the HP and ammo colors seem to be hard to see , maybe add a dropshadow or an outline as a custom option?

I like the killfeed a lot

#2 I personally haven't had a problem with readability, especially since the low/over colors are very vivid. If enough people have a problem with it though I can change it up. A box around the numbers would probably be the easiest solution to ensure perfect readability, I'm not sure an outline would help anymore in the readability of the numbers.

EDIT: Here is a link to an outline version (using the default clientscheme outline). It helps with readability in really light places but looks terrible. I can make this version available if a lot of people like it, or if somebody has a better idea let me know. I'll play around with dropshadow at some point to see.

Health/Ammo readability has been addressed.

#3 Oh, I've since edited the killfeed to invert the bg colors (light is everybody else, dark is you) but was waiting on feedback to see if I should revert back to what is shown in the pictures. If you like the picture color setup you can manually change it by searching for "HudDeathNotice" in scripts/hudlayout.res and inverting the two background color lines (base3<->base03).

Yay finally :D

very original use of colors, looks good but I personally wouldn't use it because of the readability on the health and ammo

edit: I see you have an outlined version now, what you could also do it make 4 dropshadows NE NW SE SW to create the illusion of a smooth outline

it's cute

very nice

i think it looks nice

i'll try it when i get back home

is there no quickplay button on the main menu or did i miss something

No quickplay button currently, but I'll probably end up adding one now that the hud is publicly released. For the time being, you can open it up through console with the command openquickplaydialog.

i didn't know that about the console command for quickplay thank you so much

i can finally use all the non quickplay huds i've wanted to use now

Nice hud.

Some vaporwave shit right here

I'm an idiot and thought you said vaporware

I love the ingames, but the entering a menu without having to dim my monitor is hard

edit: oops dark theme im dumb, thanks its the best i love you

i like the look of this lots

current issues i found (occur even right after git-clone), apologies if they're stuff that's only temporarily broken:

• health/ammo/killfeed don't show for me :c
  
• no quit/disconnect buttons (also quickplay but you mentioned that), probably your choice though and i configured the server buttons to do that
  
• what little info the scoreboard shows is often eclipsed by net_graph for me, i'd recommend lifting it up a bit
  
• killfeed is too big for my liking, i'd prefer it thinner and so it shows more kills

i didn't test it out too much but the main thing that would make me use it was if surf mode was replaced by pub mode, and offered a full scoreboard (including stats) and class select. obviously surf mode was your choice but if you wanna make a more widely appealing branch i'd suggest that

looks like those solar rices on /r/unixporn nice job.

Why the chat modifications? I assume it's for mp_showrespawntimes, but that command has been blocked as a cheat for a while now. Edit: the chat text size is just hugely resolution dependent; pretty much unusable at 640x480, the other modifications are fine.

It's nearly impossible to tell if someone is capping at a x1 pace since you removed the cap image, and no numbers appear for a x1 cap.

There are also a handful of glitches in a 640x480 resolution and/or non-widescreen aspect ratio:

1. Chatbox is too large vertically, barely clips ammo, only fits one line at a time (due to low resolution)

http://imgur.com/tL7yFIn.png

2. Scoreboard playerlists are misaligned and show only 5 players (due to low resolution) [Fix for 640x480]

http://imgur.com/wL08HE9.png

3. KOTH active timer BG doesn't align with timers (due to aspect ratio) [Fix]

http://imgur.com/KxpaBug.png

4. Red team's name label is off-screen (due to aspect ratio) [Fix]

http://imgur.com/ZPAF8L2.png

i like how you make your solarhud logo all colorful but everything is blue and orange in the actual hud

the scoreboard is hard to read, the killfeed is a bit big and the item display boxes are huge

#21

• the scoreboard is hard to read
  
  I agree that the blue side is pretty hard to read sometimes, but fortunately the dead color is noticable enough that I haven't considered it that big of a deal. Honestly, what I would like to do is just change the team colors to the solarized colorscheme but unfortunately tf2 doesn't let you do that. I should send an email or get in contact with people who are in close conversation with the tf2 team and let them know that I (and probably every other hud developer) would greatly appreciate it if we could modify the scoreboard colors.
  
  
• the killfeed is a bit big
  
  If you aren't using 1920x1080 I can understand where you are coming from. If you are then I don't know what to say, I like how the killfeed looks.
  
  
• the item display boxes are huge
  
  Somebody else mentioned this to me earlier but I dismissed it. Since you also raised the same issue I looked at the files and apparently the default ones were modified a while ago to shrink the inspect panel and reduce the amount of extraneous information. I just pushed a commit that merges these changes into my hud so now they "should" take up no more space than the default ones. I'm pretty happy with how they look, about the only thing I need to do is change the font and the text color, but those are far more minor changes. I also need to figure out how to make the inspect panel above the chat, because when there is chat history it is placed on top of the panel making is hard to read. I may end up moving it to the left side if I can't figure something out.

I really like the general layout, excited to see how the dark version turns out, if it alleviates some of the vision issues I'll def. be using this hud.

It does get pushed slightly to the left when capping more than x1, so there might be some way to push it completely off the control point. Another suggestion might be to change the icon; maybe a smaller or less opaque image would be a better fit.

I tried doing a standard 4 (and 8) point text duplication for the outline, but unfortunately tf2 didn't take too kindly with pixel movements (wasn't a smooth outline) and tf2 doesn't properly handle this method for ammo (ammo with a clip and ammo without a clip are handled properly but the outline elements remain). That leaves a drop shadow as the only viable alternative.

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

I am extremely happy how this turned out and if there aren't any objections I am planning on merging this into the master branch as well.

Looks good, how can I get this version?

I think it is apparent that everyone is happy with the change so I'll merge the change in right now. In the future, I'll try to keep experimental changes on the testing branch (which is where it was located before I just pushed it to the master branch). You can change branches by clicking the dropdown for branches in the upper left.

#28 You switch the xpos, ypos, wide, and tall values with their _minmode variants inside of scoreboard.res. I think the only elements that you need to modify are mainbg and red/blueplayerlist.

Dark Theme is here! Screenshots, also linked in the main post. I tried to mirror them as close as I could with the light theme screenshots. Please let me know if something isn't colored properly, light instead of dark, etc.

Up on tap next (provided there aren't any current issues) is fixing up the hud for non-1920x1080 resolutions. I will be making a poll to figure out what resolutions are most used and start from there.