Proper DDRace HUD

[HMH]

So, as you might have heard I am working on the HUD and try to make it more useful for ddrace (for vanilla nothing changed so far and the ddrace stuff is ofcourse displayed only on DDNet-Servers).

Here is my first progress:

active weapon is highlighted

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As you see in the following screenshots I also played around with freeze. In future versions of ddnet the client will finally know wether you are frozen/deepfrozen and how long you need to wait to melt. This means we finally can replace the ninjaskin for freeze with something more suitable, same thing for the shields that display the freezetime.

This is the point where we need you and your creativity to find a nice way to display those things.

Some ideas that came to my mind:
- display an iceblock above the player if you are frozen
- display little icetees instead of shields for freezetime
- make a progressbar out of the shields

I would highly appreciate some more good ideas or even graphics.

normal freeze

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deepfreeze is darker atm

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[Fňokurka oo7]

Some ideas that came to my mind:
- display little icetees instead of shields for freezetime

In my opinion such detailed things as icetees isn't that good idea. If you have small screen; like me e.g., you can hardly see your own skin. And some people would see just a smudge.

So far so good. :)

[hannibal]

I wonder, does the weapon display use the graphics from the gameskin?

Looking forward to the changes and ugh, it's gonna be weird to adjust to a new freeze-graphic!

[HMH]

In my opinion such detailed things as icetees isn't that good idea. If you have small screen; like me e.g., you can hardly see your own skin. And some people would see just a smudge.

So far so good.

That's the reason why I ask for other ideas/opinions. And yes probably you are right we need something more simple.

I wonder, does the weapon display use the graphics from the gameskin?

Yes, it just picks the weapons from game.png.

[Ryozuki]

I like the ninja skin as freeze, but maybe you can do something to identify the deepfreeze better :O Good job!

[Chairn]

You could make stars that pop out from deep frozen tees with a different color such as red ?

[Frrrrr :3]

Wowow. U da rock mr.HMH!

IMHO:
1. Freeze/Deepfreeze indicator should be placed at same position under the weapons.
2. Hud speedometer (vertical/horizontal) / Hud accelerometer (mb only horizontal / but vertical useful too, cuz 2x/3x/4x downfall rocket jumps) / netgraph packet loss / ping / indicator of ground adhesion / afterhook strong-weak radar - at bottom of the screen.

<3 to ur work.

[Ryozuki]

I think, that for ddrace you don't need a speedometer.

Also dtrong weak radar, dunno whats your idea, could you specify a bit?

[kamillentee]

I agree with the weak radar. After I understood what weak/strong means I had problems at first to see if i got strong or weak. But now I can see in the first moment of a teeworlds video if somebody got strong/weak. And im mostly right. IMHO no need for a radar.

As long as its optional its good.

[hi_leute_gll]

Also the strong/weak-topic is rather a thing for experienced players (Brutal maps, speedrunning, ...). And these people should have enough of that experience to detect strong/weak theirself.