Managing multiple HUDs - what's best practice?

Development Programming & Scripting UI
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Hi,

I need to create a HUD for my game (health bar, minimap, equipped item etc.) that displays over the gameplay. I also need to create a Menu HUD that has Inventory, Crafting, Settings etc. that can be accessed on key press (i.e. Escape key).

Is it better to create a master HUD for this and just show and hide the respective elements depending on whether the game is running or the menu/pause button has been pressed, or should I break them into 2 separate HUDs? I feel the latter is cleaner, but wondering what best practices are for this.

Thanks!

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You can add widgets you created to other widgets. For example, you could create separate widgets for HUD and Menu, then add them both to another master widget and show/hide them using a widget switcher for example.

Also, I would recommend looking into the Common UI Plugin, it has support for layering widgets and input and stuff.

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Thanks. Yeah, I’m actually redoing my HUDs with common UI for that reason. will look into the widget switcher. Thanks!