Custom HUD Menus

This guide covers how to make a custom hud menu, such as the saveloc or ruler menus.

Hud menus overview

Hud menus are a nice way to add many commands/cvars into a single menu. There are a few hud menus that ship with the game:

• Saveloc menu
• Ruler menu
• Map commands menu (more aimed towards mappers)

You can create however many custom menus as you’d like, but only one can be displayed at a time. They are also limited to a maximum of 9 commands, not including an optional close command.

To open a hud menu, use mom_hud_menu_show. The parameter for this command will autofill with all the available hud menus.

File reading/writing

Hud menus are stored in and read from cfg/menus/ as .vdf files. Files with the suffix _default are not read from unless their counterpart does not exist. In which case, it will be copied and have the suffix removed for reading.

Custom hud menus how-to

A simple hud menu with just one command looks like:

"Custom Menu"
{
  "1"
  {
    "label"   "Some command"
    "command" "mom_some_command"
  }
}

"1" refers to the number in the menu the command is at, "label" is the text that shows for the button on the menu, and "command" is the console command that’s inputted into console.

Adding more commands is then as simple as:

"Custom Menu"
{
  "1"
  {
    "label"   "Some command"
    "command" "mom_some_command"
  }
  "2"
  {
    "label"   "Some other command"
    "command" "mom_some_other_command"
  }
  "3"
  {
    "label"   "Some command"
    "command" "mom_some_other_command"
  }
  ...
}

As in this example, labels and commands can be duplicated. Hud menus allow a maximum of 9 commands, accessed through numbers 1-9.

There is the ability to execute a command on close as well, via the "close_command" keyvalue:

"Custom Menu"
{
  "close_command" "mom_some_command"
  "1"
  {
    "label"   "Some command"
    "command" "mom_some_command"
  }
  ...
}