YouTube & Twitch User HUDs - rbjaxter/budhud GitHub Wiki

Description

Some users prefer their HUD to look slightly different from the core HUD, and their versions of the HUD can be found in ..\budhud\#users\.

Steps

  1. Navigate to ../budhud/#users/
  2. Find the name of the person whose HUD you'd like to use and remove the underscore from the end of the name of the folder. For instance, dane_ would be renamed to dane.

The core HUD must be installed the same either way (see: HUD Installation).

#Users Screenshots

Dane:

jayhyunpae:

zenith:

Additional Note

Generally speaking, I would advise against using someone's #users customizations and making your own changes unless you know what you're doing.

If you attempt to make a change to the hud in _budhud but a #users customization is already changing that same file and value, your value will not affect the hud. This is because #users customizations are designed to be loaded before anything else.

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For those interested in having their own #users folder

Generally speaking the only conditions I have for me editing and adding a #users folder is that:

  • You're someone with a userbase that would benefit from it (youtubers, twitch streamers, etc)
    • My original reason for making #users folders was to:
      • (1) Make it easier for people who use budhud to update their hud
      • (2) Make it easier for your audience to find your version of the hud
  • You don't plan to stop using the hud like a week after I make all of the changes (lol)
  • You don't want a complete rewrite/ludicrous number of changes to the hud

Here are some "easy changes" examples:

  • The positioning of anything that is not a menu (ammo, health, TargetIDs, etc)
  • (Almost) anything relating to HUD colors
  • HUD crosshair
  • HUD background (though I'm hesitant about this because menu backgrounds are like 80% of the hud's size lol)

Examples of "not ideal changes" would be:

  • chat_english.txt changes -- requires an extra step for your audience
  • Animation changes (such as health/ammo animations) these are fine now, actually

Examples of "hard changes" would be:

  • Adjusting menus -- just a whole lotta work unless you've already done it lol

If you've already made your own #users folder and have your customizations implemented that way, the process of adding your files will be exceedingly easy. If you're on a very old version of budhud or you've been editing the _budhud folder directly, it will be more challenging.