I can't seem to find any tutorials on this....or any custom creations...but I have created a new hud layer that I want to appear when I pick up an object.... just like the Jetpack... It isn't a weapon..so I am not referring to the hudlayer arms that appear when holding a weapon...

How do I go about setting this up scripting wise? The jetpack looked pretty complicated and it has files spread throughout all of gameguru's game folders..Not sure where to begin.

If I can just figure out how to set it up in the folders, and a maybe a line of script to call/exit it, that would help me loads. Again just to be clear, I am not talking about UI images such as health or anything like that. Im talking about an object that follows the player, the jetpack being a good example/

Thank you.

Theres not really a "HUD layer" as such in gameguru, we use sprites pasted on top of the screen to create huds, not at my pc at the moment, but if I get a free minute tomorrow I'll put something basic together to show you how it's done.

Scrub that I missed the last paragraph and thought you meant like health ammo inventory etc. That other stuff in the last paragraph I know nothing about lol

Dang it lol

I've been studying the jetpack....seems to have the hudlayer mentioned in the jetpack's .FPE...I've tried assigning my own similarly, but haven't had results.

no mention of HUDLayers in the jetpack.lua...at least that I was able to see.

it doesn't seem too difficult once I can figure it out

yeah when i said there are no real hud layers, i meant for health huds etc. i didn't realise you were talking about attachments.

I'm not really sure how the jetpack works, never really played with it, but i do know it works like a weapon the arms etc are in gamecore/hudlayers. How gameguru uses the jetpack on the character i have no idea, i think it's either hardcoded, or defined in the gameplayer.lua

Ah yes, the controls for it are defined in the gameplayercontrol.lua , no idea how it accesses the HUDlayer etc. might be hard coded.

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Edit: I think the HUD layer is prompted in the .FPE for the jetpack. the command is "ishudlayer = 1"
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Hm...

any idea how to find another solution to accomplish my goal?

My game is set to play in third person.

Some features I want to be switched in first person.

When that happens, i'd like to have a 3d hudlayer (kind of lik the jetpack, but no animation needed)

In this situation I want to use the grapple hook script, which only works best in first person. Setting it as a weapon won't allow me to to put it away/swap it out/pick up other stuff...so in a sense im like..faking my own weapon's system..

The way that it the grapple script works is there is a floating entity (whatever you assigned the script to) until it is fired, where it will launch and then pull you. I have the actual Hook of the grapple gun assigned to this... it looks good..but instead of having a floating hook, I want a static arm reaching out holding the grapple gun. I have already positioned the hook and the grapplegun/arm where I would need them to be if they were both in use...

Just not sure how to display the arm/grapplehook as a "show piece"

The jetpack is treated like a weapon, it has a HUD.X model and an fpe file to give it the correct setup - don't remember the exact folder but there is another (i.e. not the entitybank files) that will help

You has jetpack in gamecore folder, even the hudlayers and attachments.