Percentages in the HUD

[badpazzword]

Example

To achieve this:

1) go to your dialog.mdl
2) find the following:

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fuelString = 
    BlendImage(
        StringImage(
                JustifyLeft,
                100,
                smVerdana,
                hudColor,
                ConcatinatedString("F: ", ConcatinatedString(NumberString(Multiply(GetFuel(Me, OnEveryFrame),100)), "%"))
        ),
        hudBlendMode
    );

3) Replace with

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fuelString = 
    BlendImage(
        StringImage(
                JustifyLeft,
                100,
                lgBoldVerdana,
                hudColor,
                ConcatinatedString("F: ", ConcatinatedString(NumberString(Multiply(GetFuel(Me, OnEveryFrame),100)), "%"))
        ),
        hudBlendMode
    );

4) Repeat as needed:

CODEammoString =
BlendImage(
StringImage(
JustifyRight,
100,
lgBoldVerdana,
hudColor,
ConcatinatedString("A: ", ConcatinatedString(NumberString(Multiply(GetAmmo(Me, OnEveryFrame),100)), "%"))
),
hudBlendMode
);

energyString =
BlendImage(
StringImage(
JustifyLeft,
100,
lgBoldVerdana,
hudColor,
ConcatinatedString("E: ", ConcatinatedString(NumberString(Multiply(GetPercentEnergy(Me, OnEveryFrame),100)), "%"))
),
hudBlendMode
);

armorString =
BlendImage(
StringImage(
JustifyLeft,
100,
lgBoldVerdana,
hudColor,
ConcatinatedString("H: ", ConcatinatedString(NumberString(Multiply(GetPercentHitPoints(Me, OnEveryFrame),100)), "%"))
),
hudBlendMode
);


shieldString =
BlendImage(
StringImage(
JustifyRight,
100,
lgBoldVerdana,
hudColor,
ConcatinatedString("S: ", ConcatinatedString(NumberString(Multiply(GetPercentShields(Me, OnEveryFrame),100)), "%"))
),
hudBlendMode
);

thrustString =
BlendImage(
StringImage(
JustifyRight,
100,
lgBoldVerdana,
hudColor,
ConcatinatedString("T: ", ConcatinatedString(NumberString(Multiply(playerThrottle,100)), "%"))
),
hudBlendMode
);


I also tried with thrust values, but using ConcatinatedString("A: ", ConcatinatedString(NumberString(Multiply(playerThrottle), "%")) crashes Alleg rather badly.

EDIT: The ammo bar in the screenie is wrong as of a Slipshod UI bug. The percentage values are accurate.

EDIT2: Corrected. Thanks, scorpion!

[scorpion69]

Awesome!

Thanks badp! /wub.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":iluv:" border="0" alt="wub.gif" />


QUOTE I also tried with thrust values, but using ConcatinatedString("A: ", ConcatinatedString(NumberString(Multiply(playerThrottle), "%")) crashes Alleg rather badly.[/quote]
This works fine for me:
ConcatinatedString("T: ", ConcatinatedString(NumberString(Multiply(playerThrottle,100)), "%"))

[badpazzword]

Whoops.

[mesial]

After posting a picture of that HUD, you do realise that it's my duty to hound you for it so I can add it to my site, right?

[badpazzword]

Yep. But there are a few glitches.

Sometimes the counters read "-2147483647" (for example, in a fig, you read "E: -2147483647"; in a pod it's "A: -2147483647" and "E: -2147483647"; etc.) That's because the Get functions were never meant for this use.

I've also been trying to show the ACTUAL numbers and not useless percentages but found no way around it. Any idea?

[madpeople]

QUOTE (Mesial @ May 24 2007, 02:40 PM) After posting a picture of that HUD, you do realise that it's my duty to hound you for it so I can add it to my site, right?

if you are talking about the gauges they are my slipstream gauges (v1.0 i think those are)

http://www.allegacademy.org/dnld/dnld.shtml
http://www.freeallegiance.org/forums/index...amp;#entry41671

the reason i don't have a blog entry on them is because i made a nice post on the old forums about them and i want it back instead of re-writing it again.

p.s. you don't have my normal thingauge on your site, only psychosis's coloured version

[badpazzword]

You made them? Good. Check the image again. Ammo gauge. The percentage is accurate, your bar isn't... (also the fuel isn't correctly shown, but not as much).

[madpeople]

QUOTE (badpazzword @ May 24 2007, 03:42 PM) You made them? Good. Check the image again. Ammo gauge. The percentage is accurate, your bar isn't... (also the fuel isn't correctly shown, but not as much).

yeah... i was looking at that and wondering about that :/

it seemed right when i tested it... well, i don't have time to fix it right now

yeah, i think i did have trouble fitting them into the same boxes as the originals because i was using 45degree diagonals and the originals were in rectangles and a 45 degree diagonal line doesn't cross both corners in a rectangle... i guess i could have added some vertical bits...

[Bacon_00]

Wow, I really like both that HUD and the idea of giving %'s next to the graphics.

If you get this working well, lemme know, Bacon like =D