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NiceHUD (v.70)

The traditional health- and mana-orbs are fine in principle, but their placement at the bottom of the screen makes it hard to glance at them during intense fights. Unfortunately, that's also the time when this information is needed the most.
I therefore made this mod, which aims to create DHUD-like health- and mana-bars. Those are conveniently placed to the left and right of the character and since our horizontal peripheral vision is somewhat better than the vertical, we thus get a much better impression of the character's health and mana even when things get busy. Seeing the health of a character drop down from 100% to <30% in a couple of seconds is much more discernible with this hud, than with just the default-orbs.
I hope you'll find this useful as well. At the moment, NiceHUD consists of the bars and the textual values for the player's and the pet's mana, which appear once the player's health- or mana-pool sinks below 100%. When hovering an enemy with the mouse, an additional bar is added to show the target's health.

An options menu for this mod can be brought up via CTRL+N (rebindable in the controls-section). This gives you four different opacity settings to choose from (100%. 75%, 50% and 25%) plus the ability to disable NiceHUD's target-bar.

Planned:
- maybe attach the list of buff-icons to one of the bars.
- distinguish the type of targeted enemy via a symbol or maybe a different health-bar-colour.

This mod doesn't replace the old ui, it just adds something. It should therefore be perfectly safe to use with other mods, which change the HUD.LAYOUT. It does overwrite the keybind.dat-file though, in order to have a shortcut for the menu.