A question regarding custom hud creation

[Mythikos]

I am rather new-ish to the whole world of LUA and Gmod LUA. I had a question regarding the creation of a custom hud. So my question. . .

Is there anyway to draw images to screen (like a vmt, jpeg, png, etc) so that I may position text on it? If there is a way to draw an image to screen, can you please point me in the right direction :) If it isn't possible to do so, Can you give possibly some information on how a detailed custom hud is created or possibly direct me to some resources?

Thank you for any and all help.

[Rubat]

Create material from your .png: [url]http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/Global/Material[/url]
Set draw color: [url]http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/surface/SetDrawColor[/url]
Set material: [url]http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/surface/SetMaterial[/url]
Draw the box: [url]http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/surface/DrawTexturedRect[/url]

You put all of this into a HUDPaint hook:

hook.Add("HUDPaint", "myuniqueHUD", function()
-- functions here
end)

And you put all this code into a file in lua/autorun/client

[Mythikos]

[QUOTE=Robotboy655;41478474]Create material from your .png: [url]http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/Global/Material[/url]
Set draw color: [url]http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/surface/SetDrawColor[/url]
Set material: [url]http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/surface/SetMaterial[/url]
Draw the box: [url]http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/surface/DrawTexturedRect[/url]

You put all of this into a HUDPaint hook:

hook.Add("HUDPaint", "myuniqueHUD", function()
-- functions here
end)

And you put all this code into a file in lua/autorun/client[/QUOTE]

Thank you so much for the help. Looks like I have a bit of reading :)

[editline]16th July 2013[/editline]

So when I draw the png to screen, it flickers constantly. Anyway to fix that?