I just watched a short in-game movie for "Republic Commando" I was most impressed with the HUD, which includes the helmet you are wearing.



I was wondering if it would be possible to add something similar to the marine viewpoint in NS. (so you are essentially looking through your visor)

Would you have to attatch it to the weapon origins to get it to work? or would it be possible to do by editing the HUD sprites?

The Project Timless mod has something similar to this with their Gasmasks.

Don't forget Metroid Prime.

should be very simple to do just make it part of the V_model it just wont show the hud

Meh, I dont ever read my hud in NS anyway, cept for health. So this is no problem! (for me)

If you changed around the positions of the HUD objects or maybe just got a whole new set of HUD sprites the HUD would still show up on the visor though.

Not with the HL engine but the v_models eh?

I don't see why not. I'm sure one of the forum's leet 3DS Max or MS3D haxor modellers could do it.

one thing i have noticed with all the v_models ingame is that they move in and out a little bit when you look up and down. if you look straight down your weapon will appear like you pulled it in a little bit, and if you look straight up it will look like your holding it further out. if you just attach the helmet model to the v_model it would definitely look weird when you looked up and down.

oh one thing i think might be possible (keep in mind i know nothing of sprites) would be perhaps making the crosshair big enough to cover the whole screen, and put kinda like transparent bluish visor lines. that might work. maybe.

Or some leet Photochop ppl could haxor the hud. That seems more plausible.

v_models: as has been mentioned, the model moves on-screen when the player walks ("view bob"). This can be turned off however, but he effect of a static weapon is not at all attractive.

crosshair sprite: the maximum size for sprites in HL is 256x256, so you're not going to get one that covers the entire screen, unfortunately.

hud sprites: First issue - it may be the case that the sprites are unable to use a solid render mode. Some mods are like that (CS for example). Second issue - the current HUD layout is not going to work with solid bits. It would require the devs to completely redesign the HUD.

no, what I meant was:

Problems with sprites while having that "hud" all over your screen

cl_bob 0 fixes this problem i believe.