hud help

[Naiss 28]

how can i make a hud? like i but a text on the screen and all that

[fight9 14]

Start here:

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?144954-Dialog-Tutorial-For-Noobs-By-A-Noob

(Use the GUI editor to output your basic defines instead of taking them from the post. They'll be more complete.)

Then here afterwards:

http://killzonekid.com/tag/gui/

Wiki resources:

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Dialog_Control

You can always ask questions here on the forums, just try to make it about a specific problem and not a whole process of learning and creating.

Edited March 14, 2014 by Fight9

[fusion13 11]

What about those who know all of this?

[dwringer 45]

What about those who know all of this?

Then instead of defining the stuff as a dialog, it needs to be defined as a display under the RscTitles class. I have only played around a little bit with it, but I'll paste the relevant sections of my definitions below that hopefully illustrate the differences.

class RscTitles {	

class Default 
{
	idd = -1;
	fadein = 0;
	fadeout = 0;
	duration = 0;
};

class TalkDisplay {
 idd = 1988;
 onLoad = "uiNamespace setVariable ['TalkDisplay', _this select 0]";
 fadein = 0;
 fadeout = 0;
 duration = 10e10;
 controlsBackground[] = {};
 objects[] = {};
 controls[] = { RscPicture_1200,
	 RscFrame_1800,
	 RscText_1000,
	 RscFrame_1801,
	 RscText_1001 };	
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// GUI EDITOR OUTPUT START (by dwringer, v1.063, #Zonyjo)
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

class RscPicture_1200: RscPicture
{
	idc = 1200;
	text = "#(argb,256,256,1)r2t(camrender0,1.0)";
	x = 0.005;
	y = 0.745;
	w = 0.25;
	h = 0.25;
};
class RscFrame_1800: RscFrame
{
	idc = 1800;
	x = 0;
	y = 0.74;
	w = 0.2625;
	h = 0.26;
};
class RscText_1000: RscText
{
	idc = 1000;
	text = ""; //--- ToDo: Localize;
	x = 0.2625;
	y = 0.74;
	w = 0.7375;
	h = 0.04;
	colorBackground[] = { 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.8 }; 
        colorText[] = { 1, 1, 1, 1 }; 
};
class RscFrame_1801: RscFrame
{
	idc = 1801;
	x = 0.2625;
	y = 0.78;
	w = 0.7375;
	h = 0.22;
};
class RscText_1001: RscText
{
	idc = 1001;
	text = ""; //--- ToDo: Localize;
	x = 0.2625;
	y = 0.78;
	w = 0.7375;
	h = 0.22;
	colorBackground[] = { 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.6 }; 
        colorText[] = { 1, 1, 1, 1 }; 
	style = ST_MULTI;
	lineSpacing = 1;

};
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// GUI EDITOR OUTPUT END
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

};
};

That was how to define a display resource, such as a HUD. Below is a dialog with essentially the same elements in it:

class TalkDialog { 
 idd = 1987; 
 movingEnable = false;  // the dialog can be moved with the mouse (see "moving" below) 
 //enableSimulation = false;  // freeze the game 
 controlsBackground[] = { };  // no background controls needed 
 objects[] = { };  // no objects needed 
 controls[] = { RscPicture_1200, 
	 RscText_1000,
	 RscText_1001,
	 RscFrame_1800, 
	 RscFrame_1801,
	 RscButton_1600,
	 RscButton_1601,
	 RscButton_1602,
	 RscButton_1603 }; 


////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// GUI EDITOR OUTPUT START (by dwringer, v1.063, #Rygyke)
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

class RscFrame_1800: RscFrame
{
	idc = 1800;
	x = 0;
	y = 0;
	w = 0.25;
	h = 0.25;
};
class RscPicture_1200: RscPicture
{
	idc = 1200;
	text = "#(argb,256,256,1)r2t(camrender0,1.0)";
	x = 0.005;
	y = 0.005;
	w = 0.24;
	h = 0.24;
};
class RscText_1000: RscText
{
	idc = 1000;
	text = ""; //--- ToDo: Localize;
	x = 0.25;
	y = 0;
	w = 0.75;
	h = 0.04;
	colorBackground[] = { 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.8 }; 
        colorText[] = { 1, 1, 1, 1 }; 
};
class RscFrame_1801: RscFrame
{
	idc = 1801;
	x = 0.25;
	y = 0.04;
	w = 0.75;
	h = 0.26;
};
class RscText_1001: RscText
{
	idc = 1001;
	text = ""; //--- ToDo: Localize;
	x = 0.25;
	y = 0.04;
	w = 0.75;
	h = 0.26;
	colorBackground[] = { 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.6 }; 
        colorText[] = { 1, 1, 1, 1 }; 
	style = ST_MULTI;
	lineSpacing = 1;

};
class RscButton_1600: RscButton
{
	idc = 1600;
	text = "1"; //--- ToDo: Localize;
	x = 0.0125;
	y = 0.26;
	w = 0.05;
	h = 0.04;
	action = "[DialogTarget, 1] call fnc_diagAct";
};
class RscButton_1601: RscButton
{
	idc = 1601;
	text = "2"; //--- ToDo: Localize;
	x = 0.075;
	y = 0.26;
	w = 0.05;
	h = 0.04;
	action = "[DialogTarget, 2] call fnc_diagAct";
};
class RscButton_1602: RscButton
{
	idc = 1602;
	text = "3"; //--- ToDo: Localize;
	x = 0.1375;
	y = 0.26;
	w = 0.05;
	h = 0.04;
	action = "[DialogTarget, 3] call fnc_diagAct";
};
class RscButton_1603: RscButton
{
	idc = 1603;
	text = "X"; //--- ToDo: Localize;
	x = 0.2125;
	y = 0.26;
	w = 0.025;
	h = 0.04;
	action = closeDialog 0;
};
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// GUI EDITOR OUTPUT END
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////


};

There's actually a much more detailed post on these forums about how to use #ifdef and some other things to use the same source files to define something as both a dialog and a display, but it's beyond the scope of this thread and I don't remember where it is. :)

Anyway, where you pull up a dialog with:

_handle = createDialog "dialogName";

and end it with closeDialog 0;

you would pull up the display resource with:

_handle = 0 cutRsc ["dialogName","PLAIN"];

and end it with 0 cutRsc ["Default","PLAIN"];

(assuming you created a default display as seen above)