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It’s been quiet for a while, but we’ve been busy. The hud is close to complete. Here is a zip with 21 pictures covering most features of the hud. I’ll try to get M0re to upload them on the FB page tomorrow (Those fucking pictures sharing sites keep scaling my them into little fuzzy-unpleasant-to-view things).

Rapidshare: http://rapidshare.com/files/448532536/link_m0re_square_hud_beta_pictures.zip
Megaupload: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YY5DHKMK

Quoted from octochris

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The backbone is from g-mang.

I can’t see how any decent player would want to use this, as you can’t gauge things quickly. You can’t read your health quickly, you can’t read your ammo quickly, you can’t do anything quickly with this font. Surface that m0re uses has very noticeable differences between all the numbers, which means they are distinctive, and you can read them quickly without error.

Been testing this hud for a week now. When I first saw the screens I was thinking the same about the font. But actually it is easily readable ingame. Surprisingly even.
The scoreboard is brilliant, and the overall design of the hud is top notch in my opinion.
If any one of you have any doubts, wait for the release then try it. If you still feel it isn’t good, you can mock after.

Quoted from konr

[…]min.us is a great site.

It really really really isn’t.

I think you’ve used that website to upload screenshots from a wireplay game last week? I tried opening those but they only partially loaded (ie only the top of the image would show) (at first I actually believed you just took a screenshot to show how many stv specs you had). That, and loading took forever. Ridiculously slow and had to reload at least 20 times. I’d rather go imageshack.us (which is ridiculously slow as well but at least it’s somewhat reliable).

photobucket.com, just make sure you click “Direct Link” when copying the url.

I really like the look of the hud and look forward to the next release to give it a try. I love pixel fonts and the like so good luck with this!

any screens of the scoreboard?

i like the look of the hud, the only two things putting me off atm are the font and your concept for the scoreboard

That’s actually really good, I like it.

I feel having the skull right next to the class icon would be better though, as atm you have to look there and then to the very left of the board to get the information you need most quickly. Since they are both icons, it’s easy to distinguish. Just having the row turn darker when dead means you have to distinguish between shades as well, and takes a little more concentration.

Since all the other info on the board is needed less urgently, you can then read it at your leisure when you have the time.

tldr: group quickly needed and easily distinguishable information together (class + deaths icons), and spread less urgent and slower to read info to sides (names, ping, score text).

Quoted from kuma

tldr: group quickly needed and easily distinguishable information together (class + deaths icons), and spread less urgent and slower to read info to sides (names, ping, score text).

I’m afraid I can’t remove or change the order of the scoreboard coloumns as I first expected, othewise I would have moved them around a bit. If anyone knows how, let me know.

Quoted from boomer

http://min.us/jlRxu2.PNG
am I missing a sticky counter on here somewhere?

Mebbe, I don’t. I took it out for the time being since it wasn’t really necessary and I couldn’t find a good place for it. Object loudly and I might put it in again.