Forums » Impact Engine » How to create graphical HUD surrounding game map?

Not sure the question is clear. I am attempting to duplicate an old Mac classic RPG as a browser based game. The original has a graphical image showing player stats and game feedback in a column on the right hand side and the map in a smaller viewport on the left. My question is if something similar can be done with Impactjs and, if so, how to go about it?

Thanks for any help!

For the very basic implementation, you can create a png image for your HUD and just draw it in your games draw function after this.parent(). So it will draw it over everything else.

@twgray it has been a while since I have dabbled in impact (looking to get back into the platform with a mmo), but when I created a test games I used html5/css to generate my HUD and z-index'd the buttons, etc., above the canvas.

Might this work for you?