Left 4 Dead 2

Left 4 Dead 2

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Death Overlay Position Tweak (Default HUD)
   
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16 Aug, 2023 @ 3:15am
16 Aug, 2023 @ 10:51pm
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Death Overlay Position Tweak (Default HUD)

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This is a small add-on for Default HUD users, intended to reposition the player's death overlay of the default HUD, to make sure it is consistent with the teammate panel, I am not sure anyone have done this already.

Features:
  • Slightly increased the size of the death overlay, since the player's survivor icon is slightly bigger than the teammate's survivor icon.

    If you are wondering about the scale ratio, it is teammate : player = 35 : 36 based on the survivor icon size on both panels.

  • Positioned the death overlay to make sure the 3 circlish blood splatters overlap the player's survivor icon.

I only modify 1 resource file, I don't edit the death overlay texture, because the teammate panel points to the same file too and I like to make it incompatible-free with other add-ons. I could have made a new death overlay texture for the player because the blood scratch is positioned a bit to the bottom, but I think it is fine looking when I compare it to the teammate panel, it's just that the teammate panel has a name display that make them look good, but the player doesn't.

Note that it will conflict with tomaz's CRHB support for Default HUD and Urik's crosshair support for Default HUD.

If you want to use a custom crosshair from my collection or Qude's collection, you can use either my crosshair support or Urik's alternate crosshair support.

Enjoy, and I guess this is intended because the player panel is so small, but which do you prefer?
5 Comments
ズムイ 3 Aug @ 9:57am 
Can you fix the X on the person who died's healthbar? It is positioned like as if they had a name and it looks wrong and bothers me. Other then that, thank you for making this because I was looking for an addon that would fix this because it bothers me so much seeing in positioned incorrectly. I'm someone who cares about hud and healthbar a lot and looks at them a lot so this really helped me feel better about the default HUD which is my favorite.
arachnidsGrip ★彡 19 Aug, 2023 @ 1:07pm 
now that you've mentioned it i can't unsee it
Interneted  [author] 16 Aug, 2023 @ 10:43pm 
Well, I do. ;)

Turns out I am bad at counting ratios, the values were wrong, need a bit of update.
Xeno :] 16 Aug, 2023 @ 10:24pm 
I just think this doesn't need a fix it's not noticeable anyway *shrug*
Qude 16 Aug, 2023 @ 5:41am 
from my point of view, the local panel's dead overlay is still not accurately positioned, but not bad, after all