Ok, well I know Donut already tried to help me with this aspect but can someone please tell me how to make a new hud, in PLAIN terms, as in from start to finish how to make a hud, or at least point me in the direct ion of a tutorial. thanks

making a custom hud is hard. plainly stated. there are over 50 bitmap files and thats not including those sprite bitmaps where there are like 4 or 5 sprites in one .bitmap tag. tagging an hud is tiresome and weapon meters rarely work correctly. iv redone the meter for my needler litterally 8 times. the needle to the left is always blank, one in the middle skips and goes dark at the same time as another. my suggestion is to look at the default bitmaps, mb extract them into mspaint or something and mess around with them. using the gimp's line function with the smoothed edges is a good idea for curves and the whole hud in general