Weapons of Saturn v1.9

[Hexereticdoom]

Hi there!

Just take a peek for the forthcoming version of HXRTC HUD, made specially for Weapons of Saturn:

[-Ghost-]

I like the layout, but the colors seem kind of jarring to look at, with bright greens up against black and blue.

[Captain J]

starcraft style to me.

[Ferguson]

I hope this goes to release, personally I like the different look it has. Also, Weapons of Saturn is one of my favorite mods, I use it with any mod that uses stock weapons. Would be great to have a custom HUD for it.

[Hexereticdoom]

I like the layout, but the colors seem kind of jarring to look at, with bright greens up against black and blue.

Well, the green numbers are subject to dynamic changes, concretely when you are running out of health, armor or an ammo type; when in 'warning' state the color changes to yellow, and in 'critical' state changes to red, in a similar (but not exact) way like the ZDoom's Alternate HUD. Also, the Stimpack panel will change its color when you pick up a Berserk pack.

I hope this goes to release, personally I like the different look it has. Also, Weapons of Saturn is one of my favorite mods, I use it with any mod that uses stock weapons. Would be great to have a custom HUD for it.

I also hope I can release it... But first I'll have to wait to Esselfortium's answer in the BTSX HUD 2.x thread.

[JimmyJ]

I like the colors, looks rad.

[Lippeth]

I've fixed and changed a few sprites in the original mod. The actual list of everything that has changed is on the front page, but the main focus is that I removed the caution tape from the pulse rifle. I had planned to completely replace it with something entirely different, but figured 'Why make such a drastic change so late in development?'. Plus I really like everything else about it.

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I've noticed something odd about the minigun. It plays the firing sound three times, takes four out of the ammo, and fires five projectiles. Odd, am I right?

I think I did that for balancing reasons. I remember trying to time it all out so it could mimic the vanilla chaingun's dps and ammo counter somewhat accurately, while adding a little more stopping power. Nice observation, it is a bit odd that it ended up like that!

[T1 Heavy Tank]

Very impressive ill get cool style in Christmas weapons

[Lippeth]

I know I just did an update, but fixing the pulse rife got me thinking about the minigun.

[lizardcommando]

I don't know if you have addressed this or not but will you add an option to either reduce or turn off the smoke effects from the weapons? Sometimes it can cause some slight lag, especially with the combat shotgun when you aim down the sights and shoot.

[Lippeth]

A quick solution while I work on a toggle option is to put a double forward slash in front of #include ACTORS/SMOKE.txt in the decorate file in Slade. You get a couple script warnings but it runs just fine.

[Devianteist]

I asked this previously and seemed to have been missed; Would it be possible to have a version of your (Lippeth) WOS HUD that works in Vanilla DOOM? Most of it does work already, except for the keycards.

[Lippeth]

If by vanilla you mean the original doom.exe, then I'm not sure. I made the whole thing specifically for ZDoom in 16:9 so I wouldn't know how much could be accurately translated, if at all. I would need a lot of help on this, or someone else might have to do it.

[Devianteist]

Allow me to correct myself; What I mean by "Vanilla" is without Weapons of Saturn. I run through DOOM without any mods quite often, but I've never liked the default HUD.

During my attempts to use your HUD without WOS, the keycard lights do not light up when I acquire a new card. That is literally the only issue I've had, and I would fix it myself, had I the knowledge.

[Lippeth]

That is pretty strange then, even stand alone it has always worked for me without an issue. Does it work when you run it with WOS? I can't imagine that being a factor because no resource from one would be in the other. Still that's an odd bug that I can't recreate. When the keycards do light up it has never been insanely bright, but I've never had an issue with them not showing up at all. Strange indeed, and I'm sorry that I can't fix it because I can't recreate it.