Team health gauge idea

[MrBlackDX]

Could it be possible to create a gauge in the HUD which gives information on other team mates health?

Or maybe a function activated with a key/bind?

[Kaiden]

Sounds cool, but who would create such a thing?

[Dae]

It's not hard, but the way of implementing depends on how much freedom do we have. In other words, is it supposed to be added in DXAG (moar freedom) or just in any gametype in DXMP (less freedom)?

[Alex]

Could it be possible to create a gauge in the HUD which gives information on other team mates health?

Or maybe a function activated with a key/bind?

Use targetting.

[Allan]

From my experience, Targeting is quite inaccurate. It takes one health value, and places it as the value for them all. Or works out the mean average, one or the other.

But yeah, the thing in Targeting seems to suck ass for me.

[Alex]

From my experience, Targeting is quite inaccurate. It takes one health value, and places it as the value for them all. Or works out the mean average, one or the other.

But yeah, the thing in Targeting seems to suck ass for me.

It still is information about the player's health.

[Kaiden]

Could it be possible to create a gauge in the HUD which gives information on other team mates health?

Or maybe a function activated with a key/bind?

Use targetting.

Maybe, he means use the health display targetting gives, and have it permenantly placed at the top of the screen displaying health for those on your team? But what if there are 20 on your team.. Won't your screen get kinda flooded? ^_^. Unless you restrict it too 3/5 or something.. but then you would need some sort of choosing menu too. :/.

[MrBlackDX]

Could it be possible to create a gauge in the HUD which gives information on other team mates health?

Or maybe a function activated with a key/bind?

Use targetting.

Maybe, he means use the health display targetting gives, and have it permenantly placed at the top of the screen displaying health for those on your team? But what if there are 20 on your team.. Won't your screen get kinda flooded? ^_^. Unless you restrict it too 3/5 or something.. but then you would need some sort of choosing menu too. :/.

aka the activating by using a key/bind

and although the use on dxag would be immense, on DXMP in general it would still be useful

[Cereal]

I believe, and I could be wrong on this, but I believe Lionheart used the targetting aug to display the health of nearby players on the side of the screen, be it enemies OR friendly. So it's possible. I haven't talked to him in forever though.

[synthetic]

targeting is a bs of a reply, and I saw such mod few days ago in action in public server. Color of the health bar was black instead of red and it also showed when enemy moved behind walls sort of, which gave it FEAR-like effect.

[Zantinzuken]

Good idea Ben. It would certainly help the team aspect of the game, I'd like to see it done.

Something like a hud (similar to weapons) or even just names with a percentage beside them.

[MrBlackDX]

Or even teamplayers names on one side/in score list with different colours to give a different health status;

Green - 75%+

Yellow - 50-75

Orange 25-50

Red 0-25

[synthetic]

the fact that i saw such mod in action some days ago claims no notice what so ever

Indeed it wasnt quite what you plan here, with all the gui ideas.

[MrBlackDX]

the fact that i saw such mod in action some days ago claims no notice what so ever

Indeed it wasnt quite what you plan here, with all the gui ideas.

can you elaborate on the actual functioning of it?

[Mastakilla]

Or even teamplayers names on one side/in score list with different colours to give a different health status;

Green - 75%+

Yellow - 50-75

Orange 25-50

Red 0-25

What if you're colour blind?

[Zantinzuken]

For colour blind people:

Green - 75%+

Yellow - 50-75

Orange 25-50

Red 0-25

ps. if you're colour blind, kill yourself.

[Alex]

For colour blind people:

Green - 75%+

Yellow - 50-75

Orange 25-50

Red 0-25

ps. if you're colour blind, kill yourself.

Yea, you're right. There aren't colour blind people in Deus Ex anyways, I think =/

[Zantinzuken]

I'm actually slightly colourblind and could eventually go colourblind when I'm older as it's in the family...delicious irony

But I did notice it anyway Alex, I noticed

[Ayleth]

could you just attach an actor to the players and have like a scripted texture floating above the player as a sprite? Im sure that could be done. If allans imtyping mod could read/write to the player without a new gametype/playerclass, this should be no problem. mind you, then there would be the text above all players, unless you made the gfx clientside and then did a teamcheck. Then again, would the scripted txtr be possible? Ive heard that someone made a clock scripted texture for dx. i cannot remember where tho

EDIT:: Ahh Found it: it was a post by smuggler on the DXEditing forums
http://www.dxediting.com/forums/showthread.php?t=185&page=2

[Alex]

could you just attach an actor to the players and have like a scripted texture floating above the player as a sprite? Im sure that could be done. If allans imtyping mod could read/write to the player without a new gametype/playerclass, this should be no problem. mind you, then there would be the text above all players, unless you made the gfx clientside and then did a teamcheck. Then again, would the scripted txtr be possible? Ive heard that someone made a clock scripted texture for dx. i cannot remember where tho

EDIT:: Ahh Found it: it was a post by smuggler on the DXEditing forums
http://www.dxediting.com/forums/showthread.php?t=185&page=2

First of all. Adding a texture floating in front of you --> Bad. It will look ugly, and you will not be able to read from it. Secondly, some people have set their texture details to low. They cannot see the textures, such as sprites, wall textures, 100%, as in, they can't read them, but they can read the HUD. Third, the clock is a texture placed on the wall. You can't just place it on an actor.

MrBlack, I'll take a look at it some time. I know how to do it, and for me it's quite easy. If you could just fully type out what you want, then I will try. I won't react in the next few days, going on vacation.

[synthetic]

Does anyone know who made that health mod (functional or not, probably not)? Because I liked the FEAR aspect of it.

How about creating a mod that would show where your teammates are, so you can easily assist them as you see enemy move to their position.

In quake 3 there was some HUD mod for it, and Imo it looked ugly.
Having floating textures running along with the players is easy to get used to however, especially as your goal is NOT to hit them.

What I have in mind is small symbol, two different types for 2 sides. They will not have to read anything from it.

Point would be that this symbol shows through walls, indefinitely or until certain distance. I thought Id just add this here as that health mod I saw and mentioned sort of did the trick.

[Cozmo]

A scripted texture wouldn't be bad. If it was just a green bar that could go down, even on low detail it would be recognizable.

I'm making it!

[Professor Layton]

Question is how it would look on very low detail >_<

[Allan]

A scripted texture wouldn't be bad. If it was just a green bar that could go down, even on low detail it would be recognizable.

I'm making it!

I've got something like it working on a text-only window so far.

Only problem is, for reasons beyond my knowledge, the window causes immense FPS dropout. You can go from 60 to 20 instantly, and eventually as low as 6! :O

[Big Daddy]

ZOMG!! What could make it so slow?!

[Allan]

I've sorted it now. Just moved from PostDrawWindow to Tick. God only knows what its problem was... :S

Now, to the annoying issue of making it realise i'm pressing buttons! *flies off to try and fix*

[Cozmo]

I've sorted it now. Just moved from PostDrawWindow to Tick. God only knows what its problem was... :S

Now, to the annoying issue of making it realise i'm pressing buttons! *flies off to try and fix*

I'm making it!

[Allan]

Care to share ideas?

[KillerZ]

An option to use a MedKit on a nearby teammember with health below 50%

[Allan]

I'm not a miracle worker! I don't know how to do that