[4.5.9] Hud from "HUD & Boxes" not showing up

[Brossentia]

Hello! I likely missed something in the tutorials; right now, I'm creating a HUD for my game, but it's not showing up. Instead, it's displaying the HUD that was used for the metroidvania tutorial (displaying health and ammo).

Is there a way to deactivate the tutorial-style HUD and use the one from "HUD & Boxes"?

Thanks for the help! Things are coming along well; hoping to have a demo out in June.

 

[dale_coop]

In NESmaker 4.5, all modules with scrolling don’t use the tile-based HUD, but a sprite-based HUD drawn via script. You’ll need to adapt that script to your needs, as explained in the tutorials.

 

[dale_coop]

Some members tried to implement the tile-based HUD for scrolling modules, here's the topic:

[SOLVED][4.5.9] Tile-based HUD in scrolling module almost working!

So I have been searching all over the forums & discord and have pieced together an ALMOST working tile-based background HUD for the scrolling module! I think I just need some help with updating the "scrolling loading seam" to ignore the HUD tiles at the top of the screen. Here's how to set it...

www.nesmakers.com

 

[Brossentia]

Thank you for the info, dale! The reason I ask is because with a side-scrolling platformer, we're trying to crank up the speed as much as possible. Having a mostly static HUD about 3 tiles high frees up a lot of time for updating background tiles. Of course, that doesn't account for updating score/health/etc., so it could leave me with the same issue.

I'll check out what some of the people have been working on. Again, thanks!

EDIT: Currently, I just have black for all the top 3 tiles. This speeds up loading enough since the system doesn't need to update those tiles. Doesn't look fancy, though, so I'm looking into options.

 

[dale_coop]

Thank you for the info, dale! The reason I ask is because with a side-scrolling platformer, we're trying to crank up the speed as much as possible. Having a mostly static HUD about 3 tiles high frees up a lot of time for updating background tiles. Of course, that doesn't account for updating score/health/etc., so it could leave me with the same issue.

I'll check out what some of the people have been working on. Again, thanks!

EDIT: Currently, I just have black for all the top 3 tiles. This speeds up loading enough since the system doesn't need to update those tiles. Doesn't look fancy, though, so I'm looking into options.

but the tile based hud have been removed on the scrolling modules because it was extremely laggy. Because it uses a sprite0 technics to split the screen and that uses a lot of CPU.
so, if you want to reduce the slowdown, you definitely don't want to use a tile based hud... but will have to keep using the sprite based one.

 

[Brossentia]

but the tile based hud have been removed on the scrolling modules because it was extremely laggy. Because it uses a sprite0 technics to split the screen and that uses a lot of CPU.
so, if you want to reduce the slowdown, you definitely don't want to use a tile based hud... but will have to keep using the sprite based one.

That makes sense, though I wonder why that's the case. Many older NES games like Mario 3 and Darkman have static HUDs, and I believe those help it so the game can scroll as fast as it does - it's fewer tiles to update per frame. If there's a way to make a HUD that updates similar to those where they update during background updates, we'd be in business here.

Either way, I'll play with options to see what feels best. Depending on time, I may look into ways to make a static HUD work efficiently enough for a platformer.