Edit/disable althud

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Edit/disable althud

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Post by HexaDoken » Thu Aug 10, 2017 7:35 pm

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Is it possible to somehow edit or at least disable alt-hud? I want to disallow the player to see precise health and ammo counts on their HUD, which is easy to do as long as they use the normal hud but goes right out of the window as long as alt-hud is turned on.

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Re: Edit/disable althud

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Post by Ivan » Thu Aug 10, 2017 9:51 pm

Make your hud using ACS and put carefully placed images to block parts of the alt-hud. That can be a good workaround.
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Re: Edit/disable althud

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Post by Ænima » Fri Aug 11, 2017 6:01 am

Ivan wrote:Make your hud using ACS and put carefully placed images to block parts of the alt-hud. That can be a good workaround.
That sounds shitty, man. :/


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Re: Edit/disable althud

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Post by HexaDoken » Fri Aug 11, 2017 3:05 pm

Ivan wrote:Make your hud using ACS and put carefully placed images to block parts of the alt-hud. That can be a good workaround.
Yeah that... is not exactly ideal, if not only because of the difficulty of creating a proper hud in ACS. (how do u bars? how do you scale?(sethudsize exists but iirc if you have widescreen monitor it will not allow you to put anything beyond 4:3 space). also want to coopspy somebody and see their hud? haha nope). On top of that if somebody will really want to see the numerical values of their health and ammo there are a bunch of other ways they could do it (chat substitution, printinv).

I do guess I could slap a "Hey kids this mod is not really designed with althud in mind" message of some sort...
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Re: Edit/disable althud

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Post by Ivan » Fri Aug 11, 2017 3:06 pm

Ænima wrote:
Ivan wrote:Make your hud using ACS and put carefully placed images to block parts of the alt-hud. That can be a good workaround.
That sounds shitty, man. :/
Shitty or not, a solution regardless. Back in the old days people would work around limitations rather than cry about solutions being "shitty".
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Re: Edit/disable althud

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Post by NachtIntellect » Fri Aug 11, 2017 3:22 pm

Ivan wrote:
Ænima wrote:
Ivan wrote:Make your hud using ACS and put carefully placed images to block parts of the alt-hud. That can be a good workaround.
That sounds shitty, man. :/
Shitty or not, a solution regardless. Back in the old days people would work around limitations rather than cry about solutions being "shitty".
I do actually have one problem with using ACS for HUD that is if you plan to go into an online game now if the HUD is in the list of used wads that's fine but without it you won't be able to play online with the hud, but if you use ACS for the hud and the server you join is lagging somewhat it will flicker which can be annoying.

The best solution would be to use a custom hud but don't define anything you don't want.

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Re: Edit/disable althud

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Post by Ivan » Fri Aug 11, 2017 4:15 pm

WhiteAce wrote:
Ivan wrote:
Ænima wrote:
Ivan wrote:Make your hud using ACS and put carefully placed images to block parts of the alt-hud. That can be a good workaround.
That sounds shitty, man. :/
Shitty or not, a solution regardless. Back in the old days people would work around limitations rather than cry about solutions being "shitty".
I do actually have one problem with using ACS for HUD that is if you plan to go into an online game now if the HUD is in the list of used wads that's fine but without it you won't be able to play online with the hud, but if you use ACS for the hud and the server you join is lagging somewhat it will flicker which can be annoying.

The best solution would be to use a custom hud but don't define anything you don't want.
You make the hud clientside and sync whatever you need to sync using items.
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