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I edited some lines In the HUD, munged a new Ingame, put that .lvl In Gamedata/addon/***/data/Lvlpc, and I got this. Looks like the weapon area was duplicated and flipped... Strange, no? All I did was edit a few color lines.
Lua excerpt: Ingame.req: Anyone have an answer to this? Thanks.

The issue is that you are loading the stock HUD(well, actually the 1.2 patch HUD) and your custom HUD. There is no fix, the only way to get around this is to not load the stock ingame.lvl, which involves making a brand new, full ingame.lvl of your own.

So....load up the stock HUD meshs then?

Cerfon Rournes wrote:So....load up the stock HUD meshs then?

THEWULFMAN wrote:There is no fix, the only way to get around this is to not load the stock ingame.lvl, which involves making a brand new, full ingame.lvl of your own.

I'm sorry..but I'm not getting you. Are you saying to not put ReadDataFile("dc:ingame.lvl") before ReadDataFile("ingame.lvl")? Or, load up the stock HUD meshs...

I apologize for not making it clear.

Loading the stock Ingame.lvl ((ReadDataFile(ingame.lvl")) loads the stock HUD files, when you add the ReadDataFile("dc:ingame.lvl"), you load your new HUD, however, it does not override the old one, it simply adds the new one on top of the old one.


Because of this, the only way to have a custom HUD is to make a complete ingame.lvl and only load your new one, but not load the old stock ingame.lvl

I hope its a bit clearer now.

Thanks for explaining. I'm doing some things to make It work now, so I'll edit this later with results..
EDIT..

We have some problems here..
I got a fresh ingame.req, added my things, and munged. Now, with just..: That^ In the Lua, the game crashes, with no Sev 3's. When I put...: That^ In the Lua, the game loads and runs, with the stock HUD. Problem Is, none of my changes are visible.
I have no clue what Is going on right now..Anyway, I'll do a manual clean just to check.
Ingame.req: EDIT
Did a manual clean..no change...

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that making a full ingame.lvl is nigh impossible. I think Zerted knows how to do it, Repsharpshooter did as well.



Just because I told you the solution, I didnt say that the solution was possible.

as far as i know you can make a custom global ingame.lvl by getting all the entrys from the original ingame.lvl and putting them in your ingame.req.

Would I need to hex-edit for that?..

I don't have any experience building custom HUDs, but you should to uninstall any shell mods (v1.3) when building your own, complete lvls. The ingame.req from BF2_ModTools/data/Common should be fine.

Repsharpshooter knows HUDs best. Have you searched the forum and FAQ for HUD topics?

Post your error log anyway.

Sorry that it took me so long to respond. I did search for everything on HUDs. I did not however uninstall v1.3. I'll try that soon.
Current error log: I got a red line that said something like,'Your post has too many characters" When I tried to put the entire thing, so here are the parts that show up the most. Like 100 of that^ EDIT
I removed the v1.3 hud, but I still have two duplicate huds. Ideas?
The game still crashes if I put: In the LUA. If I put.. It works fine, but with the duplicated huds. I did use the ingame.req from the folder Zerted mentioned.
EDIT2
Current ingame.req:

its impossible to modify the hud through a local ingame.lvl, th icons will either be duplicated or not modified. all you can do is replace he global ingame.lvl but then it will loose the 1.3 patch features...a real bummer

That is fine. How do I do it?

you mean how to replace the global ingame.lvl? you rename the ingame.lvl in gamedata\lvl_pc\ and paste yours in there.
if you keep everything in the ingame.lvl thats in your maps lvl_pv folder, it will work.

That worked, thanks. I have a custom hud fully working. However, I have one question. Doing that removed the mini map (m key). Anyone know why this happened?/How it can be fixed?
EDIT
Just ran bf2 log, got many of these.. Any clue about that?

as far as i remember i didnt get these when replacing the ingame.lvl and the minimap worked normally. what changes did you make to the hudfiles and did you remove anything from the ingame.req?

I didn't make any changes that edited the mini map In the .hud files. (I did change a great deal of other stuff tho ) The only thing I took out of the ingame.req was the fakeconsole line.
Ingame Lua As you can see, the mus1_map texture is not showing up.