Advanced HUD Tools

[Lancelot]

I'll try to figure this out. After my current project.

[moggie100]

The ever-requested circle is here!



They also come in a [BETA] filled mode! (works for solid color, looks crummy in transparent, and looks worse at large sizes... ergh, works fine unfilled though!)

[TomyLobo]

why $ prefixed? just check for (uppercase) letters

[moggie100]

why $ prefixed? just check for (uppercase) letters

There's some ambiguity in the syntax at the moment, as constants can have numbers in them, they overlap with other pattern matches, causing variables to be miss-recognised as constants.

I'll fix this at some later stage, but the simplest thing to fix it was to add something unique, and no other value can have a $ start - made for easy parsing.

Also; I got fed up with messing with Lua patterns, and wanted a change of pace :P

[Count23]

Is there a problem with the advanced hud's drawing position? I tried to draw text boxes and no matter what happens, they only draw in teh top left corner, regardless of the x/y coordinates given to them.

[moggie100]

Is there a problem with the advanced hud's drawing position? I tried to draw text boxes and no matter what happens, they only draw in teh top left corner, regardless of the x/y coordinates given to them.

Are you using the indicator from within a pod? If so, there is a known bug with v1 where the positions wont update until at least one changes to push an update.

There are posts about this a few pages back iirc.

[emspike]

For circles you should be able to fill in sectors.

Also, you should have a point-to-point line that can use rope/trail/wire textures.

EDIT: Could you perhaps register E2 functions that can turn screen coordinates into world coordinates and vice versa? Could be useful for hybrid-coordinate HUDs.

[TomyLobo]

the screen is client-side, so no

[Yukondano2]

Are you using the indicator from within a pod? If so, there is a known bug with v1 where the positions wont update until at least one changes to push an update.

There are posts about this a few pages back iirc.

Yeah..... here is the thing.
I use this thing, set up a cross hair on a non player character, and The freaking cross hair is somewhere out in space. What i haven't tried is using a beacon sensor attached to it. I'm just wondering why its doing that? i set it to world positions, wire the 1 input on the adv pod controller to the target finder, and that glitch happens. I can fix it, I'm just confused why it glitched in the first place.

[Schilcote]

Umm... I'm pretty sure that's not how it works. You need to wire X Y and Z to the World_X WorldY and World_Z outputs of a beacon sensor hooked up to your target finder.