The AVHUD
Heads up displays are great huh? We all love them! Ok,
So you may have tried other gadgets out there... and seen that they all want you to do
crazy things like type extra long commands, remember weird chat channel
numbers or type some weird Greek name just to kill someone...!
"You have to be yanking my chain right?".
Well in a way, yes and
no! Some people like the ease of typing a quick command to do something
rather than clicking on things. Other people like the opposite, and would rather click an icon on a hud to do the same job. Fortunately
for AVpack users, you can do both. The AVpack AVHUD interface is possibly
the most user friendly and expandable HUD you will ever use. It is simple, intuitive
and tidy in operation. All the options are nicely spaced, and nothing is
squashed into a mock, fixed, CD player type window you may have seen on other devices.
Pictures say more than words, and at Space Bums we realized this before
creating the AVHUD. If you get tired of the AVHUD, you simply click the top left
gadget launcher dial icon, and any icons you have on display will zip
away out of sight. You can move buttons around or resize them using your edit window. Press the red record
button in the centre of the dial, and the AVHUD buttons will remember their positions for the next time they are displayed.
Your
AVHUD can show you lots of cool things too, like who is around you, sim
stats, avatar keys, and it even allows you to fine tune the scanners settings. You can adjust the pings for the scanner, switch
between displays and your HUD will adjust its data
accordingly. AVHUD requires a minimum of 1024x768 screen resolution to display
correctly. As there are a lot of gadgets in AVpack, we need all the screen real estate we can get, even if we are using both sides of the AVHUD.
The image below shows the main AVpack gadget launcher dial. Left click this to expand or contract the gadget icons. You can also see the "quick" buttons around the edges. These buttons allow you to quickly access your most used commands without expanding the hud fully. Chat commands are entered into the description field of these coloured buttons. The commands are the same that you would issue to AVpack over your chat interface. For example, if you wanted to rez your Alpha Flyer from the top yellow quick button (1 o'clock), you would enter /rez alpha flyer x6 into the buttons description field under the general tab. for a complete list of other chat commands you may wish to use, click here.
The black area of the dial is the main expand and contract function of the hud. Pressing this expands and contracts the gadget icons in and out of the screen. The glowing eye in the centre is where the red 'record button position' option will display once the hud is in it's expanded mode. This allows you to position individual gadget icons around your screen and save their positions for future use.
I Don't See My AVHUD
If you are having trouble locating the AVHUD, it may be that your screen size differs from the one we had during testing. Given the graphics power of today's PC's, many people run at several different screen resolution other than the bog standard 800x600. To help you, we have given the AVHUD to you in its expanded state. This will allow you to grab hold of it with your edit window and position it correctly to fit your screen. Try to place the gadget launcher dial in the top left of your screen for the AVHUD to function correctly. You can see an example of this in the images above. If you use desktop sidebars (like I do) like Google Desktop or Windows Vista, you may need to position the AVHUD further right than normal to compensate.
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