Get rid of health friendly health bars and UI tweaks

[Johnyfive]

Does anyone know of a way to get rid of friendly health bars? I know there's a screenshot mode which disables ALL of the HUD but is there a way to just remove health and armor bars?

Or if someone is really savvy; is there a way to put them UNDER the friendly player? They're generally in the way in my opinion.

And if there's someone out there with some tricks and tips on the HUD at large I'd bet there's more than just me who'd like to know more, even if it's just a link to a resource to do our own research.

Thanks in advance.

 

[vempajor]

I think there is no problem with that, never disturbed me in the game. (Maybe your screen resolution is small?)

 

[Johnyfive]

I didn't say they disturbed you.

 

[vempajor]

I didn't say that would be bad if we could turn these off, just noticed I like them.

 

[Azukki]

At minimum resolution, the health bars will block most of your vision where you need it if you're in the back of a formation. They're right in the way and needlessly large.

Maybe an option to put the health bars in the tab player/score list thing?
Or scale them down proportionately with resolution?

 

[vempajor]

Ohh, I only seen these at 1680x1050.

 

[Nekomancer]

Yeah, at 1024x768 they can get a bit big. So if there would be a way to resize them, it would be great. Half the size would be perfect in my opinion. That doesn't mean i want that to be mandatory. Just as an option.

 

[nath2009uk]

Aren't they transparant? If they aren't, they should.
Or a 'lite' version should me made, just like the option for the hud.

 

[El Couch]

Word.

 

[BEEEEEES]

Yea...sometimes it can get hard to see past all that hud when there's a few folks in front of ya...

I wish it were an adjustable size, cause I'd cram that slider bar down to minimum.

 

[robdude19]

You'd definitely want the size adjustable so medics can keep them big, helps to find injured players at a distance especially on high res.

 

[ANTHEM]

Yea...sometimes it can get hard to see past all that hud when there's a few folks in front of ya...

I wish it were an adjustable size, cause I'd cram that slider bar down to minimum.

But you're a berserker. For us medics, we've gotta see that stuff. I'd like them smaller so I could see everyone's without an overlap, but it's just impossible. If we cram them down, then when they're far away they'd have to get proportionately smaller, making them invisible.

I don't even see a point to this comment, but I've already typed it so I'll just add it.

Good idea, I guess.

 

[Nibe]

Ohh, I only seen these at 1680x1050.

I use the same resolution, when possible. Any smaller and screen looks blurry. i don't like blurry FPs when headshotting em.

Healthbars rarely block my vision. N00Bs with nade launchers spawnin smoke to every singe FP do the vision blocking trick much much better.

 

[Nekomancer]

Yeah, adjustable health bars would be an awesome addition.

 

[Johnyfive]

The health bars are already scalable, and for whatever reason that option is tied to text size, smaller text also means smaller health bars. I'm not sure why the thread got moved to the Ideas and Suggestions forum, the OP was a question as to whether a keybind or an .ini change could hide health bars, or would a mutator need to be created and whitelisted. Obviously a mutator would be able to, but is there a built in way to manipulate the bars already? Somewhere?