dl link? good stuff thanks

Ok, look. I feel like I didn´t add enough features that I came up with on my own to justify calling it a 'release' instead of a customization or even ripoff so I´ll probably stick to this thread. I also feel like I wouldn´t have the time or knowledge to support a proper release atm so there´s that. But thanks for the suggestion! :)

why cant more people think like you

where is this beautiful hud located?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/24ez4jj5zchka6e/kn_edit.rar I think this is it, was towards the top of this page.

Thanks:)

Minimal FluxHUD, finally ready!
I will update it in case updates break it, but I won't be doing any big changes to it anymore.

BIG THANK YOUS:
Flux for letting me use his HUD as the basis for my version.
Donttouchmyfrog for helping me A LOT with HUDs.
Zetorri for testing and reporting bugs and bad design.
People for actually using it!

SCREENIES

DOWNLOAD

(It's actually a modification of mainly the old FluxHUD, made a minimal version out of it.)
Hope ya'll like it!

some things I've been messing with on my hud

http://i.imgur.com/TPvyzbE.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/sGc8y99.jpg

Looks pretty phenomenal.

http://i.imgur.com/HeQCaqX.jpg

Moved around the Charge Meter on bw to make it look more like notoHUD

http://i.imgur.com/sZAfKj4.jpg

And I made the main scoreboard 9v9 since I play HL the most

I dig

I like that charge meter, i didnt like the other one

I'm quite happy with flatHUD, but I still like playing around with it, so I made some modifications based on things from other huds.

http://i.imgur.com/vaW1siP.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/XBHNVm1.jpg

Loading screen background is animated: http://imgur.com/25S69B6

Another thing I did was replace the numbers on the backpack page buttons with symbols, but I'm not happy with it yet because the selected page is not highlighted and you can't actually click the buttons anymore since they are overlayed by the icons (mouseover while holding an item still works though): http://imgur.com/i1bXPsB
Is there a way to change the font of the numbers and/or to make an ImagePanel click-through?

http://i.imgur.com/iU1o4Vl.jpg

Personal edit of targetid. I dont like long medigun names.

http://i.imgur.com/ybXg7P0.jpg

Finalised scoreboard but still not happy with it.

The middle line is for positioning purposes

Suyo, you've outplayed me. How did you have the patience to make that lovely loading screen? I'd love to incorporate it into flathud.

I like that scoreboard

This HUD looks awesome. Can I get a download for this? Interested in messing around with it myself.

god dayum that is beautiful can i get a DL?

on the topic of loading screens, how exactly do i get the gif.vtf to play when a map is loading?
i have the file, i just don't know what to do to implement it into my hud

Yeah, an actual tutorial from someone would be awesome. I tried it and the texture just came up black for me so I obviously fucked up somewhere.

i looked into the vmt of collycat's gif in his hud and i found this

"UnlitGeneric"
{
   "$baseTexture" "vgui/replay/thumbnails/gif1blah"
   "$vertexcolor" 		1 
   "$vertexalpha" 		1 
   "$nolod" 			1
   "$translucent" 1
   "Proxies"
   {
      "AnimatedTexture"
      {
         "animatedtexturevar" "$basetexture"
         "animatedtextureframenumvar" "$frame"
         "animatedtextureframerate" "31"
      }
   }
}

Should I say anything

EDIT:The flag of the gif itself is eight bit alpha, format is dxt5,10 mipmaps,width is 512, height is 256

EDIT EDIT: I have no idea what the fuck that means

-code snip-

So, in VTFEdit, you import every single frame of the gif before converting to .vtf? Can you even import more than one image at a time?

Glad I can be of help for once.

1) The first step is to go here and click the download link to get "Evanolds GIF Frame Extractor" which will extract the frames of your GIF to a folder of your choice.

2) After downloading, click "open" to load a GIF you whish to extract. Afterwards, click on "save all" to save the single frames to a specified folder, I chose the PNG format to do this.

3) The next step is to open VTFEdit. Click on "File" -> "Import" and go to the folder that has the extracted frames of your GIF in it. Click STRG+A or just select all your frames and click "Ok". When all images have been loaded, go to "File" -> "Save As" and save the GIF as a VTF of your choice.
Put the VTF file into your materials\vgui\replay\thumbnails folder.

4) Open a text editor of your choice and paste the following code in:

"UnlitGeneric"
{
   "$baseTexture" "vgui/replay/thumbnails/NAMEOFYOURVTF"
   "$vertexcolor" 		1 
   "$vertexalpha" 		1 
   "$nolod" 			1
   "$translucent" 1
   "Proxies"
   {
      "AnimatedTexture"
      {
         "animatedtexturevar" "$basetexture"
         "animatedtextureframenumvar" "$frame"
         "animatedtextureframerate" "26"
      }
   }
}

Save the file as the same filename as your VTF, only this time as a .VMT file. Make sure to fit NAMEOFYOURVTF to the name of your used VTF file. You can adjust the speed of which your GIF/VTF will play by changing the number behind "animatedtextureframerate". Put this VMT file in the same folder to your VTF file you made earlier.

5) Go into your resource\ui folder and open a file called "StatSummary.res". I don´t really know exactly what I did here, so I hit my head repeatedly against the keyboard until it worked somehow.

Anyways, you should now be looking at something like this:

Note the "}". Go there, make a new line and paste the following:

"TheNameOfThisDoesntMatter"
	{
		"ControlName"		"ScalableImagePanel"
		"fieldName"		"maw4qtw4nu_image"
		"xpos"		"c-70"
		"ypos"		"200"
		"zpos"		"3"
		"wide"		"205"
		"tall"		"105"
		"autoResize"	"0"
		"pinCorner"		"0"
		"visible"		"1"
		"enabled"		"1"
		"image"			"replay/thumbnails/cat1"

		"src_corner_height"	"0"
		"src_corner_width"	"0"
		"draw_corner_width"	"0"	
		"draw_corner_height" "0"	
		"scaleImage"		"1"
	}	

I have my VTF file named "cat1" but your filename probably differs. Change it to the name of your VTF you created earlier.

6) This shit´s important, yo: apparently, TF2 loads in two steps. The first one should be where it downloads maps and tries to get the connection and stuff. The second one is where it shows you the mapname, locates the casuals and mentally prepares you for the upcoming asskicking. This means that you can choose two different VTFs to load or just your VTF at normal speed and the second one at a drastically higher speed. (This is what I did, the process is the same as getting two different VTFs to load.)

For the second VTF to load (otherwise it just shows stats or a blank screen if that´s what you prefer), scroll further down past something like this:

"MapInfo"
	{
		"ControlName"	"EditablePanel"
		"fieldName"	"MapInfo"
		"xpos"		"0"
		"ypos"		"0"
        "zpos"          "202"
		"wide"		"f0"
		"tall"		"480"
		"visible"	"0"
		"enabled"	"1"
		"bgcolor_override"	

		"Background"
		{
			"ControlName"	"ImagePanel"
			"fieldName"		"Background"
			"xpos"			"0"
			"ypos"			"9999"
			"wide"			"640"
			"tall"			"480"
			"visible"		"1"
			"enabled"		"1"
			"image"			""
			"scaleImage"	"1"
		}

Paste the same "TheNameOfThisDoesntMatter" part after this one and fit your filename again. Now you only need to fit the background (did anyone else notice a slight RGB shift of like -2 +1 -3? Might just be my monitor calibration) and you should be set.

thanks for all of your help! im just wondering how to edit the loading screen itself, or how to put the gif.vtf and gif.vmt into the loading screens.

i've got the process down, but photoshop is putting a limit on how big my gifs can be. this was the best i could get. when i run tf2, even with maxquality, its really low-res. any help guys?

Give this one a try. Fit the size in the .res file until it isn´t blurred anymore.

If you´d like something different tough, you could also try this or this one.

WhiteHUD alpha

It's actually based off yaHUD's loading screen, I just edited the colors, fonts and positions and added the BG.

Will upload all of this later today when I get home (and remember) - might need some edits though if you don't flatHUD, it's based of that and it's fonts

EDIT:
Loading Screen: https://www.dropbox.com/s/8mv3xr4be8674fn/flatHUD_SuyoooLoadingScreen.zip
The animated texture is actually a lot smaller when compressed. Still not optimal, I'll try something to reduce texture size later
Class Selection: https://www.dropbox.com/s/17xxbcofzjkeq15/flatHUD_SuyoooClassSelection.zip
MvM upgrade icons are not in the right place because I never play it and was too lazy, though.

see, i started with that gif. i thought the gifs had to take up the whole screen, that's why i stretched it out to 16:9 and was trying to make it like 1920x1080 or something. ill try editing statsummary.res later today and see how that goes.