Maybe a confusing title so let me go into more detail about what I'm trying to do: I thought it would a cool stylistic choice to, rather than the traditional doom mugshot, have my player character's face appear in the reflection of their visor similar to how Metroid Prime and Toy Story 2 do it, but I'm having a little trouble figuring out the how; Ideally I'd want to be able to change the opacity of the mugshots on the fly, keeping it at 0 or near 0 most of the time and then increasing it when you fire guns, pick up weapons, die etc, but I'm not sure if this is at all possible.
tl;dr Is there a way to change the opacity of HUD elements, specifically the mugshot, and if so how?
Variable opacity on mugshot?
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Re: Variable opacity on mugshot?
If you are using SBARINFO you can use the Alpha command to change the opacity of the next specified element.
If you are using ZScript, it depends on what function you use.
The default Doom status bar uses the following function to display the mugshot: DrawTexture(GetMugShot(5), (143, 168), DI_ITEM_OFFSETS);
The very next parameter of this function is alpha, so by doing this: DrawTexture(GetMugShot(5), (143, 168), DI_ITEM_OFFSETS, 0.5); you can render the mugshot at 50% opacity.
If you want it to only appear when specific conditions are done, you will have to experiment a bit.
For example set a variable inside the player class whenever they are firing and display the mugshot only when that variable is set to true.
If you are using ZScript, it depends on what function you use.
The default Doom status bar uses the following function to display the mugshot: DrawTexture(GetMugShot(5), (143, 168), DI_ITEM_OFFSETS);
The very next parameter of this function is alpha, so by doing this: DrawTexture(GetMugShot(5), (143, 168), DI_ITEM_OFFSETS, 0.5); you can render the mugshot at 50% opacity.
If you want it to only appear when specific conditions are done, you will have to experiment a bit.
For example set a variable inside the player class whenever they are firing and display the mugshot only when that variable is set to true.
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Re: Variable opacity on mugshot?
Either sound perfect! I'm just happy to hear there is a way to do this, will experiment with both when I get my HUD fully fitted, thanks!Jarewill wrote: ↑Thu Jun 01, 2023 4:11 pm If you are using SBARINFO you can use the Alpha command to change the opacity of the next specified element.
If you are using ZScript, it depends on what function you use.
The default Doom status bar uses the following function to display the mugshot: DrawTexture(GetMugShot(5), (143, 168), DI_ITEM_OFFSETS);
The very next parameter of this function is alpha, so by doing this: DrawTexture(GetMugShot(5), (143, 168), DI_ITEM_OFFSETS, 0.5); you can render the mugshot at 50% opacity.
If you want it to only appear when specific conditions are done, you will have to experiment a bit.
For example set a variable inside the player class whenever they are firing and display the mugshot only when that variable is set to true.