[TUT] Stacking perk shaders with Harry's Perks in Scripting

This tutorial is only intended to be used with Harry Bo21's perks.

If you're like me and like to make it possible for players to get all or more than 4 perks sometimes you'll find it can get really cluttered at the bottom with all the perk icons spread across the screen or if you use vertical it can get hard to see them at the side.

My solution was to stack them as seen in the above screenshot, they look really nice and neatly tucked away in the corner and don't hinder the players view or look messy. Go to root\mods\maps and open _zombiemode_perks.gsc in a text editor of some sorts.

Find the function harrybo21_perks_hud_set(), it should look like this:

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harrybo21_perks_hud_set( perk )
{	
	if ( !isDefined( self.perk_hud ) )
		self.perk_hud = [];
 
	hud = NewClientHudElem( self );
	hud.perk = perk;
	hud.foreground = true;
	hud.sort = 1;
	hud.hidewheninmenu = false;
	hud.alignX = "left";
	hud.alignY = "bottom";
	hud.horzAlign = "left";
	hud.vertAlign = "bottom";
	hud.x = self.perk_hud.size * 30;
	hud.y = hud.y - 70;
	// hud.x = 0; // For vertical shaders 
	// hud.y = 0 - 70 - ( self.perk_hud.size * 30 ); // For vertical shaders 
	hud.alpha = 0;
	hud SetShader( level.zombie_perks[ perk ].perk_shader , 48, 48 );
	hud scaleOverTime( .5, 24, 24 );
	hud fadeOverTime( .5 );
	hud.alpha = 1;
	self.perk_hud[ self.perk_hud.size ] = hud;
}

Change the entire function to this:

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harrybo21_perks_hud_set( perk )
{	
	if ( !isDefined( self.perk_hud ) )
		self.perk_hud = [];
 
	hud = NewClientHudElem( self );
	hud.perk = perk;
	hud.foreground = true;
	hud.sort = 1;
	hud.hidewheninmenu = false;
	hud.alignX = "left";
	hud.alignY = "bottom";
	hud.horzAlign = "left";
	hud.vertAlign = "bottom";
        hud.x = ( self.perk_hud.size % 4 ) * 30;
        hud.y = hud.y - 70 - ( int( self.perk_hud.size / 4 ) * 30 );
	hud.alpha = 0;
	hud SetShader( level.zombie_perks[ perk ].perk_shader , 48, 48 );
	hud scaleOverTime( .5, 24, 24 );
	hud fadeOverTime( .5 );
	hud.alpha = 1;
	self.perk_hud[ self.perk_hud.size ] = hud;
}

Now find the function harrybo21_perks_mule_kick_hud_effect(), it should look like this:

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harrybo21_perks_mule_kick_hud_effect()
{
	perk_index = self harrybo21_perks_get_hud_index( "specialty_extraammo" );
	if ( !isDefined( perk_index ) )
		return;
 
	self endon( "disconnect" );
	self endon( "lost_specialty_extraammo" );
	self endon( "death" );
	self.mule_glow_hud = NewClientHudElem( self );
	self.mule_glow_hud.foreground = true;
	self.mule_glow_hud.sort = 1;
	self.mule_glow_hud.hidewheninmenu = false;
	self.mule_glow_hud.alignX = "left";
	self.mule_glow_hud.alignY = "bottom";
	self.mule_glow_hud.horzAlign = "left";
	self.mule_glow_hud.vertAlign = "bottom";
	self.mule_glow_hud.x = ( perk_index * 30 ) - 12;
	self.mule_glow_hud.y = self.mule_glow_hud.y - 70 + 12;	
	self.mule_glow_hud SetShader( "vending_vulture_glow_shader" , 48, 48 );
	self.mule_glow_hud.alpha = 0;
 
	self.mule_glow_hud harry_blink_hud( .5 );
}

Change the entire function to this:

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harrybo21_perks_mule_kick_hud_effect()
{
	perk_index = self harrybo21_perks_get_hud_index( "specialty_extraammo" );
	if ( !isDefined( perk_index ) )
		return;
 
	self endon( "disconnect" );
	self endon( "lost_specialty_extraammo" );
	self endon( "death" );
	self.mule_glow_hud = NewClientHudElem( self );
	self.mule_glow_hud.foreground = true;
	self.mule_glow_hud.sort = 1;
	self.mule_glow_hud.hidewheninmenu = false;
	self.mule_glow_hud.alignX = "left";
	self.mule_glow_hud.alignY = "bottom";
	self.mule_glow_hud.horzAlign = "left";
	self.mule_glow_hud.vertAlign = "bottom";
	self.mule_glow_hud.x = self.perk_hud[ perk_index ].x - 12;
	self.mule_glow_hud.y = self.perk_hud[ perk_index ].y + 12;
	self.mule_glow_hud SetShader( "vending_vulture_glow_shader" , 48, 48 );
	self.mule_glow_hud.alpha = 0;
 
	self.mule_glow_hud harry_blink_hud( .5 );
}

And that's it! Vulture Aid for whatever method Harry done with it from testing will show up at the position the shader is in regardless. If there are any issues please let me know.

FAQ:

Spoiler: click to open...

Q: Bad Syntax.
A: Do it again.

Q: Can be done better.
A: I don't care.

Q: You stole this.
A: Piss off.

Q: Shader doesn't show up correctly.
A: Do it again.

Credits:
DUKIP
Soy-Yo

harrybo21_perks_hud_set( perk ) { if ( !isDefined( self.perk_hud ) ) self.perk_hud = []; hud = NewClientHudElem( self ); hud.perk = perk; hud.foreground = true; hud.sort = 1; hud.hidewheninmenu = false; hud.alignX = "left"; hud.alignY = "bottom"; hud.horzAlign = "left"; hud.vertAlign = "bottom"; hud.x = ( self.perk_hud.size % 2 ) * 30; hud.y = hud.y - 70 - ( int( self.perk_hud.size / 2 ) * 30 ); hud.alpha = 0; hud SetShader( level.zombie_perks[ perk ].perk_shader , 48, 48 ); hud scaleOverTime( .5, 24, 24 ); hud fadeOverTime( .5 ); hud.alpha = 1; self.perk_hud[ self.perk_hud.size ] = hud; }

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[TUT] Stacking perk shaders with Harry's Perks