Does anyone have any idea how to move the text that says: Press "E" to switch for __________.
Trying to move the hud text for the Halo 3 HUD.

Simple, i do it all the Time,

Theres Multable ways to do this, the Basic Repossitioning of the Entire set of hud messages,
or you could just move it down abit and Recreate the Hud Message text file

Ill give you what i have in my Latest HUD messages,

pickup=                   Hold %action to |n                       pick up %custom-1
swap_powerup=                   Hold %action to |n                       swap for %custom-1
touch_device=                   Hold %action to |n                       use this device
custom_device=                   Hold %action %custom-1
swap_weapon=                   Hold %action to |n                       swap for %custom-1
remind_to_switch_weapons= 
enter_vehicle=                   Hold %action to |n                       %custom-1
exit_vehicle= 
flip_vehicle=                   Hold %action to |n                       %custom-1
respawn_fail_moving=Waiting to respawn...teammate moving to fast
respawn_fail_unsafe=Waiting to respawn...too many enemies nearby
respawn_fail_combat=Waiting to respawn...teammate in combat
respawn_fail_vehicle=Waiting to respawn...teammate must exit vehicle

Displayed in the Pic, is the Swap_weapon message

TAKE NOTE, THE HUD MESSAGE TEXT ABOVE USES CUSTOMISED STRINGS
AND CUSTOM FONT (If The above strings are used, Credit will be Much Apreciated)

pic in action;



Or if you wanted to edit the orignal
(a wee bit moddified, caz i like it dis wai)

pickup=Hold %action to pick up %custom-1
swap_powerup=Hold %action to swap for %custom-1
touch_device=Press %action to use this device
custom_device=Press %action to %custom-1
swap_weapon=Hold %action to swap for %custom-1
remind_to_switch_weapons= 
enter_vehicle=Hold %action to enter %custom-1 seat of %custom-2
exit_vehicle= 
flip_vehicle=Hold %action to flip %custom-1
respawn_fail_moving=Waiting to respawn...teammate moving to fast
respawn_fail_unsafe=Waiting to respawn...too many enemies nearby
respawn_fail_combat=Waiting to respawn...teammate in combat
respawn_fail_vehicle=Waiting to respawn...teammate must exit vehicle

Edit that wit a bunch of spaces at the begining to move the text along the Screen,
Should get you what your looking for...

After you have done this, compile and edit your hud_globals to have your custom hud messages displayed.

Questions? Contact me on Xfire or Raptr
Username: Volteer55
Edited by Volteer55 on Apr 17, 2011 at 04:31 AM

ok, bit confusing but I'll give it a go. Just one thing. What exactly is a HUD Message Text file, and where is it?

E: Nvm, I found it, but how do I edit it?
Edited by spartan314 on Apr 17, 2011 at 04:37 AM

You cannot edit it, thus you can re-create it

in your data folder, create a new file in there somewhere, example;
data/spartan314/ui/hud/hud messages.hmt
Put your messages inside that file then compile it with tool, to do that (asuming a copy of cmd.exe is inside your halo custom edition folder (like mine (lol)))

Open cmd.exe and in its display type

tool hud-messages "spartan314/ui/hud" none

this will create a new tag in your folder of "tags/spartan314/ui/hud" called hud_messages.hud_message_text

you will get an error about a scenario file, ignore that.

open your hud_globals tag, find the Referance to the hud messages, change that to yours.

And There you go, if done correctly, Your new Hud Messages is Ready for compiling and Displaying ingame!

Sorry for being a bit slow, but do you open notepad, save as .hmt file?

pickup=Hold %action to pick up %custom-1
swap_powerup=Hold %action to swap for %custom-1
touch_device=Press %action to use this device
custom_device=Press %action to %custom-1
swap_weapon=Hold %action to swap for %custom-1
remind_to_switch_weapons= 
enter_vehicle=Hold %action to enter %custom-1 seat of %custom-2
exit_vehicle= 
flip_vehicle=Hold %action to flip %custom-1
respawn_fail_moving=Waiting to respawn...teammate moving to fast
respawn_fail_unsafe=Waiting to respawn...too many enemies nearby
respawn_fail_combat=Waiting to respawn...teammate in combat
respawn_fail_vehicle=Waiting to respawn...teammate must exit vehicle

Is this normal Halo CE HUD text where it's on the most left side of the screen?
Edited by spartan314 on Apr 17, 2011 at 06:02 AM

I would of expected you to know that, but yes...

ok i got it to work but one more question. How do you change the font(size and text style)? Do you change it in the notepad?
Edited by spartan314 on Apr 18, 2011 at 01:15 AM

Naw, you just import a new font with the settings you want (bold italic font size ect)

Open the Command prompt you copyed to your Halo CE root and type

tool windows-font

From there it will display a window with options to choose font, style and size ect,
Im guessing you will know what to do from there

Thanks for the help Volter
Much appreciated

Fixed

Found an issue. With weapons it works perfectly. But with vehicles, not so much...




Any idea why this might be happening?

Yeah, some taging needs to be done with the vehicles, and unicode strings,
ill tell you over xfire,

You will Need the Sting List Editor
To rename vehicle names and seats
and gunrela to set them in place

Well isn't that weird. I recompiled the map and it started showing again. O.o Weird...

All fixed, i presume.