The Challenge Pro Mode HUD readme

Introduction
Welcome to the Challenge Pro Mode Heads Up Display readme. This document will guide you into using the HUD included with the Challenge Pro Mode and show some examples of its uses.

This is revision 0.2.

New features
- Health and armor bars
- Weaponlists
- Crosshair colors
- Crosshair team info
- More flexible / more options (lots of combinations)
- Ammo doesn't flash when you fire

New Console Variables

Name: Default setting: Usage:
cg_hud_crosshairColor 0 (white) Use this to change the crosshair color. 0 is white, 1 is red, 2 green, 3 yellow, 4 blue, 5 magenta, 6 cyan. Important note: cg_crosshairHealth overrides this function, turn it off to use these colors.
cg_hud_crosshairTeamInfo 1 (enabled) When enabled you see information about your teammates when they're targeted in your crosshair. Only available when cg_drawTeamOverlay is enabled (fix for future releases?).
cg_hud_graphs 1 (enabled) Enables the graphs for some of the statusbar styles.
cg_hud_statusbarStyle 0 (q3 standard) This sets the HUD's appearance. 0 is original q3 style, 1 uses long horizontal bars, 2 uses short horizontal bars, 3 uses vertical bars, 4 places the health information in the weaponlist and 5 uses three horizontal bars. Notice that some combinations of statusbar styles and weaponlists wont display all information. Find the one you feel most comfortable with.
cg_hud_teamBackground 1 (enabled) Enables/disables the use of the team background in the statusbar.
cg_hud_weaponList 0 (disabled) This sets the weaponlist's appearance, 0 disables it. 1 is on the left, 2 is on the right and 3 is in the middle. The weaponlist can look differently depending on the statusbar's style.
cg_hud_weaponListDrawAll 0 (disabled) Enabling this variable will force the weaponlist to show all weapons (ie. including those not carried).
cg_hud_drawPickup 1 (enabled) Disable this if you don't want the item pickup messages.


New Uses for Old Console Variables

Name: Default setting: New usage:
cg_crosshairHealth 1 (enabled) This function now works for _all_ crosshair types.
cg_lagometer 1 (enabled) If you disable this variable the lower left corner is better used for teamplay information.

You may also be interested in changing cg_drawIcons.

New Console Commands
There are three new commands with the HUD. These can be used to quickly setup a HUD setting.
\hudstyle #
Sets the style to the specified number. There are currently 8 different styles, you can create your own styles with config files.
\hudnext
Sets the HUD to the "next" style, use this to quickly check out all styles.
\hudprev
Sets the HUD to the "previous" style, use this to quickly check out all styles.


Future features?
- Option to turn off the crosshair "bob" when an item has been picked up.

Contact
To contact me, just send a mail to khaile@www.com. Please write in English (ie NOT Swedish). My ICQ number is 55510775, though I don't use that often...