GTA VI HUD Concepts

[Blennerville]

GTA5 gps is not 3D, its just a rectangle and it viewed from an angle instead of being a plan view.

 

I dont think its great myself. I like it at the start because of the angled view but then after a while I discovered it to be problematic - when there where not of sideroads I found often id either take the turn too early or go past the turn I was supposed to. That would never happen with a plan view like in gta4.

 

Also the rectangular shape was a problem because; for example if the cops are coming at you from a certain angle they dont show up on the gps until they are very close to you because with a rectangle the distance from the centre point to the edges varies and your player location icon is not even at the centre.

With the circle none of these problems exist.

 

 

The only thing thats better about the GPS in 5 imo is the ability to increase the size of the gps map in the online, and the ability to zoom out in singleplayer. i dont know why they didnt just go with the larger map with singleplayer as well, its much better than zooming out imo.

 

 

Also the bigger health and armor bars in gta4 are better than the small ones in gta5. Health segments and partial regen are good, but id rather 5 segments, or %'s like in gta3.

 

 

The weapon wheel and radio in gta5 sucks donkey balls, the old L2, R2 days were much better.

[GR7]

Damn í suck at Photoshopping...

 

We all have to start somewhere I would suggest changing the colour scheme to start with, the purple health doesn't match with the traditional blue armour and yellow special

 

Maybe something like this would work better colour-wise

[GR7]

Got rid of the icons so I could make more space for the percentages which hopefully makes things clearer, replaced the icons with mini bars that drain vertically, hopefully it's a change for the better. As for my actual concept it's still coming, pretty much everything is done just got the artwork to do but I've been busy lately so it might take a while to get that done.

 

Edited May 15, 2014 by Gregers08

[bst81]

Maybe R* will change the HUD again, Not rectangle minimap anymore

or maybe still use rectangle, but no border. And health, armor (No bar, but with numbers) and ammo on bottom left side

Btw I like the watch dogs minimap, cool