HUD Border Design

SeaFoodAndButter

New member
So, I am using the Adventure Module right now and the HUD text and border graphics are really basic. I want to change the numbers/letters and that is easy enough to figure out. But I also want to change the borders.

Well, I figured out which tiles are the corners of the HUD and messed around and made corner designs. But I can't figure out which tiles are the vertical and horizontal borders.
I tried to fill in the blank boxes of the HUD asset with different colors and pixels to see if I could locate which boxes are being used for the borders, but I can't figure this one out.

Here are the edges I made: Border.PNG

What I want:
Pharmakos HUD1.PNG PharmakosHUD2.PNG
 

MistSonata

Moderator
Might be a dumb question, but have you tried setting these values in the "Tiles" tab in the Hud and Boxes section?

eeb018494970a0a5c4a550afe6e86f88.png
 

SeaFoodAndButter

New member
MistSonata said:
Might be a dumb question, but have you tried setting these values in the "Tiles" tab in the Hud and Boxes section?

eeb018494970a0a5c4a550afe6e86f88.png

OMG man! Thank you so much. I just needed someone to point me in the direction of the coordinates. I soon realized that the generic hud tile set Joe gave us used a lot of redundant tiles (probably to save space). I'm a rookie so it took me some time to track down the coordinates and change them; plus I realized I needed to add 2 tiles. So, I got rid of 2 of the arrows (I'm not going to use them anyway). Anyways, your pic and question revealed enough info for me, a super rook, to fight through and finally make what I needed. I know it is chicken scratch to most, but I actually thought through and made my HUD border pretty close to what I wanted because of the pic you sent me!

Now, I need to make the letters and numbers smaller (I do not like the big ones Joe gave us with the Adventure Module).

Thank you SO MUCH MISTA SONATA!
And if you get a chance, look at my vid of my start screen and let me know if you know of any text like my title name "The Curse of Pharmakos" that I can use in my HUD. TY friend!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bViDS-6RyVo&lc=z234cv2x3wecjbf2pacdp434vjyiwywtxnuoazcebghw03c010c
HUDBORDERGREEK.PNG
 

MistSonata

Moderator
SeaFoodAndButter said:
And if you get a chance, look at my vid of my start screen and let me know if you know of any text like my title name "The Curse of Pharmakos" that I can use in my HUD. TY friend!

Glad to hear you got it working! Unfortunately I don't know of any fonts that look like the one on your title screen, but getting a text like that that's readable at 8x8 pixels per character is going to be difficult on its own (not even taking into account the visual quirks that playing the game on a standard definition tv would have).

However, there's already a bunch of fonts posted on WolfMerrik's NESmakerfiles website, some of which I made myself, feel free to check those out!
 

Kasumi

New member
8x8 fonts: http://kofler.dot.at/c64/ (Under character sets browse the 23[!] pages.)
More 8x8 fonts: https://web.archive.org/web/20151213061805/http://orangetide.com/nesdev/gamefonts/
Even more 8x8 fonts: http://pics.pineight.com/nes/8x8s.png
I don't know of a specific one that's close to your title screen, but if one's not among these it may just be hard to swing.
 

SeaFoodAndButter

New member
Kasumi said:
8x8 fonts: http://kofler.dot.at/c64/ (Under character sets browse the 23[!] pages.)
More 8x8 fonts: https://web.archive.org/web/20151213061805/http://orangetide.com/nesdev/gamefonts/
Even more 8x8 fonts: http://pics.pineight.com/nes/8x8s.png
I don't know of a specific one that's close to your title screen, but if one's not among these it may just be hard to swing.

Thanks Kasumi!
 
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