Wepons and my HUD... HELP!!!!

[Boricua_33015]

Hey, sup people, man it feels good to post again in PUF! I havent posted anything for like months! Anyways, I need some help with UT. I think Ive posted about this b4 but I nevwer got any real help. I have a prollem with my weapons going over my HUD. But this only happens with big weapons.... like th redeemer. Whenever I select the redeemer, the weapon display in front of me goes over my HUD. I wish I can put a pic but honestly, I just to lazy to make a webpage just to post a pic here in PUF. So, anyways, please help... anyone who helps me will 0wn me!!!

o, and here are my current specs: Athlon 700(non-tbird) 128megs of SDRAM, and ATI Radeon 64meg DDR.

 

[rhakka]

it's all about hidden weapons. give it a shot

 

[Boricua_33015]

man, then how am I wupposed to know what weapon Im using??

 

[ION_Ace]

have the hud display weapons with numbers etc
and learn the sounds of the weapons

 

[rhakka]

keybind your favorite weapons and customize the weapon rankings too. only takes a week or so to get used to it

 

[R.Flagg]

Don't know the answer to your original question, sorry.

But if you ask me, ditching the weapon display thing is alot better than ditching the weapon itself. Not seeing my weapon takes away from the 'feel' of the game IMO.

I got rid of that annoying chat box and weapon display thing though the day I installed UT. They are not needed. As well as shrinking the HUD and status size WAY down.

And of course you can still bind keys to weapons.

Try it out. You can see alot more of the game that way. And your weapon.

 

[iolair]

Check your FOV (field of view) setting, if this is high then weapons take up a lot more screen space.... to set it back to default open the console (press ~) and type "FOV 90".

The 'deemer takes up a helluva lot of screen space when you've got it active anyway ... only way round that is to have weapons hidden....

Hey anyone, is there a console command for Weapons Hidden / Shown? Maybe if we combined it into the select weapon keys you could have shown for certain weapons and not shown for others..... (of course even then it would only work if you selected the weapon via your key rather than it being selected when you pick it up or run out of ammo on another).

 

[Boricua_33015]

Im talking about that it goes over my UD, like my ammo count and all that stuff. It also happens in other mods that have big weapons.... like Unreal Fortress, when I use the chaingun for the heavygunner, that gun goes over my HUD. And Flagg, yeah, I turn off weapon display, but its the ammo count that I wanna see. It sux that when ur a heavy guner in UnF, and u don't know ur ammo count cuz a freakin graphical glitch makes the gun appear in front o my damn HUD!!!

 

[DeeperShade]

I noticed a huge improvement in my aim when I took weapon hand to hidden. It makes you aim with the crosshair and not the barrel

 

[hal]

Hidden weapons really improves your aim as the weapon angle is a little deceiving. It does take some getting used to. Heck, you'll even get a tiny bump in frames per second!

 

[lunchblaze]

maybe a bigger monitor would help?



out.

 

[Boricua_33015]

I dont think it has anything to do with my monitor. Its a graphical glitch. Maybe its a glitch with UT, or maybe its my vid card... I dunno! Does anyone else have this prollem? And guys, I put the weapon as hidden, and it felt wierd, I prolly just need to get used to it.

and BTW, u all 0wn me (not literally)

 

[iridium]

i have that problem too. it is just the coding of the display of the weapon, the hud is drawn before the weapon, so the weapon comes on top of it.

 

[lunchblaze]

lol !

dude,
i'm kidding!



out.

 

[iolair]

I guess you've already updated to latest patch and graphics card drivers? Hey, could you post a screenshot Boricua_33015?

 

[Boricua_33015]

of course I have the latest patc and drivers for my vid card. As for getting a pic.... I dont have my own website so I can upload a pic there, but maybe if I attatch a file, maybe it would work......

Welp, I got it, sorry for the low-res pic guys, but I dunno how to convert it to jpg.

 

[Boricua_33015]

heres another one showing that the weapon not only goes in front my HUD, but also my menu HUD.

 

[Big giB]

Guess who else is back Anyway, lookin at the pic, I am stumped :\ Maybe, just MAYBE it has something to do with the FOV. I have mine set at 100. Well, I set it back to 90 when I noticed a decrease in framerate.

 

[iolair]

Hmmmm

That's pretty ugly

The only other thing I can think that might be worth trying is changing your graphics rendering mode ... ie. if you're using OpenGL try Direct3D or vice versa....

If you really can't get round it playing weapon-hidden really is worth a try; takes a little getting used to but the HUD still shows you your ammo and selected weapon.....

 

[Boricua_33015]

i use d3d, maybe its my vid card.... i gotta go and complain to ATI about this...