TF2 HUD Editing Guide

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Target IDs are the little displays of name and health you see when looking at a team member or are healing/being-healed.

Target IDs are used for three seperate things. Editing the resource files for Target IDs will change the appearance of all three.

These three uses are instances of a Target ID and are shown at specific times.

All three uses have a hudlayout.res entry.

Instance	Condition	Shown When/For	hudlayout.res Entry
Main	Alive and on a team	Looking at a team member Healing someone as Medic Looking at anyone as Spy Looking at a friendly Engineer's building	CMainTargetID
Secondary	Alive and on a team	A Medic is healing you Looking at someone, while Healing someone else as Medic	CSecondaryTargetID
Spectator	Dead or in Spectate	Who you are spectating	CSpectatorTargetID

Note: The health cross for the main target ID is floating above the players head.

The Target ID is defined in targetid.res and spectatorguihealth.res

This resource file defines the overall layout of the Target IDs.

Control	What it is
TargetIDBG	The background box of Main and Secondary Target IDs
TargetIDBG_Spec_Blue	The background box of the Spectator Target ID - When spectating a blue team member
TargetIDBG_Spec_Red	The background box of the Spectator Target ID - When spectating a red team member
TargetNameLabel	The name of the player (Main, Secondary, Spectator) The name of the building (Main, Secondary)
TargetDataLabel	Ammo of person you are healing (Main, Secondary) Ubercharge percent of a medic (Main, Secondary) Upgrade details of the building (Main, Secondary) Killstreak of the person you are spectating (Spectator)
SpectatorGUIHealth	The instance of spectatorguihealth.res
AmmoIcon	Icon displayed when you see the ammo of the person you are healing
KillStreakIcon	Icon displayed when the player you are spectating has a killstreak
MoveableSubPanel	Icon displayed when you can pick up the building you are looking at (engineer only)

This resource file defines the health cross and number, which is loaded into each Target ID.

Control	What it is
PlayerStatusHealthImage	Health cross
PlayerStatusHealthImageBG	Black line around health cross
BuildingStatusHealthImageBG	Background image when viewing the health of a building
PlayerStatusHealthBonusImage	Overheal image - only displayed when the player has an overheal
PlayerStatusHealthValue	The players health - text label
PlayerStatusPlayerLevel