FlexiHUD - a universal, extremely flexible HUD mod (3.0.0 released)

[Anim8]

Works together now.

I noticed you changed the reticleHitMarker, from Simple Triangle to Diagonal bars.
I quite liked the Simple Triangle reticleHitMarkers you had in v2.1.

Maybe include an option to choose the reticleHitMarker shape?

Thanks

[Jekyll Grim Payne]

Maybe include an option to choose the reticleHitMarker shape?

Yes, I think I could add a few options for the shapes.

UPD: Pushed a commit that adds several options. The one used in 2.0.0 is called "4 angled triangles".

[DeckardDetribine]

Question: After 3.0.0 releases, will we still be able to use FlexiHUD to completely replace a given gameplay mod's HUD if desired?

[Jekyll Grim Payne]

Question: After 3.0.0 releases, will we still be able to use FlexiHUD to completely replace a given gameplay mod's HUD if desired?

Not literally, as in, the original HUD will still be there, but you can simply hide it as usual (by pressing the = key twice or typing screenblocks 12 in the console), and then only FlexiHUD will be visible instead.

The existing HUD system doesn't allow for any flexibility. There's no way to add multiple HUDs and let the user switch between them, and there's no way for me to let the user choose whether FlexiHUD replaces the base HUD or is drawn on top. However, by simply hiding the base HUD you'll get the same functionality. FlexiHUD will also respect stuff like cutscenes (it won't render if your camera changes to something other than your player actor).

[Anim8]

Maybe include an option to choose the reticleHitMarker shape?

Yes, I think I could add a few options for the shapes.

UPD: Pushed a commit that adds several options. The one used in 2.0.0 is called "4 angled triangles".

Thanks for that,

Crash report: (Was using GZDoom g4.11.3)

VM execution aborted: tried to read from address zero
Called from JGPUFH_FlexibleHUD.DrawEnemyHitMarker at UniveralFlexibleHUD-main.zip:ufhzscript/ufh_evhud.zs, line 1803
Called from JGPUFH_FlexibleHUD.RenderOverlay at UniversalFlexibleHUD-main.zip:ufhzscript/ufh_evhud.zs, line 433


Seem to trigger this error when changing the "Hit markers shape" in the "Crosshair options" to either Disk, Diamond or Square.

[Jekyll Grim Payne]

Thanks for that,

Crash report: (Was using GZDoom g4.11.3)

VM execution aborted: tried to read from address zero
Called from JGPUFH_FlexibleHUD.DrawEnemyHitMarker at UniveralFlexibleHUD-main.zip:ufhzscript/ufh_evhud.zs, line 1803
Called from JGPUFH_FlexibleHUD.RenderOverlay at UniversalFlexibleHUD-main.zip:ufhzscript/ufh_evhud.zs, line 433


Seem to trigger this error when changing the "Hit markers shape" in the "Crosshair options" to either Disk, Diamond or Square.

Did you start the game with the minimap disabled, per chance? That might be the reason, since the same Shape2D objects are used for minimap and for the disk/square/diamond hitmarkers. I'll work on fixing that.

UPD: Should be fixed now.

[Anim8]

Did you start the game with the minimap disabled, per chance? That might be the reason, since the same Shape2D objects are used for minimap and for the disk/square/diamond hitmarkers. I'll work on fixing that.

UPD: Should be fixed now.

Yes I did have the minimap disabled.

The hit marker shapes are all working now with the recent commit/s.

[Jekyll Grim Payne]

Happy to let you know that FlexiHUD 3.0.0 is finally released! DOWNLOAD

v3.0.0 patchnotes

Core functionality
FlexiHUD is no longer a statusbar class, but is drawn with an event handler. This means that it's not a replacement for other HUDs but is instead drawn on top of them. This allows the following:

• You can now choose to use only specific elements of FlexiHUD (such as the minimap or the weapon slots) and combine them with the existing HUD from the game/mod you're playing.
• FlexiHUD itself can be completely hidden from the FlexiHUD options menu, or with a dedicated key bind (can be set in the options menu).
• The looks haven't changed: FlexiHUD is still drawn at the virtual resolution of 320x200 and scaled the same way as the basic HUD (in accordance with the User Interface/HUD scaling settings).

If you only want to see FlexiHUD, you can still hide the native HUD from the game/mod you're playing by pressing the = key twice or setting `screenblocks 12` in the console.

General

• The mod now features a USER PRESETS system by @RicardoLuis0. This system allows user to save their current HUD settings into a preset with a specific name. Now you will be able to easily switch between your favorite HUD compositions instead of having to set up everything the way you want every time! This mod also comes with a small list of built-in presets.
• Added "preview mode" for certain HUD elements. How it works: if you open FlexiHUD options menu, the elements that are currently not visible in the game (such as powerup timers whille you don't have any active powerups, or the keys block while you don't have any keys) will be displayed as pulsing grey previews that represent the placement and size of those elements. This will let the players easily adjust the look of all HUD elements without having to meet the conditions to make those elements visible first.
• FlexiHUD will now be fully hidden while the automap is open. This is done mostly because 1) if you run it with a vanilla HUD (like the standard Doom/Heretic/Hexen HUD), that HUD will unconditionally draw its statusbar version when the automap is open, and you don't want to see two HUDs at the same time; 2) I generally feel like you won't need most of the HUD with the automap open anyway.
• Animated HUD elements (such as the scrolling inventory bar, the bars around the crosshair, etc.) are now updated smoothly in accordance with your framerate, rather than once per tic.

Putting block-specific patchnotes under a spoiler, since there's quite a lot:

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Health and armor

• The health icon will change from black & white to red & black if the player has Berserk (or another PowerStrength-based powerup).
• Maximum amount of armor in Hexen will now be properly calculated to the value defined in the current player class instead of being always set to 80.

Powerup timers

• The timers are now drawn on top of the powerup icons rather than to the side, and the timer text is now yellow.
• Added an option to arrange powerup timers horizontally.
• There will be a 1px indentation between the icons of different powerups.
• When a powerup's duration is running out, its icon will blink rather than the timer text.

Hit markers

• New option: "Hit markers shape" - lets you pick a specific shape for the hit marker. Possible shapes: Cross, Angled cross, 4 triangles, 4 angled triangles, Circle, Disk, Square, Diamond.
• New option: "Hit markers size". At 0 the hitmarker will scale with the crosshair size, otherwise you can set an explicit size.
• New option: "Hit markers color". Self-explanatory.
• The size of hit markers will no longer change with the HUD, and will instead scale separately, with the crosshair or with the "Hit markers size" option.

Minimap, monster markers and map data
Fixes and technical changes

• Fixed incorrect culling of the lines rendered on the minimap at certain User Interface Scale values.
• Fixed map data elements (Kills/Items/Secrets/Time) not being positioned correctly when the element was at the bottom of the screen.
• The minimap's rotation and positioning is now handled with subtic interpolation, for smooth, framerate-based rotation.
• The title of this menu has been renamed to "Minimap, radar and map data" to better represent its meaning
• When enabled, the minimap and the monster radar will update even when the pause menu is open. This means that, for example, if the minimap/radar was disabled and then you enable it from the menu, you will immediately see the lines/markers on it, rather than seeing a blank minimap element.

General chages

• "Minimap display" option is now called "Minimap and monster radar display" and has 4 values: **Off / Monster markers only / Minimap only / Minimap and monster markers**. This means that monster markers and the minimap can be both shown separately and together. Options specific to the map or the enemy markers will now be controllable separately.
• The "Minimap size", "Minimap shape" and "Minimap zoom" options have been renamed to "Minimap/radar size", "Minimap/radar shape" and "Minimap/radar zoom" respectively, to better convey that they can be used even when the minimap is in radar-only mode, without the actual map.
• New option: "Background opacity." Lets you control the opacity of the minimap/radar background with a slider.
• New options: "Cardinal directions display" (Off / Along a circular trajectory / Along the minimap's edge), "Cardinal directions' color", "Cardinal directions' size". Available when "Minimap and monster radar display" is set to anything besides Off. These options allow you to enable the display for cardinal directions (N, E, S, W) on the minimap. You can modify their size and color, and also control whether they always follow the minimap's edge (regardless of its current shape), or always follow a circular pattern (even when the minimap is using the square shape).
• The various options in this menu now will be properly grayed-out when they should. For example, the map colors will be grayed out if the minimap & map radar are set to "Off" or "Monster markers only".

Map drawing

• New options: "Lines around different floor heights" (on by default) and "Lines around different ceiling heights" (off by default). These toggles determine whether double-sided linedefs at the edges of sectors with different floor/ceiling heights will be rendered on the minimap. It's recommended to leave the "Lines around different ceiling heights" at Off to reduce visual noise, since those lines are normally irrelevant for navigation.
• The minimap will now also display generalized automap markers (the actors based on the internal MapMarker class; not to be confused with FlexiHUD-exclusive monster markers). These map markers are not used in any of the vanilla games but they are used in some mods (like Hellscape Navigator and Robust Map Markers) and some standalone games to create markers visible on the classic automap. These markers are rendered the same way as on the automap, using fixed scale according to the marker's own scale.

Monster markers

• New option: "Monster markers display". Controls whether markers for enemies are displayed on the minimap. Comes with 2 options: Only alerted enemies / All enemies. This option becomes available only when "Minimap and monster radar display" option is set to either "Monster markers only" or "Minimap and monster markers."
• New option: "Monster markers size" slider that controls the size of enemy markers on the minimap. The deafult value is "Match the size of the object", where the marker's size will represent the actual size of the monster, and thus will change relative to the map's zoom value. If the slider is set to an explicit value instead, the markers will render at the specified fixed size, regardless of the minimap's zoom value (which some users may find more readable).
• New option: "Monster markers shape" (Dot or Arrow).

Damage markers

• The angle of damage markers is now handled with smooth subtic interpolation.

Inventory bar

• Fixed a small visual issue where the inventory bar would always scroll to the right if the player cycled through it while having only 2 items in possession, even if the player actually pressed the button to scroll the bar to the left. It will now properly scroll to the direction according to the pressed button (invnext or invprev). (There's no practical difference, since with only 2 items, pressing either next or prev would select the same item.)
• Inventory bar scrolling is now handled smoothly, with framerate.

[mamaluigisbagel]

I think the weapon slots aren't working again, at least for me. I turned the option on/off, I moved the horizontal and vertical offsets to see if it was just offscreen, etc and never saw anything. Maybe its due to me using a dev build of GZDoom?

[Jekyll Grim Payne]

I think the weapon slots aren't working again, at least for me. I turned the option on/off, I moved the horizontal and vertical offsets to see if it was just offscreen, etc and never saw anything. Maybe its due to me using a dev build of GZDoom?

I tried gzdoom-x64-g4.12pre-373-gc8a7507e8 and cannot reproduce this, so I'm not sure. Maybe you have it at auto-hide? Try resetting settings to the default.

BTW, it's not possible to move an element out of the screen with offsets; they're set up in such a way that negative offsets just don't do anything if an element is at the screen edges, and positive offsets always move it towards the screen center.

[mamaluigisbagel]

Oddly the weapon slots showed up fine when used with a different config file, so it has to be something I changed. I'll look through my settings and see if I can figure it out.

EDIT: Its showing up now on the config file I was having problems with, so maybe I did have it set to auto hide. I could've sworn I tried the always on setting...

[mamaluigisbagel]

So after messing around a bit more, I noticed upon STARTING a game, sometimes a few HUD elements won't appear like the weapon slots and powerup timer. BUT upon finishing a level and advancing to the next, they reappear. I don't know if this is because of this mod or the gameplay mod used conflicting in some way. (NeoCore)

[Jekyll Grim Payne]

So after messing around a bit more, I noticed upon STARTING a game, sometimes a few HUD elements won't appear like the weapon slots and powerup timer. BUT upon finishing a level and advancing to the next, they reappear. I don't know if this is because of this mod or the gameplay mod used conflicting in some way. (NeoCore)

Okay, I was indeed able to reproduce this for weapon slots, and this is apparently the result of the slots being specified via KEYCONF, which is a very outdated method. However, I found a simple workaround, by staggering the parsing of weapon slots by 2 game tics. I just pushed a commit to the repository with that fix.

I can't reproduce this with powerups so far. I ran the mod you linked with FlexiHUD on Kinsie's test map, and the icons for active powerups appear properly for me:

[mamaluigisbagel]

Well I finally downloaded that test map (which I should've done years ago) and the powerups are working fine, so maybe I was wrong about that as I was going off of the preview, which wasn't appearing for me. Thanks for the fix for the slots, though!

[Jekyll Grim Payne]

Well I finally downloaded that test map (which I should've done years ago) and the powerups are working fine, so maybe I was wrong about that as I was going off of the preview, which wasn't appearing for me. Thanks for the fix for the slots, though!

There is a possible case where this may happen (when you receive a powerup without a PowerupGiver for it being present on the map). I've just pushed another commit that reworks how icons are assigned to those powerups that don't have an explicitly defined icon, and this will hopefully cover that edge case. (I was doing it inefficiently anyway.)