How do I raise my weapon viewmodel?

[Lava Grunt]

Hello, I'm playing Quake HD (which uses Darkplaces) and was wondering how I can raise my weapon viewmodel so that when I have the full HUD going (status bar + inventory bar) I can see the full gun like I would if I had no HUD on the screen (I think it's viewsize 120?)

When I play Quakespasm, it handles this automatically; having a fully opaque HUD makes the viewmodel raise for the status bar, and also the status bar + inventory bar, whereas playing with a slightly translucent or completely invisible HUD background keeps it on the bottom of the screen as if you were playing with no HUD at all.

Using sbar_alpha_bg doesn't make it raise in darkplaces. Any help would be appreciated, thank you!

[Mindf!3ldzX]

Try these

viewsize 100 (default)
hud_weapons_offset





I have also relayed this Question to LH, you'll get served answers sooner rather than later. heh!

This hud mostly worked as intended but was not user friendly, so I revisited it once more.
In the end this unspectacular update costed me as much work as everything I've done with it before.
It should be at least more friendly to both: users and someone who will eventually try to modify it further now.
Old nahuel's sources included, unused stuff from them may be useful to someone.

Changes:
Old and new customizations available now via autoexec.cfg and ingame sbar/ibar settings are stored between levels and game sessions.
Smiths's layout now looks correct with larger then QRP icons. Restored full functionality of dark places hud, DP scorebar.

@Nahuel: You could add this link and feature description in the opening post of this thread. Otherwise it get burried soon.

HUD_v4.5_Nahuel_Dresk_Smith.zip

Hud displays map name after level load. Can display custom inventory layout, compass.
Optionally can intruduce water fog. ( not compatible with world fog via .ent files )

Ingame settings:

keys"+""-" full classic hud - custom inventory layout - status bar only - hide hud
key "v" show/hide inventory
Above settings will be stored between levels and game sessions.

key "c" show/hide compass
key "tab" hold to show scorebar

autoexec.cfg settings:

set hud_ibar 0 - custom inventory layout won't be available
set hud_ibar 1 - Smith's custom inventory layout == default
set hud_ibar 2 - Nahuels's custom inventory layout

set hud_weapons_offset - move up/down custom inventory weapons and ammocounts ( value +/- 40 is about 10% screen height up/down ), 0 == default

set hud_compass 0/1 - turn on/off compass on level load, 0 == default
set waterfog 0/1 - turn on/off waterfog, 0 == default

console:
sbar_alpha_bg, sbar_alpha_fg DP cvars will now affect all hud graphics

transparent sbar/ibar texture - if you want fully transparent sbar background, replace ibar/sbar textures with included transparent textures ( from QRP: qrp.quakeone.com )
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^ That may or may not has shit to do with what you're needing, but it's atleast something to dig through til LH/some all knowing ventures through here.

Best of luck,
Mindz

[powerzord]

Just use pro quake

[LordHavoc]

The darkplaces behavior of a fullsize viewport with the hud overlaid on it is pretty fundamentally hardwired in the engine.

I never liked the crosshair being moved up the screen based on viewsize, I believe it should always be in the dead center of the screen, so this was the result, and I didn't keep the old code for shrinking it.

You can see the whole gun with a value like viewsize 90 but that will put black borders around the reduced size.

If your goal is just to see the gun, you could play with a higher fov value.

[Mindf!3ldzX]

Just use pro quake

You're about as useful as a poop flavored icecream, you would defeat the entire purpose of even existing. Buns?

Thanks for the effort though, ready to play CTF?

[Mindf!3ldzX]

The darkplaces behavior of a fullsize viewport with the hud overlaid on it is pretty fundamentally hardwired in the engine.

I never liked the crosshair being moved up the screen based on viewsize, I believe it should always be in the dead center of the screen, so this was the result, and I didn't keep the old code for shrinking it.

You can see the whole gun with a value like viewsize 90 but that will put black borders around the reduced size.

If your goal is just to see the gun, you could play with a higher fov value.

I personally think that the transparent HUD / seeing entire weapon model through the HUD, is sweet! I recommend this, as its very aesthetically pleasing IMO.

[Lava Grunt]

The darkplaces behavior of a fullsize viewport with the hud overlaid on it is pretty fundamentally hardwired in the engine.

I never liked the crosshair being moved up the screen based on viewsize, I believe it should always be in the dead center of the screen, so this was the result, and I didn't keep the old code for shrinking it.

You can see the whole gun with a value like viewsize 90 but that will put black borders around the reduced size.

If your goal is just to see the gun, you could play with a higher fov value.

Damn. That sucks; not a fan of fov.

But on the bright side, I used weapon offset to align the compact custom inventory along with bg on 0 and it looks great.

[Seven]

Some engines like DirectQ or Qrack (I am not sure which one) support cvars to move the view_model.
That is a cool feature. DP doesnt support it as far as I know.

[Mindf!3ldzX]

Some engines like DirectQ or Qrack (I am not sure which one) support cvars to move the view_model.
That is a cool feature. DP doesnt support it as far as I know.

DirectQ confirmed

Under User interface options, Classic HUD style !

[Seven]

Hello Mindf!3ldzX,

It is good to have you here (while MH is temporary away).
I also was reading in other threads, that you give valuable tips and support for DirectQ questions.
Hoping that MH will be come over the issues he has at the moment and be back soon.

[Lava Grunt]

So I played with DirectQ (which for some reason wouldn't play music...kind of annoying) and I see the difference. Darkplaces only has the overlay hud, which doesn't raise the weapon. It would be cool to see the classic hud make it into an update in the future.