[HUD] Halo 2 HUD for Halo:CE

p0lar_bear · Post by **p0lar_bear** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 12:58 am

INFORMATION
This archive contains a set of tags that will change the default Halo Heads-Up Display (HUD) into a replica of Halo 2's SPARTAN-II HUD. These tags will only work with the Halo: Custom Edition game, and are not indended for Halo XBox, Halo PC, or Halo 2 (which would be rather pointless). Please note that this will only affect maps YOU create; the HUD on existing maps will remain unchanged.

This HUD is OPEN SOURCE. I have included my source image files so you may freely modify and learn from them. The .TIF files are files ready to be compiled by Tool into .bitmap tags, and the .PNG files are Macromedia Fireworks files. I have also included a .PSD file that makes making new weapon icons easier.

Changes:

* Halo 2 HUD Replica; tagged to not interfere with the stock tagset.
* Customized HUD item message strings.
* Flag cloth physics are less elastic; flag doesn't stretch out as far when moving quickly.
* New font for player list, game rules, and postgame carnage report.
* Flag makes pickup sound like in Halo 2.
* HUD counts flamethrower canisters instead of fuel units; to match this, the flamethrower wastes whatever rounds are left in the canister when reloaded. To counteract this, you may now carry 10 fuel canisters instead of 8.
* Flag and oddball removed from cheat weapon spawn.
* New scope zoom for the sniper.

SPECIAL THANKS

* LIGHTNING - A super-duper-special thanks to Lightning for getting me started on this project. Also thanks for modding Coagulation's lightmaps to make the Halo 2 HUD easier to trace and imitate.
* MASTERZ1337 - Thanks for seeing this project through to its initial "release" in CMT's campaign, as well as helping me understand how the various hud_interface tags worked.
* L33T - Thanks for offering some pointers on hud_interface modification.
* My testers, who were listed above, as well as:
o The CMT Team, all past and present members
o Timo
o M808B
o Storm
o My uncle

Also thanks to anyone that helped me with this; it's been a long time since I started this, and quite a few people had helped me out. I apologize if I forgot to list you.

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Before anyone asks, everything you see here is CUSTOM MADE. No content or tags were ripped from Halo 2.

Please, please, pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease read the enclosed readme.html before you do anything.

http://files.filefront.com/Halo_2_HUD_f ... einfo.html

If you would like to try out the HUD without making a whole new map for it, I modified Sidewinder to use it, for testing purposes.

http://files.filefront.com/HUDwinder/;6 ... einfo.html

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And now for some pics.

Timo12 · Post by **Timo12** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 12:58 am

Cool beans.

MereCatfish · Post by **MereCatfish** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 1:32 am

Cool beans.

CtrlAltDestroy · Post by **CtrlAltDestroy** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 7:32 am

Awesome sauce.

/nonconformist

TomClancey · Post by **TomClancey** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 7:59 am

1337 sauce.

=)

ZeroUltimateWarrior · Post by **ZeroUltimateWarrior** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 2:30 pm

anyway we can get the sexiness on PC and I mean your exact version? I admire the CE work done in this forum but I have no idea how to add it into the game with HEK ppl try to explain it to me on Xfire but iun understand HEK at all.

p0lar_bear · Post by **p0lar_bear** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 9:17 pm

Sorry. These tags will only compile into a Halo CE map cache file.

Greno · Post by **Greno** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 5:57 pm

i'd remove the health meter i know it's required to look at how much health you hav left but on halo 2 you dont hav a health meter and you health and shield recharge together.

Argetlam · Post by **Argetlam** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 6:13 pm

Nice bump.

darkmummy9 · Post by **darkmummy9** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 10:06 pm

wy cant microsoft even make a damn hud upgrade DAMN YOU MICROSOFT DAMN YOU

Titusz · Post by **Titusz** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 12:49 am

darkmummy9 wrote:wy cant microsoft even make a damn hud upgrade DAMN YOU MICROSOFT DAMN YOU

Because they kinda abandoned halo :0

OpsY · Post by **OpsY** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 7:03 am

Yeah, the cash now lies in ruining Halo 2 on xbox live so people don't use it and wait more eagerly for Halo 3. that way, M$ doesn't have to pay for people playing Halo 2 knowing there's not a dime to be made there any more and that the real cash comes in forcing people to use live on H2V and making people pay 60$ if they need vista tech support.

Source:
http://support.microsoft.com/oas/defaul ... rid=436975

p0lar_bear · Post by **p0lar_bear** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 9:52 pm

Greno wrote:i'd remove the health meter i know it's required to look at how much health you hav left but on halo 2 you dont hav a health meter and you health and shield recharge together.

But this isn't Halo 2. This is Halo 1. Health does not recharge with your shields. If you dislike it so much, you can always turn it off with a trainer or something.

0m3g4Muff1n987 · Post by **0m3g4Muff1n987** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 10:02 am

1337/woot/cool/awesome sauce/cool beans

Butt Cancer · Post by **Butt Cancer** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 7:03 pm

ladies and gentlemen, we have a new comic on the scene!

not funny, just ruins the topic....

anyways, very nice work, looks great

9.5/10

Andrew_b · Post by **Andrew_b** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 8:17 pm

I agree..this looks awesome.

Trustedspartan · Post by **Trustedspartan** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 11:31 pm

where is the tags folder it ain't anywhere in the halo directory

MasterNeoChief · Post by **MasterNeoChief** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 1:46 am

Do you have HEK installed? It's in the Halo Custom Edition Folder.

wanksta · Post by **wanksta** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 10:52 am

love it. this may gointo night shift. ive been looking too fix the hud up a bit. its kinda scattered.

9/10 + 1 for the sniper zoom that is awsome so 10/10