@Whisker

Yes!! That is exactly what I'm looking for! I didn't know what to look for and missed the clientscheme. Thank you!

Doing some more digging after confusion, I've realized these attributes are being used:

Button.TextColor
Button.BgColor
Button.ArmedTextColor
Button.ArmedBgColor

instead of the proper Econ.Button options. Anyone know why this is, or how I can fix that?

This means the econ buttons' armed are overwritten by these or the econ's armed attributes are simply broken.

@Wiethoofd

Thank you for your response!

1) Forgive me if I was not clear. this is the panel I am referring to. Modifying anything in MainContainer from ui/econ/questnotificationpanel_base.res had no effect, including the border, text font, or positioning of the notification.

2. Yeah, it's weird. Before asking questions, I usually try to look at a HUD I know has done it before. In this case, RaysHUD has done it, but I still couldn't figure it out for the life of me.

I'm trying to do two things:

1) Edit the contract notification. It's messy and confusing to navigate the /quests folder of the UI. I just want to remove the annoying border/outline on it and change the font.

2) I'm trying to change the loadout A/B/C/D weapons/taunts button colors or even remove their backgrounds. No matter what I've tried, the only overrides I've gotten to work are the outer border color.

Any help with these obstacles is greatly appreciated!

I had this issue for a while. Turns out Valve made a new file for Phlog with JI because it would overlap with Gas Passer. huditemeffectmeter_pyro.res is the new file. Look it up in the default HUD or just copy/paste and rename.

This has plagued me for a while:

itemeffectlabel in huditemeffectmeter isn't rendering as the color I set it to since Jungle Inferno. I also can't create another element because #TF_BALL won't change to SANDVICH or CLOAK or BALL or whatever it should be.

Any workarounds found?

Hey guys, trying to do the replay textures trick. I've never done it before.

I made a new texture at \steamapps\common\Team Fortress 2\tf\materials\vgui\replay\thumbnails called health_modified as a vtf and the corresponding vmt with it.

In spectatorguihealth.res I'm trying to change the off-white gradient health bar's image to something else. This is PlayerStatusHealthImage. I added this line:

"image_override"			"\materials\vgui\replay\thumbnails\health_modified"

and it has no effect. Taking another texture and using that (like "../hud/health_equip_bg") has no effect either.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance!

Alright, now for a question of my own:

In ui\spectatortournament.res, I'm able to adjust the size of the player panels, but the background is automatically resized to the entire thing. Additionally, I cannot adjust the border thickness or make it completely squared off, or anything with something like:

    "src_corner_height" "40"
    "src_corner_width"  "40"
    "draw_corner_width" "0"
    "draw_corner_height"  "0"

I tried something like adding an element "bg" hoping it's just excluded from the files, but editing that doesn't help either. I tried looking at other HUDs that modified it, but I'm not getting anything out of it. I would disable it with "paintborder" "0" but that would mean I can't make a team-colored background since they'd all appear gray since I'm a spectator.

To summarize, I want to do two things to the playerpanels:

1. Change the team-colored background's size independently of the entire playerpanel_kv element
   
2. Change the background's shape to be squared

Anyone able to solve this issue for me? Thanks in advance!

It should be in ui\hudplayerhealth.res. I believe it is PlayerStatusHealthBonusImage, so turning it to enable 0 should disable it. If it does not, also move it to xpos 9999 and ypos 9999 to get it off screen.

If you're not familiar with vgui_drawtree, I suggest looking it up!

Everything selected shows up in the class loadout panel: ui\classloadoutpanel.res. The loadout presets are loadout_preset_panel and the taunt/cosmetic loadout buttons are CharacterLoadoutButton and TauntLoadoutButton respectively.

As I suggested in my first answer, if you're not familiar with vgui_drawtree, please do familiarize yourself with it as it will help you immensely.

You can edit it in ui\hudmatchstatus.res. The names should be relatively self-explanatory, but you might want to start by looking at TeamStatus.

As for offline mode (I presume you mean when playing demos), there's no way to do it, unfortunately. :(

Hey guys, I asked a few days ago for suggestions on how to get some elements to show at will--basically what I was told was to have it recorded in a demo and play the demo back or change the timescale in a server with cheats on. For demos, this means I can just go to the tick(s) the element is visible at and replay it over and over. For timescale, that just allows me to make things happen quicker to get to what I need.

Both of these work great, but demos don't seem to save (or just don't show?) the matchmaking HUD--they look like any random community server pub instead of showing the class icons, respawn times, lights for each win at the top of the screen, etc.

I know this isn't exactly a question about editing HUDs, but it's relevant and a followup; any way I can activate/see this on my own without joining matchmaking... or a way to make the demos save/show it?

As always, thanks again in advance, guys. <3

These suggestions are immensely helpful. Thank you!

Doublepost, but its a day later and irrelevant.

What is the best way to test things that I can't otherwise easily make appear? Such as the winpanel, the mvm mission completion windows, or autobalance window that tells you your new objective? I'd also really rather not sit idle in a server when I work on the comp/casual HUDs.

I'd rather not copypaste them crudely into another location and make them always appear, not to mention there's reasons that may not always work.

Thanks once again in advance. :>

engine open_charinfo

open_charinfo

Simply "open_charinfo"

edit: You're a wizard. Thank you.

How can I make a button (CExImageButton) run a console command (like open_charinfo_direct) instead of its own cryptic commands? Making "open_charinfo_direct" the "command" for a button won't work, though it works in the console.

Thanks in advance!

edit: Alternatively, helping me find out the commands used for the items button, store button, etc would be helpful as they're not in the mainmenuoverride.res... Thanks again!

Aight I got another that's been bugging me:

I can use "teambg_1", "teambg_2", and "teambg_3" to change background images based on the team you're on. How can I change a color (not image) used for text or a solid colored box depending on which team you're on? Is there a way or am I going to have to figure something out in the hud animations and/or making my own images to use as a workaround?

Thanks once again in advance.

Damn you and reading my post before my ninja edit. I misread your post originally leading to that response. Thanks. It helped. :)