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[MidiGuyDP]

Hi there! Name's MidiGuyDP. How's it going?

I've come here with a... probably rather unique question. Before I get to it, I wanna go over what I'd like to do.

So I've got the game called Re-Volt on the PC, and I enjoy doing scenario races by grabbing custom cars made by the community, and having them represent other characters/people, in this case, Super Mario Bros characters

So this is all good. However, I want to take it a step further, and add a top 4 style interface to the left that keeps track of the position of the top 4 racers, think of the interface in Mario Kart 64. (See attached picture for example)

So that's the gist.

I've recently installed cheat engine, thinking I could use it's lua related features to perhaps Draw this information to the game screen (I've done it on SMBX), but I don't think that's do able.

What I have managed to do, is find the information that tells me this:

-The name of the racer
-The position of the racer

Here's some code that I've put together figured out so far (Basic compared to most stuff I've seen)

[Csimbi]

CE can surely find the values you'd need and with LUA you can sort out the top 4 and feed the final data 'somewhere'.
My hunch is, you will need to tap into DirectX (or similar) to actually draw onto the canvas and put the data fed by the LUA script.
Never done it, just a hunch.

So, my logic would be: Use CE to find values, fetch, sort and format with LUA, and feed to your own engine that draws to the canvas.

Good luck!

You might want to make a tutorial out of it, I'm sure plenty of people would be interested.

PS.
I loved Re-Volt, too back in the days

[MidiGuyDP]

Welp, thanks to the thread called:

"Basic Animation Uisng CE GUI and Lua Script" by Corroder

I was able to pretty much achieve what I wanted to do.


Here's some videos of it in action (On a youtube channel called MidiGuyDPGamer):

(1st demonstration, TOP 5 Positions on a separate window on the side)
/watch?v=COwMb8PNZKU
Name: [Re-Volt] 16-Car Mario Themed Race (TOP 5 Positions on Side)

(2nd demo, TOP 5 integrated into game screen OBS recording)
/watch?v=WU8xxY3yVs8
Name: [Re-Volt] 16-Car Mario Themed Race (TOP 5 Positions on game)

(Load youtube(dot)com and add those links to it, or search for those specific video titles. Can't post Urls atm so this is the best way I can share, I attached a preview screen though)


So yeah, the Basic Animation thread had what I needed, it provided me with info on how to create the canvas I needed to put the position images. Then with that I just needed to find a way to use the "IF" command with the Name & Position data to tell it when to display what, and made a nice looking interface in the process. ^^

The second video has OBS using window display 5 times with the appropriate cropping to display the TOP 5 positions on an overlay that I custom made for that scene on OBS to record the gameplay. They're not on the game screen it'self, but it's as close as I've gotten to doing so.

Check out the vids and let me know what you guys think. I think it turned out pretty good!


Though if anyone knows of a way to draw the data right on to the game screen itself, let me know!

[mindoff]

Looking nice,how did you draw the custom image to screen with Lua?

Could you share some keyword or maybe code to show how you did it?

Want to draw a custom hud myself,got no idea.

[MidiGuyDP]

I actually didn't draw it directly to the screen.

I used the CE Animation made by Corroder as a template to allow me to use the data to create another window that contained the changing positions.

I then used OBS to screengrab the gameplay, and the new generated window with the changing top 5 positions. Allowing me to overlay it onto the gameplay (On the OBS screen)

This is the Code I put together using the Animation as a Template:

[Csimbi]

I watched that second video.
Wow, nice job, congrats!