Heads-Up Display: Difference between revisions

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A screenshot of GTA Vice City showing the HUD. Click the image for a detailed analysis.

A Heads-up display, often abbreviated as HUD, is a set of indicators used in most games to show the player's current status in a game, such as the score, health and the like. A HUD can be used to convey many different types of information, such as time, score, money, health, armour, weaponry, ammunition, warnings (eg "wrong way" in a race) maps with blips and subtitles of conversations.

The HUD in the current GTA III Era games display the following information:

Radar - a small map of the player's current location
Money - always in US Dollars
Weapon selected and ammunition
Health
Armour
Air (GTA SA)
Respect Level (GTA 2)
Skills (GTA SA)
Wanted level

Other elements appear on the HUD in other situations, such as a dialogue subtitles, help messages, and a "Busted" or "Wasted" sign if the player gets arrested or killed respectively.

Floating pickups, such as a police bribe are not considered to be a part of the HUD even though only the player can see them. This is also true for floating markers which indicate where to park or walk into.

See Image:Wanted_level.jpg for a detailed analysis of the GTA VC HUD

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-[[Image:San Andreas HUD.jpg|thumb|180px|right|Some parts of a GTA heads-up display]]
+[[Image:Wanted level.jpg|thumb|right|250px|A screenshot of [[GTA Vice City]] showing the HUD. Click the image for a detailed analysis.]]
+A '''Heads-up display''', often abbreviated as '''HUD''', is a set of indicators used in most games to show the player's current status in a game, such as the score, health and the like. A HUD can be used to convey many different types of information, such as time, score, money, health, armour, weaponry, ammunition, warnings (eg "wrong way" in a race) maps with blips and subtitles of conversations.
-A '''Heads-up display''', often abbreviated as '''HUD''', is a set of indicators used to show the player's current status in the game, such as the score, health/armor points, and the like. Most games, especially the ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' series, uses this system.
+The HUD in the current [[GTA III Era]] games display the following information:
-The HUD in ''Grand Theft Auto'' may display the following information:
+*[[Radar]] - a small map of the player's current location
+*[[Money]] - always in US Dollars
+*[[Weapons|Weapon]] selected and ammunition
+*[[Health]]
+*[[Armour]]
+*[[Air]] ([[GTA SA]])
+*[[Respect Level]] ([[GTA 2]])
+*[[Skills]] ([[GTA SA]])
+*[[Wanted level]]
-*[[Money]]
+Other elements appear on the HUD in other situations, such as a dialogue subtitles, help messages, and a "[[Busted]]" or "[[Wasted]]" sign if the player gets arrested or killed respectively.
-*[[Weapons]] selected
-*Health/armor points
-*Respect level ([[GTA 2]])
-*Skills ([[GTA San Andreas]])
-*[[Radar]]
-*Wanted level
-It may display other indicators such as countdown timers and/or car damage, depending on the mission played.
+Floating [[pickup]]s, such as a police bribe are not considered to be a part of the HUD even though only the player can see them. This is also true for floating markers which indicate where to park or walk into.
-[[Image:Wanted level.jpg|thumb|180px|right|Screenshot of GTA: Vice City showing the HUD]]
+:''See [[:Image:Wanted_level.jpg]] for a detailed analysis of the [[GTA VC]] HUD''
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