Changing the appearance and behaviour of the HL2 GUI

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Changing the appearence of the HL2 GUI is as easy as changing the values in the SteamApps\YourMod\Resource\SourceScheme.res using notepad. If you have not started to create your own hl2 mod you will need to extract the SourceScheme.res file from the SteamApps\source engine.gcf group file. I personally use GCFScape. to extract the files I need. Look under root\hl2\resource\SourceScheme.res to find the file. You will need to extract the SourceScheme.res file into the SteamApps\youremail\half-life2\hl2\resource folder. Or if you want to customize your own mod then extract the file to SteamApps\YourMod\Resource\SourceScheme.res.

Lets take a look at changing the color of all GUI items to a blue tint. Open the SourceScheme.res file in notepad and scroll down to about line 63 you should see something like this... 

		Frame.TitleTextInsetX			16
		Frame.ClientInsetX			8
		Frame.ClientInsetY			6
		Frame.BgColor				"160 160 160 128"
		Frame.OutOfFocusBgColor			"160 160 160 32"
		Frame.FocusTransitionEffectTime		"0.3"	// time it takes for a window to fade in/out on focus/out of focus
		Frame.TransitionEffectTime		"0.08"	// time it takes for a window to fade in/out on open/close
		Frame.AutoSnapRange			"0"

Simply change the values for Frame.BgColor to 160 160 255 128. Colors are ordered RGBA (Red-Green-Blue-Alpha). Now save the file and run your mod. Voila! You now have a blue tinted GUI.

--Created by: X 01:05, 31 Aug 2005 (PDT)

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