Half-Life 2 Customizable Heads Up Display

This addon for Garry's Mod mimicks the Heads Up Display feature from Valve's 2004 game Half-Life 2, adding a deep customization layer to it.

Installation

Steam Workshop

• Go to the addon's Steam Workshop page and subscribe to it.

Legacy install

Cloning the repository

• Go to your Garry's Mod addons folder.
• Open a terminal.
• git clone [email protected]:DyaMetR/hl2hud.git

Download latest release

• Download the latest release.
• Go to your Garry's Mod addons folder.
• Unzip the downloaded .zip file there.

How to use

Once installed you can find the options at:

Build menu (Q by default) -> Utilities -> Half-Life 2 HUD

Here you can find the following options:

• Enabled toggles the HUD entirely.
• Draw without suit will draw the HUD even if the player is not wearing their HEV suit.
• Keep CHud elements hidden will hide default HUD elements even if their Lua counter parts are disabled.
• Minimal hints will only display map hints. Weapon and vehicle hints will be disabled.
• The Schemes list lets you to quickly swap between registered schemes.
• Edit current scheme will open the scheme customization menu.
• Reset scheme to default will reset your current scheme to the default one. Losing any unsaved changes.

Scheme customization menu

The scheme customization menu allows you to change numerous aspects of your HUD, which are divided in different categories:

• ClientScheme changes colours and fonts.
• HudLayout changes HUD elements' properties.
• HudAnimations changes how the HUD reacts to certain events.
• HudTextures changes the different icons for weapons, ammunition and items.

Manual initialization

In case you're playing on a server that has sv_allowcslua enabled, you can initialize this HUD with the console command: lua_openscript_cl hl2hud.lua

BEWARE: The following features will NOT work on a server that does not have this addon installed.

• Poison damage indicator
• FULL ammunition pickup message
• Vehicle crosshairs
• Squad status indicator