showHUD

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Description

Description:

Enable / disable showing of HUD. Defines visibility of weapon crosshair and any informational tags that appear when pointing the weapon at an object as well as availability of the default action menu. Unfortunately, it also hides icons drawn with drawIcon3D.

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Appearance of HUD can also be controlled with showHUD[] param in Description.ext.

Since Arma 3 v1.49.131879 there is a Description.ext's showHUD[] array param that is identical in format to the extended showHUD command. When present, it will disable showHUD command entirely, allowing mission makers to permanently alter visibility of some HUD elements.

Groups:

Interaction

Syntax

Syntax:

showHUD enable

Parameters:

enable: Boolean

Return Value:

Nothing

Alternative Syntax

Syntax:

showHUD [hud, info, radar, compass, direction, menu, group, cursors, panels, kills]

Parameters:

[hud, info, radar, compass, direction, menu, group, cursors, panels, kills]: Array

hud: Boolean - show scripted HUD (same as normal showHUD true/false)

info: Boolean - show vehicle + soldier info (hides weapon info from the HUD as well)

radar: Boolean - show vehicle radar

compass: Boolean - show vehicle compass

direction: Boolean - show tank direction indicator (not present in vanilla Arma 3)

menu: Boolean - show commanding menu (hides HC related menus)

group: Boolean - show group info bar (hides squad leader info bar)

cursors: Boolean - show HUD weapon cursors (connected with scripted HUD)

panels: Boolean - show vehicle panels

kills: Boolean - show "x killed by y" systemChat messages

Return Value:

Nothing

Examples

Example 1:

showHUD false;

Example 2:

Hide vehicle radar and compass:showHUD [true, true, false, false, true, true, true, true, true];

Example 3:

Check if HUD visibility is hardcoded in mission config and showHUD command is overriden:_disabledShowHUD = isArray (missionConfigFile >> "showHUD");

Additional Information

See also:

shownHUDshowCinemaBordershowSubtitlesshowWatchshowRadioshowMapshowGPSshowCompassshowPadactionIDsactionParamsaddActionsetUserActionTextinGameUISetEventHandlerinputActionremoveActionremoveAllActionsaction

Notes

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Posted on August 17, 2015 - 17:08 (UTC)

Killzone Kid

param "cursors" controls visibility of the action menu as well as weapon cursors. However if 1st param "hud" hides and disables action menu, param "cursors" only hides it. So you get invisible action menu that is fully operational. inGameUISetEventHandler will still fire on interaction, giving the information about selected item on the action menu even if you cannot see it. Unfortunately it also hides icons drawn with drawIcon3D.

Posted on March 1, 2020 - 14:33 (UTC)

POLPOX

showHUD falseremoves Contact's compass that shown in the top of the screen.