Left 4 Dead 2

Left 4 Dead 2

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Director Intensity Graph Enabler (Default HUD)
   
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Director Intensity Graph Enabler (Default HUD)

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This adds the director intensity graph to your ingame HUD, it shows how much intensity on the director, like infected kills based on distance, survivor damage taken based on amount, their state, infected spawns and director activities.

This is mostly useful if you are playing hard 4+ mutations, stop using it to cheat.

The graph doesn't appear immediately once you enter the game, you must pause and unpause the game to make it appear.

Trivia
director_show_intensity

You know about that cheat command? Yeah, which means you can only use it on servers with sv_cheats set to 1.

However, someone that I discussed with back in August 2023 told me a way to bypass it, I am not sure if they found it by themselves, or others have told them about it. Nevertheless, it's a cool discovery, so I decided to post it here to share with others, I want to give a special thanks to them, I won't mention them here since they want to stay anonymous.

Using ingamemainmenu.res, you can execute a convar without having sv_cheats set to 1, and it even works online. Sadly though, by default, the intensity graph overlaps the weapon panel, so I am forced to modify hudlayout.res to reposition the intensity graph for better visibility. (HudIntensityGraph)

So, it will conflict with add-ons that change the ingame pause menu, most HUDs, and others that modify hudlayout.res

I wasn't aware of this add-on before making this.

After a few tests, it allows you to execute any "cl", "cheat" flagged convars, I only tested a few and they seem to be working online, even r_flashlightfov.

Valve, please nerf ingamemainmenu.res.


If you are wondering, TF2 had the same exploit with the same method above until it is patched in 2022, you can watch the second video to see how it works. This is an extremely overpowered exploit that seriously needs to be patched, at least for me.
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18 Aug, 2024 @ 1:54am
PINNED: What is the intensity graph?
Interneted
26 Comments
Interneted  [author] 21 Apr @ 7:50am 
@T626
That add-on replaces the pause main menu by adding a button to fix the third person, so it will conflict.

@Anby Gaming
Well, the only way is to merge them by yourself, and I won't be making separate particularly for this reason .

VScript actually can do this, but it's out of my interest.
Alya-san 15 Apr @ 10:30pm 
I really wish this had other HUDs support like Tomaz's HUDs or SCHISM HUD (I'm using PDTH Styled HUD by tomaz), or either a Sourcemod plugin that also enables this function
T626 9 Apr @ 8:49am 
@Interneted it conflicts with https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3239153087 . Just wanted to let you know.
스나오 17 Mar @ 10:48am 
Aww darn :MaterialGirl_expression4:
I've also looked through relevant files and I also couldn't find, although I'm still hopeful haha.
Thanks again for looking through! I really appreciate it.
Interneted  [author] 17 Mar @ 8:33am 
I am not sure about that, so far I looked through the localization/resource files (not all of them) and still found nothing regarding the elements.
스나오 17 Mar @ 3:51am 
Also thank you in advance!
스나오 17 Mar @ 3:49am 
Hello, I'm sorry for the random question, but I was wondering would it be possible to edit elements of the intensity graph? (ex: change the text such as BUILD_UP or PEAK_FADE to a different text just like how you can edit text in-game for other things like credits, captions, or survivor names + visual elements like background and bar to a different image)

I have been trying to figure it out although I don't have many resources I could find so I thought I would try asking just in case :ninjasmile:
Interneted  [author] 16 Feb @ 8:00pm 
@aeiou
It still works on official server, I've just tested it, but I can't say that it works for every cl flagged cvars.

And for everyone asking if I will make a version with other HUDs, I am afraid no, for more clariffication, you can see one of my replies in the pinned discussion.

I have no idea steam unsubscribed me from this item for whatever reason.
aeiou [DFS] 16 Feb @ 6:02am 
i mean clientside by cl, by the way
aeiou [DFS] 16 Feb @ 6:01am 
i can't even execute the clientside convars that were used for cheating, was this patched?