About " hud_color " Command Created 5 years ago2019-08-18 14:10:09 UTC by PsyWarVeteran

So, in theory, hud_color R G B should work when written to the autoexec.cfg, except it doesn't. Other codes such as impulse 101 do seem to work but hud_color only works when written to the in-game console.

Is there a workaround for this without coding, a way to trigger the code when the game starts?

And binding a key to the "hud_color" order? like bind "c" hud_color whatever....

Even if it works that way it is not a good way to realize it. It should be activated as soon as the game starts, without the player's input.

Well... I can't even get hud_color to work when I enter it in-game. I was always given the impression that hud colour is a coding change.

It is a Spirit code, doesn't work with regular HL.

I'm not too familiar with Half-Life programming, but I think you have to set something specific to make console commands get saved to the user config file? "hud_color" probably doesn't have this set and thus is reset every time the game is started. You should either hardcode or change the default value for hud_color in the code, or make sure it has the thing set so it gets archived.

Precisely, that'd be FCVAR_ARCHIVE.
If the hud_color console variable doesn't have that flag enabled, it won't get saved. So, we'd have to look at the SOHL source code then. Think of hud.cpp or any place like that.

I tried coding, whatever I do, I can't get it to compile.

In hud.h

#define RGB_WHITEISH 0x00FFFFFF//255,255,255

in ammo.cpp

UnpackRGB(r,g,b,RGB_WHITEISH);

over the line...

ScaleColors(r, g, b, a );

in battery.cpp over the line...

if (!(gHUD.m_iWeaponBits & (1<<(WEAPON_SUIT)) ))
return 1;

I put the same and worked.

"I tried coding, whatever I do, I can't get it to compile."

Which exact source code were you compiling, and what compiler did you use? Chances are, you used Visual Studio 2017's toolset on something that can't compile on anything after Visual Studio 6.0 from 1998. Or even something totally different, like Dev-C++ or Code::Blocks.

Visual Studio 2015 I think, deleted it three days ago.