Hiding Damage Output

A few months back I did a video collage for a gaming group contest and one of the issues I dealt with was seeing the damage output on screen from Infected attacks.

I went to the Steam Forums to look around and even posted asking the question to the group. I do not miss public forums one bit.

sv_cheats 1
hidehud 4
cl_drawhud 0
cam_command 1
cam_idealdist 150
hide_message_panel 1

hidehud 4 *should* be hiding this, but obviously it is not.

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I poked around for a few days, read this thread and came up with the following:

• Browse to "[installdir]\Steam\steamapps\common\left 4 dead\left4dead\resource\UI"
• Open HudAchievementFloatingNumber.Res
• Set visible to "0"
• Save

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Apparently that did the job.

The end result is here. I probably won't do this sort of thing again, though this ended up in receiving a free copy of Left4Dead2.

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