Anyway to remove prompts?

[soopytwist]

I hate those prompts on the screen. The hints that tell you how use a flashflight when it's dark. No? REALLY? Use a flashlight when it's dark - I really did not think of doing that when it's dark and thanks for keep reminding me...EVERY FRICKING FIVE MINUTES!

 

There are plenty of other incredibly annoying tutorial hints and button prompts that pop up right in the middle of the screen and quite frankly I want them gone. There are some I'd like to keep though and maybe there's a way to move the text to the top of the screen above the XP bar. The less HUD elements in my face the better.

 

I'm working through the files trying to track them down, no luck so far. I thought perhaps tutorial_hints_textures.scr might have done it but it didn't seem to work and the game actually crashed but I think I know what I did wrong with that.

[soopytwist]

Ooh, never mind I found 'em. There's me answering my own posts again.

 

tutorial_hints.scr, if anyone's interested.

[soopytwist]

I've disabled the majority of pop-up tutorial hints but I can't remove these two:

 

"You have unspent skill points".

 

The ID for that is HudPoi_FreeSkillPoints, and the text string is found in common_texts_all.bin.

 

"You can craft a new item".

 

The ID for that is Hud_CanCraftItem, and the text string is also found in common_texts_all.bin.

 

However the parameters for both of the above don't appear to be in the usual tutorial_hints script, and in fact don't appear to be anywhere apart from a .dll but I'm not mucking about with .dll's or I might get VAC banned. It's very frustrating having disabled most of the hints apart from two of the most annoying.

 

I could blank out the text from the string in the .bin file but that would still leave the pop-up and the sound it makes.

Edited April 23, 2015 by soopytwist

[soopytwist]

No one then uh?

 

Well if you want the mod I've made so far here it is

And this is what it does:

 

- Reduces the speed of stamina loss
- Slows weapon degrade
- Maximum ammo you can carry for pistols is 180
- Maximum ammo you can carry for rifles is 240
- Maximum ammo you can carry for shotguns is 120
- No penalities for dying
- Longer day and night cycle (10 minutes of real time equals 1 hour of game time)
- The majority of melee weapons can be repaired 4 times.
- Removal of or changes to some tutorial hints:

- Stamina loss
- Use flashlight
- Making a loud noise
- Falling on destroyable roof
- Being chased for more than 10 seconds
- Entering a vehicle
- Killing an enemy
- Receiving heavy damage from fall and didn't die
- Melee weapon gets damaged
- Coop game reminders
- Near inactive (unsecured) Safe Zones
- "Night is Coming" is now "It is night time"