By the way Voloder, yahud uses a custom bg for hudkillstreaknotice located in replay/thumbnails and I've seen it get blocked. Although I think I've only seen it get blocked when the killstreak pops up while you're in spectate because it shows up farther down on the screen.

That is pretty cool. I like the idea

If you just want a box, you can also just add an image panel

Edit: Actually, does that box shrink to reflect how much bonus health you have?

Actually I think I happen to have that font right here

I don't see why you would need separate vtfs in my opinion. Sounds like it's just preference to me though.

He was talking about the overheal cross, not the regular health cross. Although it should still run the event to shrink and expand your custom vtf image as long as you just replace the one used in the hudplayerhealth.res file.

Well I know that a lot of servers block the use of certain custom vtfs which I think is why many hud creators have switched to using font symbols instead for some of their hud elements. So I'm not sure how well having all custom vtfs would work. I would like to get a second opinion on this though if anyone else has experienced problems with custom vtfs.

As far as I know, I don't think you can. It shrinks according to how much health you have, and I don't see any way to edit that in the hudanimations file.

I don't see why not. Although you might run into the same problem I did when I tried to change the bgcolor of the default vtf for the health cross. The entire square image changed color instead of just the cross itself.

Could you show me a picture of that working? I see no change. And if you change bgcolor or fgcolor in the hudplayerhealth.res file, it just changes the whole square image, not just the cross alone.

Edit: pwny_, that quote from your thread is an explanation of how that person thought you could change the deathwarning color of the cross, which I think is the incorrect way. The correct way to change that was stated by Rawr in his post.

It's a vtf called health_over_bg.vtf. You can find what vtf's are used by looking at what image is used in PlayerStatusHealthBonusImage:

"PlayerStatusHealthBonusImage"
	{
		"ControlName"	"ImagePanel"
		"fieldName"		"PlayerStatusHealthBonusImage"
		"xpos"			"33"	
		"ypos"			"33"
		"zpos"			"2"
		"wide"			"64" //64
		"tall"			"64" //64
		"visible"		"0"
		"enabled"		"1"
		"image"			"../hud/health_over_bg" //<-------------this is the vtf
		"scaleImage"	"1"	

		"xpos_minmode"	"20"
		"ypos_minmode"	"20"
		"wide_minmode"	"52"
		"tall_minmode"	"51"
	}

So you could either edit the vtf, or you could create your own cross out of image panels and animate them in hudanimations_tf.txt under the HudHealthBonusPulse event. You'll also have to remove whatever default animation is there for it already as well.

Actually I think for the damage that appears over your opponent's head you would have to change the value of delta_lifetime to 0 like this:

"CDamageAccountPanel"
	{
		"fieldName"				"CDamageAccountPanel"
		"text_x"				"0"
		"text_y"				"0"
		"delta_item_end_y"		"0"
		"PositiveColor"			"HealColor"
		"NegativeColor"			"DamageColor"
		"delta_lifetime"		"0" //will not appear on screen 
		"delta_item_font"		"FuturaHeavyOutline20"
		"delta_item_font_big"	"FuturaHeavyOutline20"
	}

In the resource/ui directory in your hud folder there is a file called HudDamageAccount.res. Change the CDamageAccountValue xpos and ypos. You might also have CDamageAccountValueShadow or something named similar if you have a drop shadow effect for the damage text. That is normally one pixel over and down, so change that accordingly as well.

I don't know if you've noticed or not, but when you choose your class in game, the character models seem to look a little low res. If you add "render_texture" "0" under tfplayermodel in ClassSelection.res, it fixes it.

"TFPlayerModel"
{
	"ControlName"	"CTFPlayerModelPanel"
	"fieldName"		"TFPlayerModel"

	"xpos"			"300"
	"ypos"			"0"
	"zpos"			"-10"		
	"wide"			"300"
	"tall"			"300"

	"autoResize"	"0"
	"pinCorner"		"0"
	"visible"		"1"
	"enabled"		"1"

	"render_texture" "0"
	"fov"			"25"
	"allow_rot"		"0"

Before

http://i.imgur.com/f9YFYmP.png

After

http://i.imgur.com/AvfjhpN.png

You'll probably have to maximize the images to see the difference.

So you were able to change the opacity using a different .vtf file?

Edit: Oh, the color_panel_red.vtf file?

The zpos for mainbg is -1 by default and does allow the playercount to overlap it.