Sandbox HUD Frames

Sandbox HUD Frames is a set of 10 heads-up display frames drawn in the voxel style, where each surface is the front face of a cube with a lit top face and a shaded right face. It contains a minimap frame with a north marker, a character portrait frame, a compass strip, three crosshair reticles, an objective waypoint marker and a quest tracker plate.

These are the pieces that stay on screen the whole time a game is being played, which makes them the hardest to get right: every one of them has to be readable over arbitrary game art without covering the middle of the screen.

The extrusion is real geometry rather than a shadow: the light angle never changes, there are exactly three tones per block, and the front face is inset so the cube stays inside its own sprite bounds.

Inside that style this is the Sandbox reading of it: a light interface on a desert tan palette with sky blue accents, built around a header band across the top of the frame, chamfered buttons at 112x40, banded bars divided into 12 segments, and two-tone icons on a 16px grid. Those measurements are why two families can share an art style without being interchangeable: the style decides how an edge is drawn, the numbers decide what the interface is for.

The quest plate marks a completed objective with a filled box and a struck-through line rather than by dimming it, so the tracker stays legible against a bright sky. The compass ticks alternate major and minor so a heading can be read at a glance rather than counted.

Every sprite ships as an editable SVG and as transparent PNG at 1x, 2x and 4x, so you can drop the PNGs straight into an engine or open the vector and change a colour. Built to the same measurements as the rest of the Sandbox family, which means this kit and the Sandbox panel kit line up without either being resized. A good fit for voxel and blocky games.

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