Displaying Hud Without suit? Created 18 years ago2006-09-18 07:51:22 UTC by VortigauntSlave

Im creating a Single Player mod called Forces of Conflict (maybe more info later) but im having some trouble. Is there anyway to display the HUD on the screen without having to pick up the suit? Because i dont want all the HEV sounds being played when the player takes damage and as soon as the map starts i dont want all the "Welcome to the HEV Mark IV...." stuff. Basically is there any way to stop the suit noises from playing altogether or any way of creating the HUD on screen without need of the suit? (Only in the mod and not just on my pc but anyone who plays it.) Thanks!

Well, you can stop the suit from playing its sound by modifying the code, but there's a much easier way.

Just take the suit sounds from the pak file, and replace them with empty wavs (0 kb).

Easy as pie.

Ok Thanks, but what if i want to keep the sounds for Half-Life and everything that uses the sounds but only have no sounds for this mod for me and anyone who downloads? Thanks for any help and thanks for the help already.

Er, find the suit sound's name, then just place an empty .wav in your mod folder in the correct location.

IE, say the HEV suit sound is named Suit_sound.wav (just an example, not sure if it does) and is in sounds/player in the pak (or GCF for steam) file, just put an empty .wav (you can just make a file in notepad and save it as wav) in Your_mod/sounds/player/.

You don't need to remove any files or do anything, since files in folders have a higher priority than them in paks or gcfs.

Ok, Thansk for your help, very highly appreciated.

You don't have to remove/edit any HL sounds.
All you have to do is to remove the HEV sentences from the sentences.txt and place it in your mod's directory..

Even better! Good thinking, Daub.

"You don't have to remove/edit any HL sounds.
All you have to do is to remove the HEV sentences from the sentences.txt and place it in your mod's directory..:)" - Great Idea, Thanks!