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Making HUD icons since TLS update
By Alex_D #NoWar
A relevant guide to making the HUD icons, after The Last Stand Update has reworked the scripts, changing the system to not rely on custom script edits.
   
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Alex_D #NoWar
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Category: Modding or Configuration
Languages: English
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6 Oct, 2020 @ 8:52am
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0:00 Basics and melee
18:00 Primary weapon
25:00 Dual pistols
39:00 Items (assist pic below)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/konvxazccpqo0sw/icon_items.png?dl=0
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Alex_D #NoWar  [author] 19 Jul, 2021 @ 7:11am 
Crowbar and GCFscape can open VPK files. You need the pak01.dir in the update folder
Agent 10 19 Jul, 2021 @ 4:18am 
Apparently, I don't have the right program to get to them or am just straight-up doing it wrong. Oh well.
Alex_D #NoWar  [author] 19 Jul, 2021 @ 3:27am 
The new scripts are found in the pak01 of the "update" folder. Everything is the same as before, just the HUD icon location is changed (and some shell ejection effects and maybe something else).
Agent 10 19 Jul, 2021 @ 1:45am 
Could you possibly make a guide on rescripting weapons post-TLS? I only know how to do that kind of thing the old way and I'm fairly certain that won't work anymore.
Rein Kayomi 15 Apr, 2021 @ 6:52am 
Gave this a fav, this might come in handy later.
Alex_D #NoWar  [author] 30 Mar, 2021 @ 10:40am 
Just download any mod that has them and reverse engineer it. That way you can find out which files to change and where to locate them.
Yuzu 29 Mar, 2021 @ 4:26pm 
Are there any guides which will teach me how to make health bar huds?
Nate 28 Dec, 2020 @ 8:34am 
Ok. I don't have much familiarity with the .res files. Maybe I will poke around. Thank you for the info!
Alex_D #NoWar  [author] 28 Dec, 2020 @ 2:46am 
There's no way to change those icons through scripts. I suspect this is changed elsewhere, perhaps in hudlayout.res
Nate 27 Dec, 2020 @ 11:09pm 
Ok so I watched to the end with the defibulator icon and it leads me to a question...

I've made a hud icon replacing the pain pills, I now know that I will have to redo it, as I see the purpose of the different sizing for the left and the right icons (will use your png thanks for providing).

My question is this: how do you replace the greyed out/unobtained equipment icon (when you don't have the defib, pain pills, etc.). Can this be replaced or no?