51 pm

Nice work mate!

Are we having fun with Photoshop or what? LOL!:P

KingArthur · Post by **KingArthur** » Thu May 24, 2012 2:11 pm

LMAO. We ARE, My Friend. You have My THANKS.

Star King · Post by **Star King** » Thu May 24, 2012 2:43 pm

What does this beautiful look like without the struts?
Is this really your HUD? Incredible and clean.

sundalo · Post by **sundalo** » Thu May 24, 2012 3:25 pm

I know why you called the radar "Lidar". Reference from the classic space show called space above and beyond right? Good show btw.

Viper · Post by **Viper** » Thu May 24, 2012 5:27 pm

Your Photoshop skills are obviously increasing Kingarthur, really nice progress there!

I noticed you lean towards metal/chrome look designs a lot. If it helps, I'd like to give you two very simple ways to create a very realistic metal/chrome effect. I made a quick example for you to see what kind of result you can get in under a minute of work.

1) Right click on your layer and go to Blending Options. Click on Gradient Overlay and create a custom repeating gradient that runs from close to white to close to black. Add several color changes (as in black-white-black-white-black-white) and play with the gradient sliders until you have a glossy metal effect like you see in the images below.
(In the examples I added a slight blue to make the colors resemble the color of metal better. I personally find that plain gray leans towards brown too much.)
Optionally, you could add a slight Bevel & Emboss to it like I did as well.

2) What really makes it look great is adding a grungy look to it by adding a pattern overlay in your blending options or simply painting over the window frame with your brush tool. You can get tons of really great grunge brushes on Deviantart.com (also 'rust' ones, which give it a really nice 'worn' look as well!).

Again optionally, you could also add a glass glare on top of the center part of the window by creating a selection in the upper half of it and drawing a white-to-transparent gradient from top to bottom, starting and ending outside the selected area. Set the opacity of the glare layer to like 15-25%.

Here are two examples, the first having a rounded glare, the second a rectangle one (and the rest of the techniques applied as described above):

Hopes this helps with your metal cockpit designs. Keep up the good work!

Edit:
The examples are only 72ppi I think, for the game you should use 150ppi.

[Edited on 5-24-2012 by Viper]

KingArthur · Post by **KingArthur** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 5:49 am

My Brushed Stainless with Rivets and Chrome.Also Addedd Color to It. Standard DASH Now.

[Edited on 6-5-2012 by KingArthur]

KingArthur · Post by **KingArthur** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 5:53 am

VIPER. Thanks My Friend. I Will DEFINETLY Use These Techniques in My Next DASH.

I Have ALOT OF STYLES So I Tend to Stick With Those. I'm not So Good with "Layers" or "Blending". Actually, ALL ATTEMPTS to Customize a GRADIENT Ends in DISASTER! lmao. But I'll Keep On Plugging.

Appriciate the Encouragement My Friend.

[Edited on 6-5-2012 by KingArthur]

[Edited on 6-5-2012 by KingArthur]

KingArthur · Post by **KingArthur** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 1:14 pm

@sundalo. Actually it is a Reference from BABYLON 5.

KingArthur · Post by **KingArthur** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 7:34 am

My GRUNGE BURNT METAL DASH.

KingArthur · Post by **KingArthur** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 1:37 pm

Revenile · Post by **Revenile** » Sat Jul 21, 2012 2:07 pm

Impressive, I love your latest brushed steel one that you claim is the "new default" I'd love to see it on my own screen someday.

KingArthur · Post by **KingArthur** » Sat Jul 21, 2012 7:02 pm

If You'd like the Files Simply Email Me and I'll send them to You.

KingArthur · Post by **KingArthur** » Mon Jul 30, 2012 11:49 pm

Should ANYONE Wish to USE one of My MODS Simply Email me (Address visible on the Forum) and I'll Send You the Files. I DON'T Use a FILE SHARING WEB SITE. Email is Person to Person.