Custom_HUD_support.md

#Custom HUD support Adding Biglobby support to HUD mods is easy and should work great with or without the biglobby mod enabled. You can patch your HUD mod with info below or reach out to the mod author to update their mod. Again these changes should be safe improvements with no negative effects.

PD:TH Hud

Already updated to support BigLobby :)

GitHub LastBullet

CompactHUD

Newer versions of this HUD should have dynamic support built in. The Chat UI needs to be moved if you want to read chat with large lobbies however.

Hudmanager.lua - HUDManager:_create_teammates_panel

Set the panel height correctly for vertical stack of panels, otherwise clipping occurs.

Original:

local h = self:teampanels_height()

Fix:

local h = 24 * HUDManager.PLAYER_PANEL

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Hudmanager.lua - HUDManager:_create_teammates_panel

Replace hardcoded 4 value with a variable.

Original:

for i = 1, 4 do

Fix:

for i = 1, HUDManager.PLAYER_PANEL do

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Hudmanager.lua - HUDManager:_create_teammates_panel

Replace hardcoded values 4 and 3 with a variable.

Original:

local small_gap = (teammates_panel:w() - player_gap - teammate_w * 4) / 3

Fix:

local small_gap = (teammates_panel:w() - player_gap - teammate_w * HUDManager.PLAYER_PANEL) / (HUDManager.PLAYER_PANEL - 1)

MUI

MUI source is a bit hard to read/follow, so there may be some code that still needs to be adjusted. Let me know and I'll add any additional fixes here.

mui_manager.lua - HUDManager:_create_teammates_panel

Replace hardcoded 4 value with a variable. Original:

for i = 1, 4 do

Fix:

for i = 1, HUDManager.PLAYER_PANEL do

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mui_manager.lua - MUITeammate.align_panels

Fix alignment issue. Using gap setting would adjust panels around the 4th panel.

Original:

local totWidth = MUITeammate._muiGap * 3;

Fix:

local totWidth = MUITeammate._muiGap * (HUDManager.PLAYER_PANEL - 1);

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mui_manager.lua - MUITeammate.align_panels

Remove hardcoded limit to support additional panels.

Original:

for i = 4, 1, -1 do
    local matePanel = teamPanel:child("" .. (Order and 5 - i or i));
-- further down
for i = 4, 1, -1 do

Fix:

for i = HUDManager.PLAYER_PANEL, 1, -1 do
    local matePanel = teamPanel:child("" .. (Order and (HUDManager.PLAYER_PANEL + 1) - i or i));
-- further down
for i = HUDManager.PLAYER_PANEL, 1, -1 do

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mui_team.lua - MUITeammate:init

Assign correct colours. Use size of chat_colors table instead of a hardcoded value.

Original:

local crim_color = tweak_data.chat_colors[5-i];

Fix:

local crim_color = tweak_data.chat_colors[#tweak_data.chat_colors-i];

HoloHUD

I have this mostly working, seems to be a slight issue with how panels are laid out that has caused some clipping on the UI panels.

HUDMissionBriefing.lua - HUDMissionBriefing:init

Replace hardcoded 4 values with a variable. text_font_size * 8 is just double the original * 4 value.

Add the following line at the start of the function:

local num_player_slots = BigLobbyGlobals and BigLobbyGlobals:num_player_slots() or 4

Original:

h = text_font_size * 8

Fix:

h = text_font_size * (num_player_slots * 2)

Original:

for i = 1, 4 do

Fix:

for i = 1, num_player_slots do

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hudlootscreen.lua - HUDLootScreen:init

Replace hardcoded 4 value with a variable.

Add the following line at the start of the function:

local num_player_slots = BigLobbyGlobals and BigLobbyGlobals:num_player_slots() or 4

Original:

for i = 1, 4 do
    self:create_peer(self._peers_panel, i)
end

Fix:

for i = 1, num_player_slots do
    self:create_peer(self._peers_panel, i)
end

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hudlootscreen.lua - HUDLootScreen:set_num_visible, HUDLootScreen:clear_other_peers, HUDLootScreen:check_all_ready

Replace hardcoded 4 values with a variable.

Add the following line at the start of each function:

local num_player_slots = BigLobbyGlobals and BigLobbyGlobals:num_player_slots() or 4

And replace:

for i = 1, 4 do

With:

for i = 1, num_player_slots do

Alternatively, the first line could be a HUDLootScreen:num_player_slots() function that is called instead of using a local variable, reducing the copy/paste.