Optimizing huds for all resolutions

I was just thinking if its possible to optimize huds for all players even for those who has really low resolutions, because normally they wont see any of them or only half of the text. Because i made all my huds on my badass gaming pc with highest resolution, but some players wont see 'em.
If anyone knows, help me :P

Hey EvoloZz,

of course it is possible, add this to your hud element:

Code:

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self.hud = newClientHudElem(self);
self.hud.vertAlign = "fullscreen";
self.hud.horzAlign = "fullscreen";

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Thanks a lot :P

These are the valid values for...

vertAlign = "subtop" "top" "middle" "bottom" "fullscreen" "noscale" "alignto480" "center_safearea"
horzAlign = "subleft" left" "center" "right" "fullscreen" "noscale" "alignto640" "center_safearea"

This is the result with highest res:
Attachment 104
And this is result with lowest res:
Attachment 105
I have no idea why "headshots" is alone from all others :P

Maybe forgot to align only that element? Cant check since no source is posted :)

This is for headshots:

Code:

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                self.headshots = newClientHudElem(self);
                self.headshots.vertAlign = "fullscreen";
                self.headhosts.horzAlign = "fullscreen";
                self.headshots.x = 615;
                self.headshots.y = 300;

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And this is for bashes:

Code:

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                self.bashes = newClientHudElem(self);
                self.bashes.vertAlign = "fullscreen";
                self.bashes.horzAlign = "fullscreen";
                self.bashes.x = 615;
                self.bashes.y = 320;

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I don't see whats wrong

Could you name it self.headshots_2 for example?

Just to be sure its not changed somewhere later to a different position.

Haha, the problem was so simple, i am just blind. If you look closely at the headshot hud i posted you can see that instead of "headshots" i have "headhosts" in one of them. omg i am stupid

shit happens :D

I use this in my mod to align my huds in almost exactly the same spot in each resolution

PHP Code:

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hud.alignX = "right";
hud.alignY = "middle";
hud.horzAlign = "right";
hud.vertAlign = "bottom";
hud.x = -100;
hud.y = -200;
hud.label = &"^4Kills:   ^7";
hud setValue(kills); 


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What about if i want the value to be aligned with the element, kinda like this

Code:

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Kills:
 10

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Of course it would be easy just to do with x and y, but if the value was 1 number long and then changes to 2 numbers, it automatically moves little bit to the right, but i want it always to be in the middle and under of the element :P
Is that possible too?

Quote:

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Originally Posted by EvoloZz

What about if i want the value to be aligned with the element, kinda like this

Code:

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Kills:
 10

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Of course it would be easy just to do with x and y, but if the value was 1 number long and then changes to 2 numbers, it automatically moves little bit to the right, but i want it always to be in the middle and under of the element :P
Is that possible too?

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In a case like that you use a label:

Code:

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        rankstring = self getRankstring( self.pers["rank"] );

        if( !isDefined( self.rankhud ) )
        {
                self.rankhud = newClientHudElem( self );
                self.rankhud.horzAlign = "fullscreen";
                self.rankhud.vertAlign = "fullscreen";
                self.rankhud.alignX = "left";
                self.rankhud.alignY = "middle";
                self.rankhud.x = 10;
                self.rankhud.y = 474;
                self.rankhud.alpha = 1;
                self.rankhud.fontScale = 0.8;
                self.rankhud.label = &"RANK_RANK";
        }

        if( isDefined( self.rankhud ) ) self.rankhud setText( rankstring );

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And the localizedstring would be like this:

Code:

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REFERENCE                RANK
LANG_ENGLISH                "RANK: "

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The text, or alternatively, the value, sit inside the label, and is aligned by the settings for the self.rankhud hud element. A label is basically just a placeholder for some other element value.