Greetings (and happy holidays),
I’ve been tinkering with UE for a short while and thought I’d share some code I’ve been working on to make dynamic HUDS a little easier to manage - I call it ‘HotHUD’, and you can get the code off my GitHub at https://github.com/NeTTwerk/HotHUD.
I’ll be updating the code regularily as my requirements evolve (and as good graphics assets for window chrome become available), and welcome constructive feedback.
The (large) screenshot below is of a construction script of a BP derived from a HotHUD which creates 3 backpacks with a few items in the first two which can be dragged and dropped
by the player (Dropping isn’t actually done yet - probably finish it up tomorrow).
Link to a short video of the thing as it works today: HotHud ExampleVideo WorkInProgress Rev1 - YouTube
And finally a snippet of the C++ header file which gives a little more juice:
- Thanks for checking out HotHud, a window manager for the UE 4.6 HUD. With HotHud,
- you can easily create complex user-interfaces via blueprints at runtime with all
- of the window manager complexity taken care of for you. I developed (and am
- continuing to develop) HotHud mainly as a way of exploring UE and well… because I
- needed a good HUD for my project :).
- Some of HotHuds notable features include:
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- Dynamic player movable windows with title-bars, borders…
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- Single / Multi-line player editable text-boxes.
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- TileGrid controls for displaying lists of items which can be dragged & dropped
- by the player.
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- Easy(?) to deal with co-ordinate system (controls are relative to their parent).
- List of things I’m working on and hoping to get done soon:
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- Smart automatic scroll-bars.
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- More controls
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- Texture support for window chrome.
- CAVEATS / LIMITATIONS / BUGS:
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- The UE object model is pretty new to me, so I’m likely not interfacing with the
- engine in ‘the best’ way, but with tinkering comes wisdom so I have no doubt it
- will improve over time. Constructive feedback and suggestions as to better
- use the object model is appreciated.
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- Textures are not yet supported for window chrome. This will be changed once
- i have some good textures to use - as it turns out I suck at drawing
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- Editable text boxes do not work yet.
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- TextBoxes do not scroll properly yet.
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- There are lots of internal code cleanups needed - this is very much a work in
- progress :).
Best,
-NeTT
