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VHUD2 - Simplistic Clean HUD
   
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Content Type: Addon
Addon Type: Effects
Addon Tags: Build, Fun
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26 Mar @ 8:47am
28 Mar @ 6:12am
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VHUD2 - Simplistic Clean HUD

Description
This is a remake of my old minimalistic HUD mod from a few years ago. It's a complete re-code from the ground up, incorporating requested features for the old HUD as well as overall improving on the functionality, features, display, and usability of the HUD.

Features
The Minimum:
This HUD obviously supports the minimum. It shows your health, armour, ammo, and active weapon.

HEV Suit Power:
When the convar gmod_suit is set to 1, you will have Half-Life 2's HEV suit functionality enabled. Most HUDs do not support displaying this value, but this one does.

Draconic Shields:
If you are using the addon "Sandbox Shields" or any other addon which utilizes the Draconic Base's shield system on players, this HUD supports showing their shields. If the player has no suit power (armour) it will display in its place there. If the player has suit power it will instead display as a thin line below the suit power.

Utility Ammo Display:
VHUD2, like its original, features a "utility ammo display" alongside presets for which utilities to display. VHUD2 comes with two modes:
- Half-Life 2: Displays grenades, SMG grenades, AR2 orbs, and SLAMs.
- Half-Life 1: Displays HL1 grenades, MP5 grenades, satchels, tripmines, and snarks.

Ammo Visualizer:
A row of little bullets in your weapon info which displays how many rounds are remaining in your currently active weapon. The empty space will flash red when you are low on ammo. This space also functions as a heat bar for battery-based weapons with overheat.

Compass:
While it's not as visually impressive as most others available on the Workshop, I think it serves well enough for the style of this HUD. It can be left separate or merged into the player info panel. The compass displays your bearing as well as both cardinal & ordinal directions.

Damage Indicators:
VHUD2 adds the option for a 3D radial damage indicator at the bottom of the screen. The indicator will have a small bouncing element used to indicate where the damage is originating from.

NPC Healthbars:
NPC Healthbars which will hover a short distance over an injured NPC's head. These, like everything else, can be disabled.

Customization:
- Colours: VHUD2, unlike the original, features a full panel of colour customization to personalize the HUD any way you might want.
- HUD Anchoring: VHUD2 relies on the Draconic Base's HUD scale & anchoring system, which enables you to pick where on your screen you want the HUD elements to originate from. They default to the bottom, but can be flipped horizontally & vertically.
- 3D Depth: VHUD2 includes a 3D effect which can be toggled on & off at user preference.
- Client AND serverside settings: VHUD2 features the ability for users to opt to disable certain parts of the HUD, or for server operators to forcibly disable elements if they do not wish for them to be accessible on their server. All convars can be found under sv_vhud2_

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90 Comments
Patrick the Legendary 23 Oct @ 3:01pm 
Should add a feature to display the name of ammo types it provides more a idea what ammo Guns ammo use even for custom ammo types
FrutigerAeroDreamer 7 Sep @ 12:03pm 
Oops. That explains it.
Vuthakral  [author] 6 Sep @ 10:56am 
You did not install the required addon
FrutigerAeroDreamer 6 Sep @ 10:26am 
This addon is currently broken, as the UI does not appear at all. The problems menu is outputting the following feedback (letters A and B have been added at the beginning to differentiate the two arguments):

(A): [VHUD2 - Simplistic Clean HUD] lua/autorun/vuthhud2.lua:62: attempt to index global 'DRC' (a nil value)
1. unknown - lua/autorun/vuthhud2.lua:62

(B): [VHUD2 - Simplistic Clean HUD] lua/autorun/vuthhud2.lua:5: attempt to index global 'DRC' (a nil value)
1. v - lua/autorun/vuthhud2.lua:5
2. unknown - lua/includes/modules/hook.lua:102
Vuthakral  [author] 20 Aug @ 12:18pm 
Thank you for the detailed feedback. I clearly understand the issue of bugs you are encountering and I can fix them instantly.
gradient4 20 Aug @ 11:17am 
buggy :steamsad:
Hal Gordan Freeman 8 Jul @ 4:31pm 
needs more skeumorphism
cF 22 Jun @ 9:28pm 
Okay well nevermind it fixed itself after totally restarting the game but yes I have dark ui spawnmenu installed.
Vuthakral  [author] 22 Jun @ 9:09pm 
Do you have any kind of custom spawnmenu mod installed, and is this in the sandbox gamemode or something else?
cF 22 Jun @ 9:07pm 
I installed this and the mod it depends on and the console commands are there but I'm looking around the spawn menu for the settings and everywhere I can think of and I'm not seeing anything about vhud2.
The console says it's enabled but I only have the default hud as far as I can see.