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Nice, it works !

By the way is it possible to change the color of the numbers from red to say yellow in some easy way ?

You can by editing the HudDamageAccount.res file whereas “PositiveColor” and “NegativeColor” is your colour, “delta_lifetime” is the fade time, “delta_item_font” & “delta_item_font_big” is the font.Not sure if every custom hud has that file though I used NeoN’s hud which has.

Red Green Blue and Alpha ? Whats this colour ? I want it Yellow, pls someone help me :D

Viq, could you post what we talked about last night? For people without custom/m0re’s hud.

Does anyone know how I can make the damage show up in a tiny font underneath my crosshair?

Just tick the box in multiplayer > advanced options?

Does anyone know how I can make the damage show up in a tiny font underneath my crosshair?

http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/3259/damagenumbers.png

"Resource/UI/HudDamageAccount.res"
{
"CDamageAccountPanel"
{
"fieldName" "CDamageAccountPanel"
"text_x" "0"
"text_y" "0"
"delta_item_end_y" "0"
"PositiveColor" "255 255 0 255"
"NegativeColor" "255 255 0 255"
"delta_lifetime" "0"
"delta_item_font" "HudFontMediumSmall"
"delta_item_font_big" "HudFontMediumSmall"
}

"DamageAccountValueBG"
{
"ControlName" "CTFLabel"
"fieldName" "DamageAccountValue"
"xpos" "c-10"
"ypos" "c+12"
"zpos" "1"
"wide" "22"
"tall" "8"
"visible" "1"
"enabled" "1"
"labelText" "%metal%"
"textAlignment" "left"
"fgcolor" "0 0 0 255"
"font" "HudFontMediumSmallBold"
}
}

I was gone for a few weeks around xmas so chances are that you figured this out already, but I’ll share it with you anyway just in case. I modified Extremer’s file to fit Koeitje’s request as that’s what I had in mind myself.

There seems to be some confusion among some about how this works. From what i can tell from playing around with it tonight:

CDamageAccountPanel, DamageAccountValue and DamageAccountValueBG refer to the the entities of damage numbers, our custom damage value and it’s background respectively. The CDamageAccountPanel must be present in hudlayout.res in addition to the file above for it to work and the command “hud_combattext” must be set to 1 in the config file to allow our custom damage number to access the data we seek to present. The popup damage numbers can instead be disabled entirely by setting “delta_item_end_y” to zero if desired. The entities are limited by commands “wide” and “tall” denoting the sideleghts in pixels. The contents of the entity will not scale to fit, you have to ensure that they are large enough to contain whatever you intend. Their positions are specified with the xpos and ypos commands, i.e. their horisontal and vertical coordiates in a raster with the width and length corresponding to the screen resolution. I have so far seen 3 argument patterns:

xpos x
x pixels from left side of screen

ypos x
x pixels from top of screen

xpos rx
x pixels from right side of screen

ypos rx
x pixels from bottom of screen

xpos c+x (c-x)
center of screen and x pixels to the right (left)

ypos c+x (c-x)
center of screen and x pixels to downwards (upwards)

An object with zpos with value x overlaps another object with value y if x greater than y. The entities can be aligned with textAlignment command give eigher left right or center as argument.

Example:
DamageAccountValue is a left aligned box of height 8 and width 22 with coordinates (c+11,c-11) containing text of the font HudFontMediumSmallBold.

The DamageAccountValueBG is just a DamageAccountValue in black placed beneath and slightly to the right to serve as a shadow. I use left alignment since the minus sign would otherwise jump around to much, and centering gave varying positions depending on the number of digits displayed.

What I haven’t yet understod is how this file is called and how DamageAccountValue knows what to display. Could anyone please explain this?
I’m also a bit confused about PositiveColor, can you do positive damage???

NOTE: This code is made for 640×480 resolution, if you have a different one you have to adjust the parameters yourself to reach the same result. If so, I suggest you take the following approach:

Start off with Extremer’s original code and play around with different fonts and sizes until you find the one of your liking. Get the maximum amount of text by doing over 100 points of damage so that you see how big your entity will be. Adjust the size of the entity to the size of the text and after that position it as you like it. It is helpful to use windowed mode while you do this as you will be going back and forth between the game and your text editor a lot. You should also know that you can reload your changes in game by typing hud_reloadscheme into the console and thereby avoid having to restart for changes to take effect.

GL

Thanks for sharing Link. I’ll tinker with what you posted, nice idea with the color fadeout.