Pulsing/flowing/neon animated System HUD

[Skurge]

Hey guys, been heavily considering changing my project's hud's visuals and wanting to see if there is a method out there than can have the colours used in the system graphics change throughout the game whilest looking through your menu or message boxes, the system only allows you to select one premade colour and such.


My project has a very neon/rainbow like style in alot of the game's atmosphere in a grim but colourful futuristic city. For starters I love how for example GTA Vice city combined alot of pink with Cyan in alot of there interface. To get pulsing effects with flowing colours or beaming lights would be fantastic to see in a game and especially would help keep it from looking boring and stagnant throughout gameplay.


I hope this makes any sort of sense, I haven't really found a plugin that does what I describe.

 

[Wavelength]

I think this is a really cool idea!  As far as I'm aware there are no existing plugins to animate the HUD (certainly could be wrong), but it could definitely be done by a talented JavaScripter.  If you're willing to drop a couple hundred dollars to have the clockworks created for you on several different windows/menus, this is the kind of commission that would probably get some takers.


Just be aware that it will slightly decrease performance - not a big deal if you're not already doing a lot of other processing-intensive stuff, but worth considering if you already have other things in place that are dropping performance or FPS.