Temporary hud on players screen

[TheEvilDirect]

Hey

How do you put something on the players screen like a hud?

And how do you change what you posted on the screen?

And last, how do you remove what you posted on the players screen?

[StarFox]

local shouldDraw = true -- set it to false when you no longer want to draw.

hook.Add("HUDPaint", "NameYourHook", function()
    if (shouldDraw) then
        -- Paint your HUD
    end
end)

And then you draw stuff with these:
[img]http://wiki.garrysmod.com/favicon.ico[/img] [url=http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/Category:draw]Library: draw[/url]
[img]http://wiki.garrysmod.com/favicon.ico[/img] [url=http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/Category:surface]Library: surface[/url]

[TheEvilDirect]

So i just paint in the function what i want it to the screen, and if the boolean is false it disappears?

[StarFox]

[QUOTE=TheEvilDirect;47658259]So i just paint in the function what i want it to the screen, and if the boolean is false it disappears?[/QUOTE]

Yes, HUDPaint is called every frame.

[TheEvilDirect]

When i make a the hudpaint function inside of cl_init.lua. There doesnt appear any boxes(Made a simple box to test). And im not getting any errors

[Author.]

Your code?

[TheEvilDirect]

[LUA]
hook.Add("HUDPaint", "NameYourHook", function()
surface.SetDrawColor(255,255,255,255)
surface.DrawTexturedRect(0,0,205,101)
end)
[/LUA]

[Exho]

Whats the full path to the file? It might not be getting loaded

[TheEvilDirect]

I placed the cl init beside my init file. And the init file is being loaded

[Busan1]

[QUOTE=TheEvilDirect;47665010]I placed the cl init beside my init file. And the init file is being loaded[/QUOTE]

where is your init file? is this for an entity?

lua/autorun/ = put files that should be on server and client(and you can use IF( SERVER ) ) etc
lua/autorun/server = server only
lua/autorun/client = client only

[Roag15]

Unless you're using an image use surface.DrawRect(), otherwise you need to set your material first.