How to: Customize your own HUD - ET-Legacy-Competitive/faq GitHub Wiki
Besides the default HUD options and few settings for HUD elements ETLegacy also provides a way to change the location of all the HUD elements. Just like your normal config this is done through an extra file that can be loaded called hud.dat.
Step 1
Create a file called hud.dat in your legacy mod folder. e.g. C:\Users\PCUSER\Documents\ETLegacy\legacy
Step 2
Paste the text below into the file you just created hud.dat.
hudDef {
hud {
hudnumber 5 // x y w h s v
compass 44 393 84 84 0 1
staminabar 4 388 12 72 0 1
breathbar 4 388 12 72 0 1
healthbar 604 388 12 72 0 1
weaponchargebar 624 388 12 72 0 1
healthtext 580 415 0 0 0 1
xptext 48 476 0 0 0 1
ranktext 62 464 0 0 0 1
statsdisplay 24 385 0 0 1 1
weaponicon 538 424 60 32 0 1
weaponammo 598 470 0 0 0 1
fireteam 400 10 100 100 0 1
popupmessages 4 100 72 72 0 1
powerups 600 344 36 36 0 1
objectives 8 344 36 36 0 1
hudhead 44 388 62 80 0 0
cursorhints 296 260 48 48 0 1
weaponstability 50 208 10 64 0 1
livesleft 0 0 0 0 0 1
reinforcement 570 390 0 0 0 1
roundtimer 570 390 0 0 0 1
spawntimer 570 390 0 0 0 1
localtime 570 400 0 0 0 1
votetext 8 224 0.22 0.22 1 1
spectatortext 8 188 0.22 0.22 1 1
limbotext 8 164 0.22 0.22 1 1
followtext 8 164 0.22 0.22 1 1
demotext 10 9 0.22 0.22 1 1
}
}
Let's go through what the text means step by step.
hudDef { is just a definition to tell the game that it knows it is reading a HUD definition.
hud { signifies the start of a HUD configuration. You can have multiple. As you can see the line hudnumber 5 defines which number is related to this specific configuration. This number corresponds with the value of cvar cg_althud.
From here all text is a HUD element. The numbers after it mean the following:
- X: Amount of pixels from left to right on the screen. Depends on your resolution and can be relative.
- Y: Amount of pixels from top to bottom on the screen. Depends on your resolution and can be relative.
- Width: Amount of pixels in width.
- Height: Amount of pixels in height.
- Style: Presents the HUD element in a other style if available.
- Visible: Boolean value to toggle visibility. 0 = Hidden, 1 = Shown
Step 3
Start the game and type in console the following commands.
readhuds
cg_althud x where 'x' is the hud number you set in the hud.dat file.
cg_althudflags x where x depends if you want to move things like fireteam. 5 or above to have it in top right corner. It also influences other elements if they use the numbers from hudfile or hardcoded values.
Optional - Changing size and color
It is now possible to change the size and color from most hud elements. To do this you can use the existing hud file and add the numbers for scale and color on each row. This is an example:
hudDef {
hud {
hudnumber 5 // x y w h s v sc r g b a
compass 44 393 84 84 0 1 0.19 1 1 1 1
staminabar 4 388 12 72 0 1 0.19 1 1 1 1
breathbar 4 388 12 72 0 1 0.19 1 1 1 1
healthbar 604 388 12 72 0 1 0.19 1 1 1 1
weaponchargebar 624 388 12 72 0 1 0.19 1 1 1 1
healthtext 580 415 0 0 0 1 0.25 1 1 1 1
xptext 48 476 0 0 0 1 0.25 1 1 1 1
ranktext 62 464 0 0 0 1 0.20 1 1 1 1
statsdisplay 24 385 0 0 1 1 0.25 1 1 1 1
weaponicon 538 424 60 32 0 1 0.19 1 1 1 1
weaponammo 598 470 0 0 0 1 0.25 1 1 1 1
fireteam 400 10 100 100 0 1 0.19 1 1 1 1
popupmessages 4 100 72 72 0 1 0.19 1 1 1 1
powerups 600 344 36 36 0 1 0.19 1 1 1 1
objectives 8 344 36 36 0 1 0.19 1 1 1 1
hudhead 44 388 62 80 0 0 0.19 1 1 1 1
cursorhints 296 260 48 48 0 1 0.19 1 1 1 1
weaponstability 50 208 10 64 0 1 0.19 1 1 1 1
livesleft 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.19 1 1 1 1
reinforcement 570 390 0 0 0 1 0.19 0 0.5 1 1
roundtimer 570 390 0 0 0 1 0.19 1 1 1 1
spawntimer 570 390 0 0 0 1 0.19 1 0 0 1
localtime 570 400 0 0 0 1 0.19 0.6 0.6 0.6 1
votetext 8 224 0.22 0.22 1 1 0.19 1 1 1 1
spectatortext 8 188 0.22 0.22 1 1 0.19 1 1 1 1
limbotext 8 164 0.22 0.22 1 1 0.19 1 1 1 1
followtext 8 164 0.22 0.22 1 1 0.19 1 1 1 1
demotext 10 9 0.22 0.22 1 1 0.22 1 0 0 1
}
}
As you can see there are 5 new numbers added behind the numbers that were already there. The new numbers represent the following:
- sc = Scale = The size of text / icons. A floating punt number that can go above 1. e.g. 6.66.
- r,g,b = Red/Blue/Green = A floating point number between 0 and 1 that represents how much of a color is used. You can use the following sites to find out the numbers for the color you want.
- a = alpha = The opacity of the text. 0.1 almost invisible, 1 very clear.
https://corecoding.com/utilities/rgb-or-hex-to-float.php
http://etconfig.net/et-color-codes/et-color-codes/
Just put the html color code in and you will get the rgb values in floating point values.