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Full HUD display
From top left:
   Level (round)
   Prestige Points (pp, blue bar)
   Life
   Money
On the top right:
   Item carried
   Zombrex
   Case and mission bars
Bottom right:
   Zombies killed.

Modifying PC Dead Rising 2
Dead Rising 2 PC Mods Forum

Performance Guide

Index of all mods on forum


Tutorials


   Opening files to edit (Gibbed)
   Debug Mode
   Swap characters (Model Swap)
   Import Models
    Mod:Dead Rising 1 Files
   Placing characters
     enlarging/ resizing characters
   Create Reskins
   Adding & removing items
     Coordinates/ Rotation
    Resize Enlarge items
   Changing Text
   Weapon modifications
   Texmod: Texmod installation
   Texmod: Download textures
   Texmod: Create Reskins
  Remove missing prop box

List of what each file does


  All game items (items.txt)
   Item animations (PyroEffect)
     Bigfile.xml
  All Game Text
  All Missions and cases (missions.txt)
   Times of all missions
    Mission breakdown
  All major packed files (big files)
    datafile.big
    Character models (npcs.big)
   Sgraph - animations
   HUD (game player's interface)
   Camera.txt (camera view)
   Lighting
  Zombie models
  Game rules (Frontend)
  Cutscenes (Cinematics.big)
  Environment
    Royal Flush
    Safe house
    Americana Casino
    Arena
   Collision - controls solid surfaces
   Excel coordinates of all areas

Tools


  See also Gibbed's and Texmod
   Hex Editor

   Infinity Mode
   Work in Progress Mods
   Zombie Mode

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In video gaming, the HUD (heads-up display) is the method by which information is visually relayed to the player as part of a game's user interface.

It takes its name from the head-up displays used in modern aircraft.

The HUD is frequently used to simultaneously display several pieces of information including the main character's health, items, and an indication of game progression (such as score or level).

Dead Rising 2[]

In Dead Rising 2 PC version, the HUD can be removed.

Instructions to edit HUD files[]

Removing parts of the HUD[]

Incorrect: Military arrives at data/frontend/fecmn.big/hud_messages.txt

Dead rising 2 modsHUD all items circled

Ingame.big graph[]

The data/frontend/ingame.big file has has 78 files, with a total of 13 other hud files.

By changing true to false in these files...

File Removes
data/frontend/ingame.big/hud.txt

Only need to change one word in one line:

StateNormal="true"

to "false".

Removes everything:

From top left:

REMOVES
Level number (blue circle)
HUD level number
Prestige Points (pp, blue bar)
HUD pp
Life bar
HUD life bar
Money
HUD money
Inventory (Items carried)
HUD inventory
Zombrex
HUD zombrex
Case and mission bars
HUD case bar
Zombies killed
HUD zombies killed
Black spot behind arrow
Transmitter
HUD radio
Survivor dialogue - text of characters and Chuck
HUD character text
Store names when Chuck first walks into a store
Time until military arrives
HUD time until military


The Guide arrow is not removed


Dead-rising-2-case and mission bars

See gallery below

data/frontend/ingame.big/hud_player.txt Removes:
REMOVES everything on the top left
Level number (blue circle)
HUD level number
Prestige Points (pp, blue bar)
HUD pp
Life
HUD life bar
Money
HUD money
Zombies killed meter
HUD zombies killed

BUGS:

The transmitter button will not disappear once it pops up.

data/frontend/ingame.big/hud_missions_abovemap.txt
REMOVES
Case and mission messages box on watch screen and map screen
HUD messages


data/frontend/ingame.big/hud_worldlocation.txt Removes store name at bottom left when Chuck walks into a store
data/frontend/ingame.big/hud_bossbattle.txt No noticeable change
data/frontend/ingame.big/hud_combo_card_lrg.txt No noticeable change
data/frontend/ingame.big/hud_combo_room_key.txt No noticeable change
data/frontend/ingame.big/hud_infobar.txt No noticeable change
data/frontend/ingame.big/hud_missions.txt No change. Already all false in file
data/frontend/ingame.big/hud_online.txt No noticeable change
data/frontend/ingame.big/hud_screen_fade.txt No noticeable change
data/frontend/ingame.big/hud_watch.txt No noticeable change
data/frontend/ingame.big/hud_zombrex.txt No noticeable change
data/frontend/ingame.big/timeslate.txt

fecmn.big graph[]

The data/frontend/fecmn.big contains 7 hud files.

By changing true to false in these files...

File Removes
Dead rising 2 mods data frontend hud overlays txt (3)

All that remains of icons is gray squares

data/frontend/fecmn.big/hud_overlays.txt

Changing all the words to true to false:

REMOVES

No joystick/keyboard button next to the item

No removes the item name

HUD Item

REMOVE THE ITEM ICONS

There are 14 item icons File="action_icon_..." and one ImageFile="action_icon_attack". These 14 lines are repeated 10 times.

Removing these lines removes the item icons.

But what remains is a gray box with an arrow pointing to the item, which turns black when Chuck gets close.

Dead rising 2 mods data frontend hud inventory txt

No inventory or Zombrex bar

data/frontend/fecmn.big/hud_inventory.txt
REMOVES
Inventory (Items carried)
HUD inventory
Zombrex
HUD zombrex

Does NOT remove case and mission.


Dead rising 2 mods hud messages txt

example of text which would be removed.

data/frontend/fecmn.big/hud_messages.txt
Removes
time until military arrives
HUD time until military
Survivor dialogue - text of characters and Chuck
HUD character text
survivor killed message
HUD dead
data/frontend/fecmn.big/hud_npc.txt No noticeable change. npc stands for non-player character. file has line npc_health could be health bars for characters when you leave them in other rooms. Sullivan's green bar shows up clearly in safe house.

Files also present: name_backing, red_meter, npc_dying_select

data/frontend/fecmn.big/hud_cinematic No noticeable change
data/frontend/fecmn.big/gs_hud_common.txt Removes names of items and the button to press to use or take that item


data/frontend/fecmn.big/hud_reticle.txt No noticeable change

A reticle is a net of fine lines or fibers in the eyepiece of a sighting device, such as a telescope, a telescopic sight, a microscope, or the screen of an oscilloscope.

Removing the Guide arrow[]

Dead Rising 2
  1. Open data/models/special
  2. rename the files to anything different:
    1. guide_arrow.big
    2. guide_arrow.tex

The "black stain" remains, which was behind and surrounded the arrow, modifying the above ingame.big file removes this.

Why change the name and not just delete it? This is because it is good to still have the file just in case you ever want the arrow back.

Off the Record

The Dead Rising 2 method does not work for Off the Record - the game crashes at the start up screen. Removing these two files also causes the game to crash.

Instead with Gibbed, open:

Dead Rising 2 Off The Record\data\models\special\guide_arrow.big

With a text editor open:

bigfile.xml in the guide_arrow.big folder created by gibbeds

bigfile.xml looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<files version="2">
 <entry name="Combined Vertices 8" alignment="32">Combined Vertices 8</entry>
 <entry name="Combined Vertices 12" alignment="32">Combined Vertices 12</entry>
 <entry name="Combined Indices 2" alignment="32">Combined Indices 2</entry>
 <entry name="_ATTRIBUTE_" alignment="4">_ATTRIBUTE_</entry>
 <entry name="UsedShaders.txt" alignment="4">UsedShaders.txt</entry>
 <entry name="MatArray" alignment="4">MatArray</entry>
 <entry name="MatTextureInfoArray" alignment="4">MatTextureInfoArray</entry>
 <entry name="_COLLPRIMS_" alignment="4">_COLLPRIMS_</entry>
 <entry name="SceneDescription" alignment="4">SceneDescription</entry>
 <entry name="persistent.big" alignment="256">persistent.big</entry>
 <entry name="SceneHeader" alignment="4">SceneHeader</entry>
</files>

Delete all the lines except this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>  
<files version="2">
  <entry name="UsedShaders.txt" alignment="4">UsedShaders.txt</entry>
  <entry name="persistent.big" alignment="256">persistent.big</entry>
</files>

Repack the folder with Gibbed.

The Gibbed created guide_arrow_big folder can remain in the special folder without the game crashing.

arrow splotch name

The arrow splotch in Texmod is named: DEADRISING2.EXE_0xC590AD40

Removing the Local Player Pos[]

Dead rising debugger slot ranch casino (2)

When a player is in Debug Mode a green line showing Chuck's location is on the top of the screen.

Local player pos

This can be removed by editing your user.ini or master.ini file, this line should read:

RenderLocalPlayerPosition="false"[1]

Game location names[]

The location names which are displayed in the HUD when Chuck walks into an area is found in the data/datfile.big/fe_map_f1.csv file.

Potential coding to explore[]

In missions.txt, section cMissionDefinition Tutorial2_Katey:

cMissionRaiseDialog HideZombieCount1
{
DialogName = "HIDE_ZOMBIES"
}

Other sections:

cMissionRaiseDialog Timeslate1
{
show_time_until_rescue = "true"
}


cMissionRaiseDialog hide_zombrex
{
	hide_zombrex_counter = "true"
}

Comparison of ingame.big OTR with DR2[]

File:Comparison of data frontend ingame.big OTR and DR2.doc



Off the record ingame.big file with HUD removed[]

Gallery[]

data/frontend/ingame.big/hud_player.txt[]

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