Thread: How do i place MOD HUDs where i want them to show on the server ???

Paint? You can grab a screenshot from MOHAA, and get (X,Y) coordinates where you'd like to put the text. It may be a bit off, but this should work imho.

You just need to decide wheter you want to use virtualsize or not and scale the coords properly.

Use the cvar "ui_drawcoords" and set it to 1 to display 2D UI coordinates in MoHAA itself.

Say you have put the resolution to 1024x768 then the Y-axis starts counting from the top (0 to 768) and the X-axis from the left (0 to 1024). Cvar "ui_drawcoords" confirms this,
however when you use huddraw elements, each element has a certain alignment in both the X-dimension and the Y-dimension. By default this is "center" and "center".

In order to directly use ui_drawcoords output as _rect data for your HUD element, you have to set the alignments such that they match the behaviour observed by ui_drawcoords. By this I mean:

Code:

 huddraw_align X "left" "top"

For reference...

X alignments:
"left": position 0 is the leftmost position on the screen, while position <resolution X> is the rightmost position.
"right": position 0 is the rightmost position on the screen, while position -<resolution X> is the leftmost position.
"center": position 0 is the centre position (for X) on the screen, while -(<resolution X> / 2) is the leftmost position and (<resolution X> / 2) is the rightmost position.

Y alignments:
"top": position 0 is the uppermost position on the screen, while position <resolution Y> is the lowermost position.
"bottom": position 0 is the lowermost position on the screen, while position -<resolution Y> is the uppermost position.
"center": position 0 is the centre position (for Y) on the screen, while -(<resolution Y> / 2) is the uppermost position and (<resolution Y> / 2) is the lowermost position.