Paint gun hud ideas

[JJL772]

We'll be designing a brand new paint gun hud (the old one doesn't even work), so let's get some ideas brainstormed! None of these images are "final"- these are very rough drafts made in paint/inkscape.

Relevant issue and previous discussion here: #705

Paint select HUD

For the paint selector HUD element, we have the following concepts:

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Paint gun crosshair

For the paint gun's crosshair (which should definitely be unique from the portal gun's) we have the following concepts:

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[Critfish]

How about a "raindrop" shape?
edit: made it a bit better

[Konclan]

Paint Selection Radial Menu

Here's my contribution:
Its designed like the coop ping menu but instead of the middle being cancel it defaults to swap to next paint. You can move your mouse to either select a new paint or select the paint you already have to cancel. This menu merges two functions of cycling paint and quick selection. The radial menu will expand and contract based on what paints the player has available.

Here is a proof of concept I made in paint. Its not great visually but hopefully it demonstrates my idea clearly.

[vrad-exe]

The radial menu is a neat idea, it solves the problem of how to conveniently select between a possibly infinite number of custom gels. We're still not sure about the crosshair though.

[ooooggll]

I feel like just having the portal gun crosshair for the paint gun would be good enough. Obviously instead of blue and orange it would be whatever gel you currently have selected. Or instead of having it "tilted" like the portal gun crosshair you could have it evenly half and half.

Something like this for that second concept. But honestly I think the default portalgun crosshair would work fine.
Obviously it doesn't look very neat in the picture but it's just a basic idea.

[ooooggll]

Also I don't know what right clicking with the paint gun currently does, if anything, but I have a couple ideas for what the right click function could be:

1. Shoots water (to cleanse gels)
2. Opens the radial gel selection menu (that Konclan suggested)
3. When selecting gels, you can choose a primary and secondary gel, so if you know you'll be using repulsion and adhesion for instance, you don't have to switch as often. So right clicking would shoot the "secondary" gel.

I think the option that probably makes the most sense would be for it to open the radial menu but idk. I think all would be cool, or if anyone else has any ideas I'd like to hear them.

[FrozenDragon0]

Right clicking just shoots out cleansing gel at the moment.

[ooooggll]

Well cool, that makes sense I suppose.

[slambo311]

With all these ideas, why not just have a setting to switch between them?

[AWildErin]

As somebody who would probably end up having to implement this, I’d rather just have one, not all.

[craftablescience]

Seconded, if you want to use a different one in a mod you can edit the panorama files

[vrad-exe]

Yep, the nice thing about Panorama is that it's totally customizable, you can add any of these in place of the default one or make something entirely new.