Aligning weapon to edge of screen

NightFright

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#1 Posted 17 January 2018 - 07:45 AM

For a mod, I would need to align a hud weapon (in this case, a replacement for the Mighty Boot, tiles 2521/2522) to the edge of the right screen. This is supposed to be done because the weapon graphics are cut and I want to make them widescreen-friendly. Any fast coding solution for this would be appreciated.

Daedolon

Ancient Blood God

#2 Posted 17 January 2018 - 08:18 AM

You can get the aspect ratio from the constantly updated gamevars.

NightFright

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#3 Posted 17 January 2018 - 10:02 AM

That's great, but I am afraid it would need to be a bit more specific. It's not like I am doing con coding on a daily basis... :dukecigar:

Hendricks266

Weaponized Autism

#4 Posted 17 January 2018 - 10:26 AM

We currently don't have any way to request pinning an HUD sprite that the game does not already. You would have to take my weapons.con.sample and add orientation flag 512 to the draw calls for weapon 0.

Would it not be possible to post a request for widescreenification of the tile in question? It would be easier in the long run.

If not, we can look at adding an easy way somehow. The WEAPON*_FLAGS gamevars might be a good fit.

NightFright

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#5 Posted 17 January 2018 - 11:19 AM

Well, to be precise, it's the sword from "The Quest for Al-Qa'eda"/"The Quest for Hussein". Only the first tile (#2521, idle mode) is needed. I can post the tile here tomorrow if you guys cannot extract it by yourselves.

This post has been edited by NightFright: 17 January 2018 - 11:19 AM

Hendricks266

Weaponized Autism

#6 Posted 17 January 2018 - 02:03 PM

I've pinged Jimmy about it.

Daedolon

Ancient Blood God

#7 Posted 17 January 2018 - 03:11 PM

Can't believe those mods were made.

Jimmy

Let's go Brandon!

#8 Posted 17 January 2018 - 08:37 PM

Enjoy, fam. I didn't test it but that should be enough of a widescreen extension, if not let me know. I also edited out the Shadow Warrior gauntlets. It's not perfect but it's a Petrilla game so I don't care to work on this any further (unless it needs more extension.) These sprites would also work for Petrilla's Pillage & Plunder demo.

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NightFright

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#9 Posted 18 January 2018 - 02:23 AM

Excellent work! This is even better than a code-based solution. Thanks to Jimmy and Hendricks (the combination of these two nicks just sounds right)! ^^

This post has been edited by NightFright: 18 January 2018 - 02:24 AM