Removing HL Steam option menu tabs? Created 7 years ago2017-01-20 09:32:23 UTC by Mr Gnang

Hi all!

I am hoping to remove some Half-Life steam menu option tabs (such as multiplayer and content lock).

Is there an easy way to do this?

So far I can only see how to hide elements within these tabs through the .res files in the resource folder, but not how to remove the tabs outright.

Is this a case of modifying the dlls?

Thanks, James

Yes you would need to modify code, I believe you can do this with the HL SDK, but don't quote me on that.

What is the problem with just hiding them ?

You can't hide the tabs from the .res files (from what I have found), but only the content. So I would be left with Multiplayer and Content tabs that just lead to empty option windows. It's just to tidy it up

Thanks for the reply!

You can't do much with the Steam GUI because it's inside the GameUI binary whose code is not available.

Solokiller requested that code to be open sourced a long time ago so modders could implement their own GameUI (maybe revive WON UI too) but no reply so far.

You might be able to use the VGUI2 interface to remove the panels, not sure.
I just sent another mail, maybe this one will convince them.

vgui2::IPanel::DeletePanel is probably your best best. If that crashes, vgui2::IPanel::SetParent with NULL_HANDLE as the parent should remove the panel IIRC.

you need to email valve to change the menu? damn hl is really moddable. I have seen servers modify your menu through slowhacking