Hi all,

I am playing around with making a custom HUD, and am having issues with displaying text for health, ammo etc.

Can someone point me to a lua guide that shows the formatting for displaying variables in text?

And also how can I reference the current weapons image\icons to display on screen...

Thanks in advance

Reliquia....

Text(X position %,Y position %,text size 1 to 7,"actual text") ----- puts your text starting at the X Y coordinates and in the size you specify

TextCenterOnX(X position %,Y position %,text size 1 to 7,"actual text") -----puts your text cantered at the X Y coordinates and in the size you specify

TextColor(X position %,Y position %,text size 1 to 7,"actual text",red,green,blue) ----- puts your text starting at the X Y coordinates and in the size you specify in the colors specified at the end (ie pure red would be 250,0,0 etc.

TextCenterOnXColor(X position %,Y position %,text size 1 to 7,"actual text",red,green,blue) ----- puts your text cantered at the X Y coordinates and in the size you specify in the colors specified at the end (ie pure red would be 250,0,0 etc.

Sorry, I don't know about weapon icons.

@Belidos, thanks for the info. The positioning of text as outlined above is Ok - I have that all working great - thanks.

The issue I am having is correct formatting for displaying values as text.

For example:

This displays the values for Health and Lives:


However these two lines throw errors:


Also I think maybe I should be casting the values some how before using them as text....

Reliquia....

You have to tell it you variable is a variable by prefixing it with ..

Text(x,y,size,"text"..variable)

Text(x,y,size,"text"..variable,r,g,b)

That should do it ...


I'll double check sand elaborate when i get into work, can't at the moment as I'm using my phone.

Daft phone double posted lol

OK, here we go....

To display player health:

The current health variable is g_PlayerHealth, to display the maximum/starting health you need to convert it from a gameloop variable to a variable that can be read in the script, so you would add g_max_PlayerHealth = g_gameloop_StartHealth and use g_max_PlayerHealth as your variable.



To display ammo:

The variable for your current ammo count is g_PlayerGunAmmoCount, and the variable for your clip count is g_PlayerGunClipCount.



To display lives:

The variable for lives is g_PlayerLives



I'm fairly sure that's right, at least i'm sure that's how i've used it in my hud script.

@Belidos, thanks for your help. Much appreciated!

Just have to work out how to reference the current weapon, but the text is all under control. Thanks again!

Reliquia....

You're welcome, sorry i can't help with the weapon stuff, i've been wondering how to do that myself.

g_PlayerGunName = ""
gets the full name of the currently held gun but it will also include any sub folders
use it like
Prompt("current gun = "..g_PlayerGunName)