[RELZ] HUD Improved

TES Nexus: http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=34713


Name: HUD Improved
Version: 1.05
Date: 14/09/2010 19:07:41
Author(s): Forli

Description
========

"HUD improved" is a simple and configurable mod that change the appearance of the HUD.
It has been created for DarNified UI, so others UI mod are not compatibles.
MIn the future I will make different versions for the most popular UI mods.
This is the DarNified UI version




These are the features:

- Added a charge bar, to show the current charge of your weapon. It only show for enchanted weapons.

- Added the shield and torch icons, to show your current equipped shield and torch.

- Added new HUD elements to show your gold, encumberance and game time, (They can be Pop-ups, always visilble, or auto hide when in combat)

- Autohide your health, magicka, fatigue, durability and charge bars (Indipendently) when at maximum and force show them in combat.

- Autohide the compass: You can hide it when combat and/or when in interior or exterior cells.

- Autohide your weapon and spell icons. They will only show when:
WEAPON ICON:
- you draw the weapon/fists
- you equip another weapon

SPELL ICON:
- you change the current spell
- you cast the current spell

(OPTIONAL) BOTH ICONS:
- you are in combat

When no one of these condition is met, the icons will hide in 5 seconds.
You can decide to consider both icons as one. They will show/hide together with all the above conditions.


- Durability and Charge bars automatically hide when no weapon is equipped.

- Shield icon, Durability and Charge bars will hide when weapon icon does (No way to change this).

- The aspect of your Durability bar change if your armorer skill is above 75 (Because you can repair your equipment up to 125).

- The 4 icons (weapon, spell, shield and torch) will be positioned automatically, if any of them is hidden.

- You can show all the hidden HUD elements (Only if hidden by this mod) with a single key.

- You can enable/disable/configure every single feature in the file "HUDImproved.ini" and during the game.






NOTE: You will always need to change the DarNfied settings in the page 5.
This mod will never interfere with these settings.






Requirements
==========
Oblivion Patch 1.2.0.214 (Official 1.2 Patch)
Oblivion Script Extender v19 - http://obse.silverlock.org/
DarNifiedUI - http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=10763



Installation Instructions
=================
Just extract the archive in your "Oblivion\Data" folder.


Files:

HUDImproved.esp
HUDImproved.ini
HUDImproved Readme.txt

Textures\Menus\Darn\hud_ribbon_charge_empty.dds
Textures\Menus\Darn\hud_ribbon_weapon_empty100.dds
Textures\Menus\Darn\hud_ribbon_weapon_empty125.dds
Textures\Menus\HUD\hud_ribbon_durability_full.dds
Textures\Menus\HUD\hud_back_popup.dds
Textures\Menus\Icons\HUDI\HUDISettingsToken.dds
Textures\Menus\Icons\HUDI\HUDI_Default_Shield.dds

Menus\Main\hud_main_menu.xml
Menus\Prefabs\Darn\hudmainmenu_config.xml
Menus\Prefabs\HUDI\HUDI_extra_elements.xml


For now it's near-impossible to import all the changes to your "hud_main_menu.xml"
In the future I will try to increase XML compatibility



Uninstallation Instructions
===================
Load the game, open your inventory, find and activate the token "+HUDI Settings". The settings menu will apppear: click on "Disable", close the menu, save and exit.
Delete the files and restore the original DarNifiedUI files.



Configuration
==========
All the features of this mod are configurable.

SETTINGS MENU
I suggest you to change all the settings in game, using the HUDI Settings menu.
An item called "+HUDI Settings" will be added to your inventory in the "Misc" section.
Activate it to show the settings menu.


INI FILE
If you want to configure the mod while not in game, open and edit "HUDImproved.ini".
If you change a settings to an invalid values, the mod will use the default value.
After you change the ini, reload it in game using the settings menu.
You don't need to reload the ini if this is your first installation.


There's more at "HUDI Readme.txt"


Incompatibility
===========

You can use this mod with only DarNified UI. You can try to use it with other UI mods, but I'll take no responsibility.

If you have edited the DarNified Xml files, try to export all the changes you made to the HUDI Xml files
(I suggest you don't try the opposite way: It's very hard to export all the changes I made to "hud_main_menu.xml" and, again, I'll take no responsibility).

It SHOULD be compatible with DarkUI. (Tell me if not)

There shouldn't be other incompatibilities (The mod works entirely through scripts).



Known Issues
===========
None. Tell me about every bug you found.



Change Log
=========

1.05
Fixed the time bug for minutes from 0 to 9.
Fixed a little glitch in the settings menu

1.0
Initial Release.



Credits
======
Darn for his mod DarNified UI
kyoma, TheNiceOne and LogicDragon for their help with the scripts
The OBSE team for OBSE
Bethesda for game Oblivion
..... (Tell me if I forgot somebody....)



Legal
=======
You have to ask me to redistribuite any part of this mod.

this looks to be the next indispensable step to better UI! :goodjob: am using Dark Darn. report back for compatibility once i get to test it.

I'm searching for any new idea to improve it

Oehh, looks nice. Gonna try this out a bit.

You wont regret it

Couple of questions/things...

1. Where are / What values do I change if I want to move the default location of the Gold/Emcumbrance/Timer boxes (X,Y values) ?

2. Timer box is displaying an anomaly .. when it is 9:02 it will display 9:2 , 8:03 as 8:3 etc.... until it reaches a double digit minute time then it displays correctly..(9:10 displays as 9:10, 8:16 as 8:16 etc.)

3. Encumbrance value is incorrect...mine is displaying as 0/2 (Actual ingame is 145/192)

4. Also...what values do I change to have a transparent background on the Gold/Encumbrance/Timer boxes ?

5. I would like to move the default location of the torch icon as well. ??



Installing this was fairly simple...I merged my edits from my hud_main_menu.xml easy enough and got my minimap working again....I didn't realize I had already modified my prefabs/darn/hudmainmenu_config.xml file so when I overwrote the file with yours it tossed out my preset darn config and I had to makes those changes again. Easy enough. Will be a keeper if I can get the questions above resolved.


edit: I noticed the popups are linked to the timer location (specifically the y variable). I have figured out that changing the y variable on the timer will move the gold and encumbrance boxes as well. The other questions I haven't figured out myself as yet.

I can haz Nehrim version pls?

This looks great. I'll give some feedback after install.

One issue: Is OBSE v19 specifically required as listed? I was under the impression v19 was still not quite ready for general use. No problem if so, I'd just rather not introduce any new complexity to an already tricky collection of mod scripts.

edit: never mind, just read the Nexus post on that

Two quick questions:
Are the icons for spells, weapon, shield, and torch scalable?
Is the background for the popups on the left able to be transparent and not a solid black?

Regardless it looks very nice, and if these two are a possibility I will DL it immediately!

1 - You have figured out
2 - I know that. I will fix it
3 - Strange... I will look at that
4 - Look at value in every "Background" in HUD_extra.xml.
5 - The torch isn't linked to any other element, but it move if other icons are hidden. You can delete the and code for the torch in HUD_extra.xml to remove this feature, then put your value.

I can haz Nehrim version pls?

I think it should work also with Nehrim, if you remove the Oblivion.esm requirement with wrye bash.
Tell me if not.

Two quick questions:
Are the icons for spells, weapon, shield, and torch scalable?
Is the background for the popups on the left able to be transparent and not a solid black?

Regardless it looks very nice, and if these two are a possibility I will DL it immediately!

1 - Yes, the icons are scalable, but not the pop-ups (For some reason, they don't scale but cut the box and the text)
2 - Yes with value in HUD_extra.xml

Ok, players says that Dark UI Darn is full compatible.

Awesome thanks Forli. Might want to change or upload a photo on nexus that shows that the background can be changed and icons are scalable or something, as those were the two things that put me off at first. So good work my good sir, look forward to more releases in the future

Little update:
Fixed the time bug for minutes from 0 to 9
Fixed a little glitch in the settings menu

As requested, I'm working on add "ALPHA" settings.
In the future I will try to implement the "Time box" by adding "Real time" under "Game time"
Any other suggestion?

Just that be "user friendly" in all possible aspects. Less touching on editing xml files like Darn outside of the game, more permanent in-game adjusting.

Is this compatible with the experience bar from Oblivion XP?

NVM: read the discussion on Nexus! Great, I will give it a shot!

I assume this is compatible with DarkUI'd Darn, also?

EDIT

Oh, I read that it should be compatible in the OP. Sorry for asking a documented question.

In the future, every aspect of the new HUD elements will be configurable, but, as I said in the description, I will not touch the Darn page settings (not now).
First thing to do is improve the mod and fix any bug.
Then I will make different version for the others UI mod.
At last I will complete it (Example: permanent edits in Darn settings page)

You won't have to, when ConScribe is updated I'll release a mod that basically means permanent ingame settings! Oh and that is without changing the XML itself or mess up any external editing of the XML.

I hate how you have to search in the Darn xml file to make permanent changes.

It seems you should be able to do this in-game on-the-fly and have it stay that way.

Wouldn't it be possible to use MenuQue to automatically enter the changes into whatever UI the player is using? It seems to me that you could probably have it insert things wherever they're needed instead of seperately porting it to every popular UI...

...or am I wrong about what it does?

Ok!

I get a pretty steady flickering of the status bars. I wonder what could be causing that?

Didn't shademe already update conscribe a few days ago?

I don't know. This happend even remove the mod and restore all the original xml files from Darnified UI?
To remove the mod, disable it in the HUD settings menu, save and deactivate it.

No, it doesn't happen when I have the mod removed.