The Scaleform HUD (Heads Up Display) Kit is the first in a series of high performance, full-featured, AAA quality user interface kits which developers can easily customize and drop into their game. The HUD kit demonstrates how to create a high performance first-person shooter (FPS) UI using the Autodesk® Scaleform® Direct Access API.

Figure 1: HUD Overview

The HUD kit features the following reusable UI elements:

1. Game Minimap
2. Animated Log of Game Events
3. Scoreboard and Team Statistics
4. Player Health / Ammo / Status
5. Animated Pop-Up Notifications
6. Experience and Rank Display
7. Dynamic Reticule
8. Directional Hit Indicator
9. Objective Capture Indicators
10. Billboards / Nameplates
11. Player Text Notifications

Although this kit provides an out of the box UI solution for any FPS game, users are not limited by the content provided. We expect users to customize or extend individual elements of this kit to create new and innovative interfaces for any type of game or application.