I don't think the placement is a problem myself, but an option for transparency would be nice, as sometimes big games have a good chunk of the screen taken up by health bars.

yah i know but with transparency the problem is it is still there and would have to be pretty transparent for that to work

Well, I don't really think moving it top right is going to solve the problem. Wherever you might move it, it's always going to be "in the way" for somebody. The bottom of the screen is probably least intrusive, already.

Perhaps what is needed is some kind of toggle visibility option, like there already is for hog team/names/health. That would solve the problem pretty neatly.

its more i play a lot of surf n crate and if you dont get enough speed youcant see your hedge and he ends up dying.

We could possibly add a config option to scale down the size of the bars? Perhaps relative to play area height?
Just how large a window size do you play with? I use 1280x960, and never really noticed the bars as an issue, but I suppose smaller sizes it could be a problem.

I don't know about him, but I was using 640x480 and 800x600 on my older machines, and I never saw it as a problem unless it was a game with 4 or more people.

I play on 1024x768, and on around 5-8 players it starts to become a problem when you want to use Flying Saucer underwater.

Same problem as mikade. Other problem, when I press F12 to be in "windows" mode, the bottom of the window disappears and I can't see the health bar.

badabouh. Go into game settings and reduce the window size.

i agree with nemo. but i play on a 800x600, and its a big problem.

http://code.google.com/p/hedgewars/source/detail?r=6ba1e40a360c739e446d90eddecc42a3d9fa4c11

If the list of teams would exceed 14.3% of screen, shrink to 75% of normal.
If the list of teams also would exceed 20% of screen, set to 50% opacity.

nemo what does that mean?

In the next version,if the list of the teams took up 1/7 of the screen,they will shrink.If they take up 1/5 of the screen,they will be 50% transparent

That would be very nice. Especially if you're on a netbook.

*BTW it looks like you a word out.

i have a idea, sometimes you play, and you forget how many hedgehog the other player still have alive, so i think
the health bar could be fractionate, the height total don't change but if you have 5 hedgehog, instead of see a bar like that [________] you have [_|_|_|_|_]
you see what i mean ? what do you think about it ?

also i would like to say, especially to nem

it's better, but not always enough, you really should give the possibility to players to hide them like for hedgehod health with delete key, cause when you play at below of a map, sometimes it's still anoying.

(sorry for my english if not enough good)