Legacy Huds

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Introduction

Because the .gui files are not subject to the "pure" validation it is possible to create a custom hud and use it online. Which hud you use is selected using the hud_style cvar. Thanks to this feature, some players have created their own custom hud files, and have made these public.

The arrival of the SuperHud system in Q4Max 0.80 makes .gui huds unnecessary. Nonetheless, this is the old list of custom huds, "as is" : we won't check if the links are still valid, or for which old version of Q4Max they work.

For information on creating custom guis, we recommend examining the many gui files (including those shipped with q4max), and reading the information available at both iddevnet, and modwiki.

Custom Huds

SOBPak14

Author
Essobie
Notes
New file organization. All files accessed via #includes in sobpak14.gui. Don't like a feature? Remark it out! Or better yet, replace it with your own creation! Brand new weapon inventory system!
Icons for when you have the weapon, and colored boxes for when the weapon is selected. No "no ammo" symbol until the issues with it get resolved (if ever). Health on the left, armor on the right. Both shrink toward the middle.
"Heads Up" ammo counter showing you how much ammo is in the weapon you are holding; color coded for easy recognition.
Quake 2 style "negative death" counter now turns red and flashes when you die so you know just how dead you really are!
Bleeding health and armor values flash from white to cyan to white to let you know you won't stay healthy forever.
"Rail Shield" bar above health and armor bars tells you how many Railgun shots you can take without dying (3+ Rails = Blue, 2=Green, 1=White, <1=Red) (thanks to XelNaga for doing the scripted comparisons!)
Screenshot
External link
Download
http://crap.nofadz.com/files/sobpak14.rar
Forum Discussion
http://www.q4max.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=544

SOBpak15

Author
Essobie
Notes
As per SOBpak14, plus:
Extreme minimalist layout, especially if you have ui_showGun set to 1 (show weapon model). Health and Armor are only on top of the gun model, so no view area is obstructed.
New shrinking health and armor bars that are crisp colors that get slowly replaced with translucent black as you take damage.
Tiny "Rail Threat" system to show you how many rails you can take. No need to know what color is what... just look how many green dots are between your health and armor! No dots? Yer in trouble!
Tiny Marine font ammo count and inventory system tucked away on the bottom right.
Squashed Powerup display in the top right.
Team Overlay placed low, low, low and to the left.
Obligatory Clip Ammo just below the crosshair, colored to match weapon choice. Look, if you don't like this you are broken. But even then, it's easy enough to remove from the pk4!
Screenshot
External link
Download
http://crap.nofadz.com/files/sobpak15.rar
Forum discussion
http://www.q4max.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=544

minhud5 - Minimalistic HUD

Author
SpOOnman
Tools used
mind, gVim, zip, Q4.
Target
Minimalistic HUD, like I had in Q3A OSP.
Time wasted
1 hour (plus updates)
Notes
It's based on cpmhud5.gui, so it's not 'mine', it's just reworked. It works as Q4MAX hud with name "minhud5.gui"

Features:
- 3 railsafse blue colors
- teambackground (like Q3OSP)
- low hp warning
- small weaponlist

Project site
SpOOnman's projects : http://www.haze.ehost.pl/spoonman/index.php5?p=3
Screenshots
Weaponlist: External link
Railsafe colors: External link
Download
http://www.haze.ehost.pl/spoonman/index.php5?d=4
Forum Discussion
http://www.q4max.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=519

SemiHud

Author
semicolon
Notes
Modified version of Minimalistic HUD changes it to be more like cpmhud1 style with colored health and armor
Screenshot
External Link
Download
http://www.dotcomma.us/q4/semihud/semihud.pk4

bty HUD v75

Author
XelNaga
Notes
Weapon bars: Centered in the middle of the screen, above the health/armor. If you have the weapon + amunition, it shows the background color at the corresponding place + the number of bullets on top of that. If you have the weapon, and no ammunition, it only shows the background color at that place. And if you don't have the weapon, a slight shade covers the place.
Health/Armor bars: Centered at the bottom of the screen. The bars grow from 0-100 and stay the same size from 100-200. Both go from the middle to the outside, health left, armor right. Health/armor amount are displayed on top of the bars in white and aligned to the middle of the screen. Coloured to how many rails you can survive.
Plus: The ammo amount of the current weapon is displayed right under the crosshair in the color of the weapon.
Screenshot
External link
Download
http://mitglied.lycos.de/xelnaga999/bty.pk4
Forum Discussion
http://www.q4max.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1218

jacHUD - Just Another Custom HUD ;)

Author
lava
Version
v1.26b (2006-08-27)
Info & Features
Based on Essobie's sobpak13 HUD (thanks!)
CPMA/OSP style layout
"No Ammo" icon over weapons with zero ammo (will be hidden if you pickup ammo for that weapon or the weapon itself)
"Unlimited Ammo" icon for InstaGib
Crisp weapon icons even at low image_downsizeLimit values
One- and two rows health & armorbar layouts available
Color of health and armor indicates railsafe level:
GREEN = you'll survive 3 rails
WHITE = you'll survive 2 rails
ORANGE = you'll survive 1 rail
RED = 1 rail and you'll drop dead
Thin ammo bar above health / armor bars
Ammo counter for current weapon below crosshair
Ammo indicators will turn red when you're low on ammo
Team-colored teamoverlay
Organized .gui files for better customizability, many options can be changed in hud_jachud_vars.gui file (see "Advanced Customization" in the ReadMe)
Screenshot
External Link
Download
http://www.cbw-clan.de/files/hud_jachud.zip
Forum Discussion & Changelog
http://q4max.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=548

miracles HUD

Author
miracle
Version
v1.05 (2006-08-27)
Info & Features
Remake of XelNagas My HUD v999 (You are my hero! <3) including all awesome features
Both health and armorbar sized down to get a "boxed HUD" effect
Removed the current ammo amount (large) at the left bottom of the hud
Replaced it with an "ammobox" around every current ammo amount (q3-style)
Lowered the poweruplist, 1st powerup displayed at the bottom right corner of the viewsize
Changed the powerup font to get it more fitting personally
Love to XelNaga for making the original hud and lava for making it look like it does right now!
Screenshot
External Link
Download
http://home.euphonynet.be/miracle/files/Q4/huds/miracleHUD/plan/hud_mir.pk4
Forum Discussion
http://www.q4max.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=948

vrsHUD

Author
vib|viRus
Version
v1.01 (2006-08-23)
Info & Features
Remake of miracles HUD including all awesome features (0.76 compatible)
Replaced and sized up the lower weaponlist to the left corner of the viewsize
Weaponlist boxes got their extra weaponicon to get it more fitting
Sized up the colored current ammo amount along with the health and armor
hud_timer and teamoverlay sizes changed to fit my personal desire
All fonts changed to "chain" to give the complete hud an extra dimension
Love to miracle for making the original hud and getting this one out to the public for you precious quakers!
Screenshot
External Link
Download
http://home.euphonynet.be/miracle/files/Q4/huds/vrsHUD/v1/vrshud.pk4
Forum Discussion
http://www.q4max.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1456