Replicating HudMessage in ZScript
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Replicating HudMessage in ZScript
How would I go about replicating [wiki]HudMessage[/wiki] in ZScript? I want to be able to cleanly print, scale and possibly move around text/graphics with similar flexibility to ACS. Additive rendering/opacity would be a nice bonus, too.
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Re: Replicating HudMessage in ZScript
Sorry for bumping without an answer, but I really want to know this too.
Right now the following are prohibitively difficult in ZS as far as I've seen, that are fairly straightforward in ACS:
1. Drawing stuff on an arbitrary player's screen at an arbitrary time, without replacing the player or the statusbar or constantly polling for the presence of the thing in question
2. Drawing stuff for a certain amount of time (a lot less problematic than #1 since you can just create a counter, but throw in some effects like typing text onto the screen and things get exponentially complex)
3. Stretching, placing and moving stuff around in a way that scales in a sane manner for varying aspect ratios
4. Centering something on the screen that isn't a statusbar element
Right now the following are prohibitively difficult in ZS as far as I've seen, that are fairly straightforward in ACS:
1. Drawing stuff on an arbitrary player's screen at an arbitrary time, without replacing the player or the statusbar or constantly polling for the presence of the thing in question
2. Drawing stuff for a certain amount of time (a lot less problematic than #1 since you can just create a counter, but throw in some effects like typing text onto the screen and things get exponentially complex)
3. Stretching, placing and moving stuff around in a way that scales in a sane manner for varying aspect ratios
4. Centering something on the screen that isn't a statusbar element