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Re: Why I don't like Halo 4's Campaign HUD *long*
Posted By: RC Master	Date: 6/15/12 10:59 a.m.
In Response To: Re: Why I don't like Halo 4's Campaign HUD *long* (bluerunner) : Here's my short and simple request: Make the reticle easier to see. : I really didn't care for Reach's thin, light blue reticle. It's especially : hard for me to see against the sky in Forge World. In the first Halo 4 : picture RC posted I can't see it at all. It's as bad as Reach's in the : second picture. : Well, ok, one more request, but this one isn't as criticle. Make the weapon : silhouette in the upper right corner more opaque and make the ammo count : brighter. Compare the 2nd picture RC posted to the Reach picture. In the : Halo 4 picture the weapon and ammo count fade into the sky. They stand out : much better in the Reach photo. I've wondered for several years whether having dynamically coloured HUDs (at least the outline of their elements) could help eliminate problems with visibility on the background without needing to make them opaque and adding dark borders. You could vary the colour of HUD elements dynamically from something like light-blue (e.g. Halo) to a darker colour (maybe even black) based on what was around it. Of course there is a performance implication there as you'd need to sample what the rendered colour nearby was before you could do the final pass on the HUD elements. It might be far to expensive to do it within the same frame, but if you did it on the previous frame and only updated it every few frames you might be able to get it down to something reasonable. Maybe in the future.

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Why I don't like Halo 4's Campaign HUD *long*	RC Master	6/15/12 9:22 a.m.
Re: Why I don't like Halo 4's Campaign HUD *long*	bluerunner	6/15/12 10:45 a.m.
Re: Why I don't like Halo 4's Campaign HUD *long*	RC Master	6/15/12 10:59 a.m.
Re: Why I don't like Halo 4's Campaign HUD *long*	SonGoharotto	6/15/12 12:21 p.m.
Re: Why I don't like Halo 4's Campaign HUD *long*	Gravemind	6/15/12 12:33 p.m.
Re: Why I don't like Halo 4's Campaign HUD *long*	RC Master	6/15/12 2:43 p.m.
Re: Why I don't like Halo 4's Campaign HUD *long*	Gravemind	6/15/12 5:38 p.m.
Thanks for the frontpage!	RC Master	6/15/12 4:55 p.m.
Re: Thanks for the frontpage!	PerseusSpartacus	6/15/12 6:09 p.m.
Re: Thanks for the frontpage!	Louis Wu	6/16/12 7:28 a.m.
Re: Why I don't like Halo 4's Campaign HUD *long*	sithhead	6/16/12 12:43 p.m.
Re: Why I don't like Halo 4's Campaign HUD *long*	General Vagueness	6/16/12 4:39 p.m.