Do you wish that the HUD didn't take up as much space as it does currently? Have you ever hoped for a publicly available HUD so you can save time not making one yourself? Have you ever wished that this Super Mario World patch feature was in SMBX?
Well, today's your day! I have made a minimalistic HUD with customizable features, available for you to use in whatever project you'd like (as long as you give proper credit).
In the spoiler below, you can find the explanation for every setting currently available with the HUD.
hudBarSet
Setting this to 1 will give you a solid black bar for all the HUD elements to go on. Setting this to 2 will give you a slightly transparent bar, so players can still see slightly behind it.
Defaults to 1.
dragonAltStyle
If set to 2 and you're using the solid black bar style for the HUD, this will give the uncollected Star Coins graphics an alternative white style.
Defaults to 1.
dragonExtra
If set to 2, Star Coin graphics will be spaced out more. Looks nice if you have 3 per level.
Defaults to 1.
starCounterSet
When set to 2, it hides the star counter from the HUD.
Defaults to 1.
timeCounterSet
When set to 2, it hides the SMBX timer from the HUD.
Defaults to 2.
timeAltStyle
When set to 2, the timer graphic is slightly altered to have a green outline instead of a black one. Useful if you want it to stick out more on a solid black bar.
Defaults to 1.
livesAltStyle
When set to 2, the lives counter is disabled and is replaced with a functioning death counter. Good for episodes that find lives outdated. Attention! You'll need to make it so lives don't go down in your episode if you enable this feature, otherwise the player can still game over. If you don't know how, insert the code below into your episode's luna.lua file.
Version 1.1 has been released! This update adds a functional death counter you can toggle on & off within the settings. If there's any issues with it, please let me know ASAP. It took a bit to separate the death counter code from my Nuclear Fusion project & the .lua file now distributed is basically just a gutted version of the one included in Nuclear Fusion.
Heart support for Toad & Peach should be coming soon-ish, if I can figure it out! Sorry it hasn't been implemented yet. I'm trying my best...
Is it possible to put this at the bottom of the screen instead of the top?
It's possible, but you'll have to edit the code yourself!
If there's enough demand for it, I'll add a setting that moves everything to the bottom (but it'd be a lot of work)!
If you really want it on the bottom of the screen instead of the top, I can make a hardcoded version for you. Just contact me on Discord in the SMBX server.
This is great! I've been looking for a minimalist HUD look and don't really have the skill to program it myself. I believe I'll feature this in my episode & credit you! One question I didn't see mentioned above can the score display be turned off?
This is great! I've been looking for a minimalist HUD look and don't really have the skill to program it myself. I believe I'll feature this in my episode & credit you! One question I didn't see mentioned above can the score display be turned off?
Not to my knowledge, but it should be easy enough to edit the code in order to disable the score display.
! Dang it.
