It can be safely said that we don’t want to have to author exact pixel coordinates for each and every HUD bitmap in each resolution. Although some visuals are shown in examples, they are placeholder only until we have nailed down the feature list. In cases where the feature needs to be fully understood, a link to the appropriate spec is referenced.

This document does not go into detail about Campaign or Multiplayer features, just how the HUD interacts with them.

While this document does cover all the features we have planned for the Halo 3 HUD, some visuals are not in their final form.

The goal of this document is also to give the developers documentation that they can refer to when building the features for the HUD.

The goal of this document is to outline the plan for HUD functionality, design and appearance.

The HUD acts as the player’s dashboard indicating inventory status and any immediate influencing factors nearby. The goal for the HUD is to provide players feedback about their current situation. These use relative target URLs, so as long as you are viewing this document from its depot location and you have latest, the links should work. To further illustrate behaviors, some features have an associated reference video with them. main/ design/Multiplayer/Drafts/HUD - Messaging.doc A messaging spec is owned by the multiplayer team and outlines messaging behavior:Ī. main/design/Multiplayer/ingame/Dead Cam.docĢ.

main/design/Multiplayer/ingame/Voluntary Respawning.docī. The respawning and camera switching behaviors are outlined in the following multiplayer documents.

This document covers the core following as relates to the HUD:ġ. The HUD will be will be available to players in both campaign and multiplayer modes.

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