GTA 5 HUD

[LEU 153]

I tried..

[GunSmith 2452]

here's a modified version, i tweaked the map a little...

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and here's the character wheel...

420 rounds in reserve. Nice.

[TreeFitty 2631]

Added three quotes from CVG and the two Edge previews. Apparently my mock-up was more correct with the bars under the radar:

While swimming, sharks are marked on the radar, which has also been overhauled. The view of the land is flatter, much closer to an in-car GPS system, with three coloured meters beneath for health, body armour, and special moves

[Ku Zi Mu 1194]

What do they mean by "flatter"? I mean how flat can you get?

[Brian 972]

I think mine came out pretty nice.

Yes Bones yours had some inspiration on mine.

[GunSmith 2452]

Oh, man...That's the screen I was working on, you twat. Ah, well. You snooze, you lose.

[CaPn bOnEs 8527]

revised...

re-did the status bar locations... the articles said it was a rectangle, but they didn't say if it was vertical or not ... i also changed the colors of the stars to something plain, they seemed too distracting to me...

(EDIT: removed the location and car model... decided to put it in the character scene since it usually disappears eventually anyways)

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with the character bubble, i added a darkened overlay of the action in the background while keeping the HUDs and words in front... i also added the time and $$$ in the right corner for when the action is paused...

[TreeFitty 2631]

What do they mean by "flatter"? I mean how flat can you get?

They mean it's as if you are looking at a 3D image with perspective, not a perfect top-down image.

Here, like this:

[CaPn bOnEs 8527]

maybe someday i'll edit the map, but i put a lot of time into the one i currently used so it'll have to be another day...

[Ku Zi Mu 1194]

What do they mean by "flatter"? I mean how flat can you get?

They mean it's as if you are looking at a 3D image with perspective, not a perfect top-down image.

Here, like this:

Yeah that's what I thought but "flatter" wasn't exactly the best choice of words.

Hehe "derp"...

[GunSmith 2452]

That's the opposite of "flatter". Whoever wrote that article is a fool.

[TreeFitty 2631]

Not really. When something gets flatter it gets squished smaller until it's flat like a pancake.

To continue the table top images,

[Qdeathstar 1763]

Mmm, pancakes.

[Massacre 7646]

I think I might try my hand at this, for once.

Maybe after a little more GTA IV...

[Imanaya 5]

where else could i have found a stool in a gta hud discussion...

[GunSmith 2452]

Not really. When something gets flatter it gets squished smaller until it's flat like a pancake.

Sure. The current radars are as flat as possible. It's a perfect top-down view; what they're describing isn't quite flat.

[Massacre 7646]

Working on my HUD, can't seem to find a font that looks right for the text. Suggestions?

[GunSmith 2452]

I downloaded a font called United States. It's similar to the font used on American banknotes, but it's solid and bold. I recommend it.

[Massacre 7646]

Rough version. It's shit, but I've made it very clear by now that I'm no good with photoshop. It's more of a trial run than anything.

I kept it along the lines of IV's HUD, but I plan to make the upper right corner more compact and minimalistic in future attempts. The radar is blank, partially because it's blank in IV when you're inside, but mostly because I know my attempt at the new radar is going to be a miserable failure. I also threw in a shitty version of the sound cone, because no one else has yet. Personally, I think the cone would look better as a vertical bar attached to the side of the radar, but the real one will look better than mine, obviously. Also, I highly doubt it'll be there all the time. It'll probably only be there when you're crouching.

[GunSmith 2452]

Nice work, Mass. I'm curious as to how you created the outlines for the radar and sound cone. Like you, I'm not familiar with Photoshop, so I could use all the guidance I can get.

[iBeNiko 183]

Rough version. It's shit, but I've made it very clear by now that I'm no good with photoshop. It's more of a trial run than anything.

I kept it along the lines of IV's HUD, but I plan to make the upper right corner more compact and minimalistic in future attempts. The radar is blank, partially because it's blank in IV when you're inside, but mostly because I know my attempt at the new radar is going to be a miserable failure. I also threw in a shitty version of the sound cone, because no one else has yet. Personally, I think the cone would look better as a vertical bar attached to the side of the radar, but the real one will look better than mine, obviously. Also, I highly doubt it'll be there all the time. It'll probably only be there when you're crouching.

i love how the ballas facial expression is like "aww hell naw" lol

[Massacre 7646]

Nice work, Mass. I'm curious as to how you created the outlines for the radar and sound cone. Like you, I'm not familiar with Photoshop, so I could use all the guidance I can get.

I do most of my work with a simple photo editing program rather than actual photoshop, because I don't do particularly complicated work, and it gives me simple options. It has shapes with outlines, and I just made thin rectangles and changed the fill color. For the bars that weren't full, I copy/pasted another bar on top, re-sized the bar, and made the bar behind it dark grey. The empty space in the radar and sound cone had a black fill that I set to 50% transparency, and the full HUD has an overall transparency of 25%. I may increase that a little as I work on it more.

I'm also considering a slightly more pastel color palette.

[GunSmith 2452]

Thanks for the tips. I'll be putting them to good use in my mock-up and crediting my masked nigga accordingly.

[TreeFitty 2631]

I put the sound cone spewing from the protag marker in the radar.

[CaPn bOnEs 8527]

my map has a cone too... it's the red-to-blue look on the police-aware bubble, signaling where the most noise is coming from and in this case, it's from the gunshots and police chase...