jDUI and GZDoom

NightFright · Post by **NightFright** » Fri May 09, 2008 9:45

I've been trying to get jDUI loading in GZDoom (v1.1.2 r101) but it is only working partially. I am putting most of the UI graphics into the "hires" dir, except for menu screens (like TITLEPIC or INTERPIC) which won't get stretched if I don't put them into the "graphics" folder instead.

What's working:
- skull menu selector
- "NIGHTMARE!" difficulty selection pic
- ammo counter font (status bar right)
- status bar
- replacements for skull keys and keycards for HUD
- M_DOOM menu title
- Doomguy face
- Ep1-3 intermission maps ("You are here") without the patches

What's not working:
- "arms" replacement patch for status bar (overlaps "frags" section); this is shown too far on the left
- any health, ammo or armor counter font (red); too much left also
- patches for Ep1-3 intermission maps (buildings, blood splat, "You are here" sign)

The status bar is basically only usable if you use the ammo counter font only, nothing else. As soon as you put the highres status bar into the "hires" folder, things will get messed up.

Any idea how to fix this? What's really strange is that the UIs for Heretic and Hexen work absolutely fine, practically no issues there. Is the Doom HUD so different compared to those?

Post by **wildweasel** » Sat May 10, 2008 6:21

You'll need to use a HIRESTEX lump to define each new graphic as a replacement for an existing one. For example:

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remap HINMARE M_NTMARE

That will replace the original M_NTMARE lump with the high-res HINMARE graphic, scaling HINMARE down to the exact dimensions of M_NTMARE.

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Sat May 10, 2008 18:31

The status bar can not be replaced by hires textures. Sorry.
This is because it is composited internally from different patches and all this is done in low res.

Post by **wildweasel** » Sat May 10, 2008 20:50

Now wait, wasn't Blzut3 working on making HIRESTEX work with the status bar (or at the very least, SBARINFO)?

Post by **Remmirath** » Sat May 10, 2008 21:32

I was working on The Demon Slayer(my mod), and i scaled a 800x80 statusbar to fit the 320x32 dimensions with HIRES...

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Sat May 10, 2008 22:15

wildweasel wrote:Now wait, wasn't Blzut3 working on making HIRESTEX work with the status bar (or at the very least, SBARINFO)?

SBARINFO can do it, I think. But the normal Doom status bar is a special case.

NightFright · Post by **NightFright** » Sun May 11, 2008 0:16

As I said, it's working partially. If you only use the STGNUM1-9, STKEYS1-5 and STYSNUM1-9 without the highres statusbar itself, those will be aligned just fine ingame. As soon as you add the bar, the problems start because the "ARMS" replacement patch and the counters get messed up, and it will only get worse if you try to replace them with highres stuff as well.

Doom menu fonts would probably work, too but they seem to be handled differently in GZDoom than in Doomsday. You would need a highres versions of each menu entry (like for M_NTMARE) which don't exist anywhere.

The only thing that isn't working in the Heretic/Hexen games is the right part of the Heretic HUD head (RTFCTOP) which is floating above the statusbar. Everything else is looking top-notch with highres stuff.