HUD stuff

Is there a way to make the HUD have its own pallet instead of using the 4th one or do i have to dedicate the 4th pallet for the HUD?
Also is there a way to make the HUD background transparent like in lets say mario where you have all the text and numbers rendered on top of the game?
 

drexegar

Member
The HUD always has a dedicated pallete, like some other games, if your good with colors you can makea pallete that you will mostly in every screen and use that for a pallete and HUD, JAckie Chan action kung fu has done this with it bright red, white, brown, black HUD and used that pallete for mostly bright red things like chinese pillars and what not.
Or make your HUD one color only then it wont get too messed up in colors when you use the extra two colors for backgrounds.

Mario HUD is not transparent, it just uses the same background color as the sky. If you want to make it a transparent look, then it best to always use the universal transparent color as your main background color for the sky or wall, that way your HUD will always look transparent.
 
But than how do other games do transparent HUDs too like shatterhand or shadow of the ninja, health bars and stuff are rendered right on top of the action.
 

chronosv2

New member
Both of those games are using Sprite HUDs. They're great until you have to start dealing with too many sprites on a given scanline.
So as above, you could disable the HUD code and do your own sprite HUD in predraw, but that takes up a sprite palette and sprites-per-scanline.
 
Top Bottom