Custom HUD not showing correctly

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Custom HUD not showing correctly

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I have a custom HUD I use on Zandronum and for the most part it works just fine on GZDoom, except that the custom rocket sprite is missing.
I can't for the life of me figure why it's happening.

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PS: Why doesn't IMG work anymore? Seems kind of redundant to replace it with the same command only longer.
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Re: Custom HUD not showing correctly

Post by wildweasel »

Can you post a link to this HUD for somebody to look at?
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Re: Custom HUD not showing correctly

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You mean the file itself? Sure, I'll just dump the code here.
It's just modified ZDoom default hud code.
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Re: Custom HUD not showing correctly

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That rocket graphic isn't an IWAD graphic, so it must've come from a PWAD you're (auto)loading with Zandronum, which you neglected to (auto)load with GZDoom.
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Re: Custom HUD not showing correctly

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Blue Shadow wrote:That rocket graphic isn't an IWAD graphic, so it must've come from a PWAD you're (auto)loading with Zandronum, which you neglected to (auto)load with GZDoom.
It's packed with the code.
As shown above, it loads properly on Zandronum.
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Re: Custom HUD not showing correctly

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Then it is something internal to Zandronum which is not present in GZDoom.
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Re: Custom HUD not showing correctly

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Graf Zahl wrote:Then it is something internal to Zandronum which is not present in GZDoom.
I don't follow.
I'm pretty sure GZDoom is more than capable of displaying custom HUD graphics.
Something this simple shouldn't be outside it's capabilities.
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Re: Custom HUD not showing correctly

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Not an expert but... isn't your rocket a custom image or something like that? Rocket ammo icon in (G)ZDoom is "ROCKA0", not whatever "STRAMO" is. Check how the other icons are four letters followed by A and 0 (zero).
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HellBlade64 wrote:PS: Why doesn't IMG work anymore? Seems kind of redundant to replace it with the same command only longer.
It's not the same. The imgur tag gives you a clickable thumbnail which means the forum doesn't get messed up by people posting huge images. img can still be used for small images (no more than 800 pixels wide). If you try to use the img tag on big images, it should tell you this.
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Re: Custom HUD not showing correctly

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HellBlade64 wrote:I don't follow.
I'm pretty sure GZDoom is more than capable of displaying custom HUD graphics.
Something this simple shouldn't be outside it's capabilities.
I'd say at this point, the best thing to do is to post the HUD mod so we can take a look.
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Re: Custom HUD not showing correctly

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RKD wrote:Not an expert but... isn't your rocket a custom image or something like that? Rocket ammo icon in (G)ZDoom is "ROCKA0", not whatever "STRAMO" is. Check how the other icons are four letters followed by A and 0 (zero).
Yes. "STRAMO" is a custom graphic technically. It's the regular RocketAmmo graphic, but flipped on it's side.
And if you go back to the initial post, you'll see it appears just fine on Zandronum, which is by all accounts a significantly limited port in comparison to what GZ is capable of.
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Re: Custom HUD not showing correctly

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Blue Shadow wrote:
HellBlade64 wrote:I don't follow.
I'm pretty sure GZDoom is more than capable of displaying custom HUD graphics.
Something this simple shouldn't be outside it's capabilities.
I'd say at this point, the best thing to do is to post the HUD mod so we can take a look.
I guess so.
The file is nothing complicated, really. Just an SBARINFO lump and the custom graphic.
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Re: Custom HUD not showing correctly

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You need to put your graphic in a "graphics/" subfolder. GZDoom enforces strict namespacing rules for PK3s and won't load any graphics from the root.
Apparently Zandronum is more lax.

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