Fullscreen Statusbar Mod [ON HOLD]

[m8f]

Okay, I understand.
Thanks again for this addon.

[NightFright]

I had forgotten to take bottom right level stats positions into account with the new split arms mode for Heretic. Gratefully 3saster took care of it quickly. I took the opportunity to add the same feature to Hexen, this time aligning the numbers to the side of the status bar (looks more balanced with active inventory item on the other side plus it's just four numbers which would look bad if top-aligned). I finally also realized that the way the Hexen automap had been looking so far was wrong - the two images for the keys/armor items panels from 4.x had not been added for some reason, resulting in only the icons being shown. It's fixed now.

Changelog v5.1.2:
[ALL] MENUDEF: Code optimization (now only HacX needs two files, all other games just one)
[DOOM] Automatic compatibility added for Sunlust
[HERETIC] Split mode: Arms numbers are no longer blocked by level stats
[HEXEN] Split mode: Added support for arms numbers (default: off)
[HEXEN] Automap: Re-added key/armor panels in minimized mode (graphics were missing)

Preview of activated "Split Arms" mode in Hexen:


Comparison old (bugged) minimized Hexen automap [with items since otherwise you wouldn't see any icons at all] and fixed one [no items]:

[site]

thank you for continuing maintenance releases on this, but im gonna poke 3saster because at the same time i want this one mod to rule them all and after this it will be done because there is literally nothing else i can think of that would make this any better...

"Note that if you prefer Tekish's stats, you can disable the stats from this mod in the options menu, and use Tekish's instead. It's also given me an idea to consider power-up timers..."

*cough*

[NightFright]

It's true, we are slowly approaching "feature complete" status.
The big thing still missing on my agenda is Strife support, even though it's not gonna be relevant for 99.9% of you guys out there since hardly anybody is playing it. That system timer for level stats would also be nice, but we need to wait until ZScript allows it.

Other than that, once everybody is also happy with stats, it's probably just about adding more compatibility support for all kinds of Doom PWADs.

[jfxsan]

Thanks for this great hud.

Just a question, was Ammo2 support implemented? I didn't see it, but apparently an older version had it. It'd be sweet.

[3saster]

Thanks for this great hud.

Just a question, was Ammo2 support implemented? I didn't see it, but apparently an older version had it. It'd be sweet.

I don't think I did, and part of that was I never considered it, since any mods that use multiple ammo sources tend to have their own HUD. I do recall it in the original version though, so when I get the chance, I'll see if I can implement it back (what mods would this be good for, out of curiosity?). I did do testing for this in Hexen, because Hexen does have weapons that use Ammo2 normally, so it would probably just be a manner of backporting it to Heretic and Doom.

BTW, sorry if development is a little slow! Things have been a little busy the last couple weeks, but hopefully I can get back to work and finally look into adding Strife support next week, and the other requested features.

[Barry Burton]

Hey NightFright, firstly thanks for making such a slick little mod. It's got a permanent home in my autoload INI.

I was wondering if it would be possible to make it compatible with D4V? Is this something you can/would want to do? Regardless, thanks anyway.

[Jarewill]

After playing Final Doomer, I remember trying to get a similar fullscreen hud for general play.
I've been trying to make one too, but that didn't go as planned.
Then I saw this mod and oh man, I started using it a lot.
Very great and customizable status bar, thank you for it.

[3saster]

Hey NightFright, firstly thanks for making such a slick little mod. It's got a permanent home in my autoload INI.

I was wondering if it would be possible to make it compatible with D4V? Is this something you can/would want to do? Regardless, thanks anyway.

It already is compatible with D4V! The only catch iirc is that this mod must be loaded AFTER D4V (this applies to stuff like Pirate Doom too btw). This is unfortunately a limitation of how statusbars work in GZDoom. Alternatively, leave the mod in your autoload, and simply load this MAPINFO lump after D4V:

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GameInfo
{ 
	StatusBarClass = "SpecialDoomStatusBar"
}

That will force this statusbar to be used.

[NightFright]

@ Barry Burton:
In the readme it's also mentioned we support D4V fully since v5.1.0 via the new compatibility system.

[jfxsan]

Hi 3saster, that would be good for standard weapon mods with reloads. I love Weapons of Saturn for example, and it pretty much just requires an additional Ammo2 display and nothing else. As long as I could see the number somewhere it'd be fine!

[Barry Burton]

3saster, Thanks for the advice.

@ Barry Burton:
In the readme it's also mentioned we support D4V fully since v5.1.0 via the new compatibility system.

NightFright, I'm using 5.1.2 and I've been using your mod pretty much since it came out upgrading with every new release. It's never worked for me with D4V (also up to date) though it works fine (as far as I'm aware!) with most other things I've played. I also always use the latest GZDoom release, too.

Should I remove your HUD mod from my autoload list in my INI file and always load it after other mods to make it more compatible? I looked through the in-game menu and in my INI file to see if there were any compatibility options that I'd overlooked but didn't find any.

[NightFright]

You seem to misunderstand. Compatibility isn't an option in the menu, it just means some pwads need additional tweaks which are automatically applied when loading the mod with specific pwads. As 3saster pointed out there may be some mods that require you to load the mod after them.

D4V would work with the mod anyway, just without some more or less visual improvements (properly cut split panels, better looking ammo overview numbers when using transparency, color fix for Boom colors etc.). I wouldn't call that "not working" unless it doesn't work at all.

It's not always a good idea to have it in autoload since any pwad you run will always be loaded last. In fact, I would advise against that in general. There are many excellent launchers out there such as Doom Runner. With those you can make sure loading order is correct.

[3saster]

It's not always a good idea to have it in autoload since any pwad you run will always be loaded last. In fact, I would advise against that in general. There are many excellent launchers out there such as Doom Runner. With those you can make sure loading order is correct.

I'll disagree with you on that front. I too, use this mod in my own autoload (do keep in mind that I largely play without mods). In fact, this is intentional, as with some mods that provide a custom HUD, this will allow the custom HUD to override this one, which can be important with mods that have new information on the HUD. That being said, I do also use a launcher (DoomLauncher) to ensure I know exactly what the load order is, though you could also use .bat files.

Never-the-less, as Nightfright said, this has to be loaded after some mods to correctly work (any mod with its own custom hud). There is unfortunately no way around this. However, for the sake of convenience and to avoid removing it from your autoload, I have included the MAPINFO lump from above in a little .pk3. Load this file at the very end of your load order (if fullscreen_huds is in your autoload), and it will force it to be used.

[3saster]

Good news @ Barry Burton (and anyone else interested)! Your situation inspired me to find a way to use this HUD with mods that have custom statusbars without loading additional files or changing load order. To my surprise, I actually found a way! The next version will include a ""Force HUD Override" option, which will force this HUD to be used regardless of your load order! The cost of this feature is that now the mod will now require GZDoom 4.2.4+. This particular feature is also prone to causing crashes on exiting on LZDoom, so I would recommend LZDoom users to not use this feature. It will likely be a little bit before the next version comes out (I still have a few things I wanna do first), but if you want this feature now, you can download the latest build version here.