New HUD for JKA (based on TFU-2) *Help*

[AshuraDX]

x1 & y1 should deal with the position while x2 and y2 describe how far the image extends from the position defined by x1 & y1

but @@therfiles knows way more about that stuff and might have to correct me here

[therfiles]

Correct! X1 and Y1 are the coordinates, and X2 and Y2 are the dimensions of the element.

[dark_apprentice]

Ok, that will be really big pain-in-the-ass to find out the correct numbers for the X₁ and Y₁ and for X₂ and Y₂ is there any chance that person to be found? (I mean the one, who started a project for visual editor of the .menu files)

[ensiform]

Menu editors don't help so much with JKA huds since the JKA hud code doesn't fully use the menu system at all.  Only the information from it.

[dark_apprentice]

So what you say @@ensiform is that I just have to figure it out, by the way of "try-out-mistake-edit" and lucky guessing the numbers?

[ensiform]

Yes? X Y Width Height

[dark_apprentice]

Ok, finally after 28 deleted files and tires the saber Logo of Jedi Knight IS on the right place at the left side, but there are still 2 main problems left to edit:

problem 1 - after I have finally managed to put the saber Logo on the place, where I want it (in the circle of the HUD), it's too tiny and I tried everything to make it "fat", but it doesn't work /instead of that the logo, goes in other positions around the screen, but not getting fatter/

problem 2 - it has a black background and it's on a ".TGA" file, is there a way to make it work with invisible .TGA (like the HUD files, they are on invisible background on .PNG files)?

I am really pissed off

[AshuraDX]

you need a proper alpha channel for your tgas

white=opaque, black=transparent

[dark_apprentice]

@@AshuraDX it is: 

Width: 512 pixels
Height: 256 pixels
Color: Black

and there is the saber logo, colored in red/green/blue for each of the saber styles (at the moment) but it shows it black inside the game and it's too tiny

[AshuraDX]

pass me your images and I'll mess around with them

[AshuraDX]

@@dark_apprentice , which program do you use to edit the images ? Photoshop ?

the alpha channels had to be edited and I'd prefer teaching you how you can do it yourself rather than just giving you the fixed files

 

you should also remove the Jedi Knight logo saber from your hudleft & hudright images to avoid any wierd issues

[dark_apprentice]

yes, I am using Adobe Photoshop - CS6. what is with the alpha channels?

And about he JK Logo from the hudleft/hudright I just keep it on the version I've send you, just to make your, that the saber style will be on the right position (perhaps you saw it if you used the .pk3 file, but it's too tiny and it must be bigger size)

[dark_apprentice]

Ok guys, here is the final version of this HUD for now, perhaps when I have more free time, I can try make one better version, but for now it's this. All you'll need is in description /read me/ and enjoy your game play.

http://jkhub.org/files/file/2037-tfu-2-hud-for-jka-by-dark-apprentice/