hud

Game UI HUD

What are some good tools and techniques for making in game UI? I'm looking for things that help artists-types create and animate game HUD (heads up display) UI and can be added to the game engine for real time playback. ...

Are there any guidelines for appropriate use of the Black HUD UI in OS X?

Does anyone know what the HIG are saying about the black HUD UI in OS X? ...

Hide and Show HUD Window - Cocoa?

Hey all, I have a HUD window that has some labels on it, and I want this to show when the user presses a button. I know this is simple, but I can't get it to show again unless I restart my program. Sincerely, Kevin ...

Overlay text on some else's window - HUD

I am interested in writing an application that overlays a small heads up display (HUD) over another application, in VB.NET. What is an example of this? I will need to enumerate all open windows to find the window that I want, and then overlay some text in a specific position on the window. If the user moves that window, my text will n...

Mac OSX Overlay

How would I go about programming a HUD type overlay in OSX. I want to be able to have an application that will display text at a certain point over a different application's window. And thus if the (other applications) window moves the HUD part will stay at the same coordinate of the other window. ...

What technologies are best for making a heads-up display (HUD) for a third-party application in Windows?

I have a third-party (closed-source) application that I'd like to write a heads-up display (HUD) for. The HUD should at the very least be able to: Render text & graphics on top of the application window Intercept and forward mouse clicks to the application window What sorts of languages, APIs, libraries, etc., should I investigate fo...

Flash GUI Interface Hud

Hi, I would like to create a main menu and a hud within the application that stores and displays user information. Buttons like sound and main menu options should exist.. Now i cant seem to find any examples of how to create this user interface / hud. Any suggestions would be very helpful. Thanks, CS4 AS3 ...

translation/rotation of a HUD against a camera using vectors in Euclidian 3D space

i've got 2 points in 3D space: the camera position and the camera lookAt. the camera movement is restricted akin to typical first person shooter games. you can move the cam freely, tilt horizontally and up to 90 degrees vertically, but not roll. so now i want to draw a HUD to the screen, on which i can move the mouse freely, with the p...

iPhone HUD style progress bar

I've been wanting to create a HUD style loading bar like the SMS app on the iPhone used to have (http://www.jonokane.com/images/blog/iphoneFixProblem.jpg) but don't know how. I was wondering if anyone has done this before or if there is a tutorial somewhere for it? I just think it looks so nice and would like to use it rather than the bu...

OpenGL ES displaying HUD display has no color on top of textured 3D objects

Im a beginner on iphone OS development. I followed jeff's tutorial here about hud display in iphone OS http://iphonedevelopment.blogspot.com/2010/02/drawing-hud-display-in-opengl-es.html The sample works on the accompanying project with the isocahedron as the background of the HUD and the is working as expected with colors and the text....

OpenGL ES displaying HUD display Text can't be colored black on top of textured 3D objects

This is a follow-up of this question on here http://iphonedevelopment.blogspot.com/2010/02/drawing-hud-display-in-opengl-es.html It tackles on the HUD (heads up display) which is based on this tutorial > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2681102/opengl-es-displaying-hud-display-has-no-color-on-top-of-textured-3d-objects I wanted to set ...

how to customize the color of frame and title area of HUD panel

Hi, I need to let the user to customize the HUD window appearance. Is there a way to change the frame and the title area color of HUD window? There is an API for changing a background color of the window, but title and the frame stay semitransparent black. I'd like to avoid drawing these areas by myself. Thanks, Nava ...

Overlay for 3rd party application

Hi, I'm looking for a way to display an overlay (hud) for a third party application on MacOSX. It should look like this. My working steps would be: find window by title get resolution of window create own invisible window check for moving events of target window I'm not very familiar with MacOS programming with Carbon and Cocoa and...

o3d textures and transparency

I'm working at galery on o3d(plagin version) and I need make photos transparent. Photos are on hud. Here is some code: g_canvasInfoPict = o3djs.canvas.create(g_pack, g_hudRoot, g_hudViewInfo); alphaParam = g_canvasInfoPict.transparentState_.getStateParam("o3d.AlphaReference"); alphaParam.value = 0.5; alphaParam = g_canvasInfoPict.tran...

OpenGL Glass HUD?

Hello I Would like to know how to make somthing that looks like "Glass" the example would be in the game called Pikmin. its in the HUD and i would like to know how to create somthing similar. I Am not trying to copy the game i just like how it looks. It looks like this: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CWor6UdXxBk/SbaZDWSF6VI/AAAAAAAAFCU/UQgB...

Overlay a view over whole screen, when using UITabBarController?

I want to overlay a HUD-style transparent graphic over the entire screen in a UITabBarController setup. The button to do this is in the first tab's screen (FirstViewController), and the overlay should also cover the tabs... is this possible? ...