Drawing on player screen

[Apeirogon]

"Simple" question, how draw something on player screen in zscript? Like, table with some debug/cheat informations or number with signature what that number means?

I try look into d4d zgui and lost. What element, what list menu, what network process event? Сant understand from which side approach to understand.

[Matt]

The short answer for most of us non-technically-inclined users is to use ACS HudMessage for now. Folks are working on a much better interface for this sort of thing in ZS and we're better off waiting for that than kludge something together that would become obsolete/deprecated/grossly inefficient in comparison in a couple months.

More details here.

[Apeirogon]

ACS cant print some stored variable in item or from some actor. Well, technicaly it can, but it require call to machine spirit and dance with tambourine.

Question is how much to wait? d4d hud already exist and work, and in new version of gzdoom from them dont "falls off" anything.
From what I see, there are just trying to simplify drawing of anything. And there are already began battle with windmills of La Mancha(reference to Don Quixote) for PostUITick. Im not saying its not necessary, I say it can wait until we have "simple way to draw something on player screen"(TM).

[krokots]

"Simple" question, how draw something on player screen in zscript? Like, table with some debug/cheat informations or number with signature what that number means?

I try look into d4d zgui and lost. What element, what list menu, what network process event? Сant understand from which side approach to understand.

So, for simplicity, you can create two things in ZScript which adds graphics to player screen : HUD and MENU. I get that you want to add some values to HUD, so it would show them all the time.
It is not that hard, you need to :
1) Create own HUD / Status bar class which inherits from BaseStatusBar. I recommend just to copy all class DoomStatusBar from doom_sbar.txt in statusbar folder in gzdoom.pk3, rename it to some other class name.
2) In MAPINFO add information about your new hud

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Gameinfo
{
	StatusBarClass = "MyNewHUD"
}

3) Now you can add stuff to the copied Doom HUD. Inside this class you have two functions : protected void DrawMainBar (double TicFrac) and protected void DrawFullScreenStuff (). Just add to that what you want to draw.
you can draw additional stuff using these functions:

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	native void DrawTexture(TextureID texture, Vector2 pos, int flags = 0, double Alpha = 1., Vector2 box = (-1, -1), Vector2 scale = (1, 1));
	native void DrawImage(String texture, Vector2 pos, int flags = 0, double Alpha = 1., Vector2 box = (-1, -1), Vector2 scale = (1, 1));
	native void DrawString(HUDFont font, String string, Vector2 pos, int flags = 0, int translation = Font.CR_UNTRANSLATED, double Alpha = 1., int wrapwidth = -1, int linespacing = 4);

If you need a pointer to player, use : CPlayer.mo. This is an player actor (PlayerPawn) that is seeing the HUD.
If you need additional info how to add stuff - sprites or text to HUD, i'll help.

[Apeirogon]

What means vector2 box?
From what point start coordinate for vector2 pos?
Draw main bar is sbar with doom guy face and draw fullscreen stuff draw something on entire screen!?
Draw string accepts strings from string array?

[krokots]

What means vector2 box?
From what point start coordinate for vector2 pos?
Draw main bar is sbar with doom guy face and draw fullscreen stuff draw something on entire screen!?
Draw string accepts strings from string array?

I think box is just cropping box(cropping is a word? box that crops), ignore it for now or experiment what can it do (I didn't use it I think).
Draw main bar yes, it's the bar with DoomGuy's face, and full screen is the one with...well, full screen. Health and ammo in corners.
Draw string will accept any string, from array too (that is MyArray of strings).

I don't remember how coords in HUD work exactly, but when I started creating my own HUD, i just thrown in pos (0, 0), just to see where it draws stuff. I recommend starting with 0, 0, see where it draws, and then correct it.