TF2 HUD Editing Guide

In-Depth: Main Menu

The main meun is the menu you see when you first open TF2. Heres how to edit it.

The two resource files that define TF2's main menu are:

mainmenuoverride.res - This file defines the styles and layout of the entire main menu, as well as a few dialogs that appear on the main menu.

gamemenu.res - Is a list of all the buttons on the main menu.

gamemenu.res

This file contains a list of every button on the Main Menu.

Some buttons listed here are explicitly defined in mainmenuoverride.res. Others are not, and then use a generic style for buttons, which is also defined in mainmenuoverride.res.

The format of this file is a control list, with each control braced with a buttons name, and two properties defining the label on the button and the command the button executes.

	"ServerBrowserButton"
{
    "label" "#MMenu_Servers" 
    "command" "OpenServerBrowser"
    "OnlyAtMenu" "1"
}

Some of these control entries have an extra property which only appears in this file.

Special Properties

These properties don't have to be used, but when they do, they change when the button is visible.

"OnlyAtMenu" "1"

This property means the button will only be visible on the main menu when not in-game.

"OnlyInGame" "1"

This property means the button will only be visible on the main menu when in-game.

Commands

The command property of the button determines what command is executed when the button is clicked. There are several UI commands for TF2, which you can see on existing buttons.

But we can also execute console (engine) commands with buttons on the main menu by using the engine command:

"command"		"engine cl_hud_minmode 1"

This can be used to have buttons on the main menu that change settings, like minmode. This trick can also be used in mainmenuoverride.res

mainmenuoverride.res

The mainmenuoverride.res defines the layout and style of everything on the main menu.

List of Controls / Things in mainmenuoverride.res