Version 3.9 is out!

It includes the following changes:

-Added in support for the new backpack UI.
-Fixed the screen lagging when changing pages in the backpack.
-Fixed the loading spinners in the backpack not working properly.
-Added in a more customizable loadout screen.
-Bolded the closed captions font for readability.
-Converted a few missing HUD elements over to the HUD's font. (Mostly SourceMod stuff)
-Changed the color of all SourceMod text back to yellow/orange from magenta. (Sorry!)
-Fixed a bug relating to the IntroMenu.res when you first joined a server.
-Added in support for the Battalion's Backup/Buff Banner icons on the player HUD.

You can download it here:

https://github.com/raysfire/rayshud/archive/262f96ba8209bedc2872257621160c0ed5df5853.zip

Or via the installer by Tree:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/18079550/rayshudinstaller1.5.zip

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The new loadout screen:

http://puu.sh/7T2d9

Info about this/how it works:

-First off, the team colored buttons are controlled via a console command that requires sv_cheats be enabled, so unless you're in a local server or not in one at all, the team colored buttons will not work.

-Secondly, if you're confused as to how to control the new free-cam/free rotation, here are some brief instructions on how to use it:

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The new backpack UI:

http://puu.sh/7T2bY

Info about the new UI:

While on the stock HUD the prev/next page buttons were removed, I thought it was a nice feature, so in addition to implementing their new numerical way of navigating the backpack, I went ahead and implemented their new UI alongside their old UI, that way you can pick whichever one you like better.

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Screenshot of the new closed captions font:

http://puu.sh/7T2iu

Hey there,

Recently I've found out that if you try to view a stream via the list on this webpage:

http://teamfortress.tv/streams

The person's stream you choose only works properly if their name on the stream list matches their twitch name, however if you try to visit their stream via the links section in the upper right of the website, it works fine.

For instance, clicking on "Melon" on the stream list takes me to http://teamfortress.tv/stream/melon, which then tries to load the video from the twitch account of "Melon" on Twitch, whereas clicking on the same stream on the sidebar takes me to http://teamfortress.tv/stream/melonhl, which is what her name actually is on twitch, which works fine.

It's not too big of a deal but I figured I should at least mention it to you. I'd assume it's a pretty easy fix.

Thanks. :>

What Goat_ means is that you have to open up ClientScheme.res, find the font definition at the very top of the fonts section labeled "default", and change the font/size there.

So for my HUD it looks like this:

http://puu.sh/7PXaz.png

Hey there, I'm not at my computer at the moment but if you need more help feel free to shoot me a PM here on tf.tv.

Three things to note about .vtfs:

First off, they will automatically scale to the nearest resolution that's a power of two (2x2, 4x4, 64x64, 512x512, etc.), so if you want to make sure your image isn't stretched/compressed, make sure that the custom vtf you're editing is an exact power of 2. It's okay if there's a lot of blank/transparent space as long as you save it as a .png image file before you convert it to a .vtf (and all of the space was transparent when it was a .png).

Second, in order to preserve quality, you have to make sure that the image file you want to convert to vtf has the "No Level of Detail" option checked in it. I can't remember exactly where you do this, but the option should be somewhere within VTFEdit, assuming that's what you're using.

and finally, you have to have a corresponding .vmt file to go alongside it, but seeing as you already have it in the game, I don't think that's you're issue.

I'd double check my quality options again if I were you, because I ran into an issue similar to yours and found out I had both the quality setting incorrect as well as the incorect image resolution.

http://www.twitch.tv/raysfire/c/3948458

As far as I know, there's no possible way to make a HUD have a team-colored text character, as all text is just defined by either an RGBA color value or a color definition in ClientScheme.res (which is also just an RGBA color value), which is just a static value, nothing that can ever be changed without the help of a hud animation.

You can, however, define a team-colored box/shape via ImagePanels.

I think what you're thinking of is in a HUD like PVHUD that has a shadow underneath the main number. The reason you might've thought that it was team-colored at the time is that due to a bug in TF2, sometimes the low health animation gets stuck on the screen, displaying the color that the HUD normally changes to when you have low health, all the time. Since PVHUD's is red I believe, then if you were playing on the red team at the time that you got that bug, then it might've appeared as if the health number was team-colored.

There's the issue - The resource/scripts/materials folders only need to be in one rayshud folder, not RaysHUD\rayshud, so it should look something like this:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Team Fortress 2\tf\custom\RaysHUD

or

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Team Fortress 2\tf\custom\rayshud

Tree's been extremely busy these past few months, as he's currently working two jobs full-time and trying to finish his degree. However, that being said, he's actually recently began active development on it again over the past week or so, so assuming all goes well, we're looking at releasing sooner rather than later.

To everyone else:

I'm sorry for the lack of updates recently. I have an update that's almost ready to be pushed out (and has been for some time), but I've been putting all my attention into helping get the extv hud finished. Fortunately I was able to get the majority of the extv hud done yesterday though, so I should be able to return to regular development/updates and get the new release out soon.

However, since I haven't officially released yet, if any of you have any bugs you'd like to see get fixed in this next update, let me know! I can't fix them if I'm not aware they exist.

Hey guys, a bit of a followup on this. I went ahead and bought the i5-4670k and the Z87-UD3H, and upon doing a benchmark test (http://teamfortress.tv/forum/thread/7598-tf2-benchmarks/1) to see how much of a difference there was in performance, here's a comparison of my old hardware and my new hardware:

With my FX-8350 (OC'ed @ 4.2GHz per core), H80i liquid cooling, and a GTX 680, this was my FPS on average:

2639 frames 25.047 seconds 98.36 fps ( 9.49 ms/f) 6.850 fps variability

With my new i5-4670k @ stock speeds (3.4GHz per core), stock cooling, and a GTX 680 (without drivers), this was my new FPS on average:

2639 frames 18.277 seconds 144.39 fps ( 6.93 ms/f) 7.608 fps variability

So if you're looking/thinking about switching from AMD to Intel and are unsure of whether or not there will be a performance increase, I can assure you that there will be one.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19762650/rayseditedskin.rar

If you want it to not say "Rays" on the pass/fail scorebar, edit the "scorebar-colour.png". Also, apologizes on the volume of the stream - My OBS settings are optimized for TF2 and I always forget to adjust the volume when I play osu.

If you need anything else, feel free to shoot me a PM on here; my mistake for not already having a link to my skin download on my twitch profile.

Sorry guys. :<

Hey guys, with the recent influx of questions regarding hud customization, I figured I'd launch a new series on my YouTube channel on how to make a hud from scratch. I've done six videos so far and put out at least two a week. (Usually Tues/Thurs)

Even if you're not making a hud on your own and would instead just like to customize yours a bit more/change around a few things, I feel like these videos might still be of use to you. I tried to make the video titles as relevant as possible as to what content is covered within them so that if you just wanted to change a particular section of your hud or already have some basic knowledge, you can skip around easily without too much effort.

Thanks ahead of time for checking them out, here's the playlist link:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5eNrB8RrXXuV3P1nv6NnwF-tCL_KnJIs

New update should be coming out soon guys; have a few cool things to add in and a few bug fixes. Also, apologies on the slow development time of the installer - Tree's been swamped with work so he hasn't been able to fully train me to support/improve the installer on my own yet, but hopefully that'll happen over the next few weeks.

Hey, raiku is probably right about the ammo thing - I guess because you're playing on a resolution that I didn't fully optimize for (1280x800), it's more than possible that the panel containing the ammo count is a bit messed up due to how your aspect ratio handles the hud frame sizes.

As for the closed captions, I'm not entirely sure why those are like that, but I have a hunch; I might've accidentally gotten the font definitions for closed captions in the minmode version of the hud mixed with those for the regular version. Regardless, I'll either have completely new closed captions, or at least fixed ones for the minmode version of the hud, in my next hud update. Sorry for the inconvenience.

While the FPS drop I get while streaming is actually pretty minimal, because the FX-8350 has such poor single-core performance and the source engine only utilizes 2 out of the 8 cores to begin with, my FPS isn't all that high even when I'm not streaming.

http://www.cpu-world.com/benchmarks/AMD/FX-8350_single.html

Did a bit more research and found that I could get the i5-4670k and the Z87-UD3H for ~$350 on Amazon, so I think that'll be my best bet.

Again, I appreciate all of the input guys. Assuming everything goes well and all that, I might be selling my FX-8350 in a few weeks to someone who might be able to make better use of it and appreciate it a bit more than I did. It still worked more than okay for just playing the game; it just didn't ever seem to be quite at the level I was looking for when I was streaming.

I could try a reformat; but as I said above I've always averaged about this. I suppose I could check to make sure everything is mounted/installed properly within the case, though. I'll have to check that out.

I actually had the game on an SSD for awhile, but moved it off because demos/custom maps were eating all of the space on it. The only difference I noticed when I took it off was longer load times, no visible boost in performance.

As for whether or not I'd overclock, I suppose I probably would - I have a decent cooler, so it'd be silly to not put it to use. However, from my attempts to OC my 8350 I could never get a stable OC, so maybe there's an issue with my cooler of some sort?

Thanks for the quick input, guys!

Games that are more GPU intensive, (Planetside 2, Just Cause 2, etc.) are all fine for the most part. Also I'll go ahead and do those things, but I've been getting this type of performance since day 1; I'm sure that a defrag + clean will help things a bit; but I don't think I've ever had consistently over 200fps unless I was in a surf/jump server.