The red and blue colour for HP and mana are gone...

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I've noticed recently that it gotten very hard to tell how much HP and Mana now that the colour is gone. This has happened just after the last patch and I've gained a few levels in skills giving me more HP and Mana. I've even tried renaming this file to see if it would help - hud_main.tga and it didn't work. Heck, I've even seen other skins there instead of the normal red and blue, like armor and hands and other things. Also I've seen some strange unreadable script there too that fills the mana bottle too. Has anyone else had this problem? I know a friend of mine is having the same thing happen to him. I've tried defragin the HD in case there were some file issues, but this didn't help. Any ideas how to fix this?
 

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I've had the color-of-hp-and-mana-bottle-bug for as long as I can remember. A restart of MSC usually deals with it all right. I've the script-in-mana-bottle-thing too once in a while. Restarting helps with that too, IIRC.
 

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ok...

Jelly I guess you're right in a way, as I've noticed this happens after a map change or join a new server. When I first play I'm thinking "woot, I got the colour back", but after the map changes... I have the same problem. I don't know about you, but I really don't want to have to restart the game every map change, or connection problem - like steam ID BS...
 

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It's a recurring bug - there's something damn buggy about those health bottles. - I think they are rendered in some strange, unconventional way, some OpenGL trick with rendering 2d with 3d surface, from what the code says.
 

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It goes specially nice with bloom mode, which makes empty bottles almost completely white, so you can't see the numbers either. :p
 

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Yeah I had it happen a few days ago too. It also happened when I started playing in june, but went away shortly thereafter, but now it's back.
 

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I wonder if the health bottles are one of Dogg's tricks, like the reflective surfaces? If they are, we ain't getting any help on that.
 

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my hud did this today. it also showed some other weird stuff, like the skin for the player model(the torso part) and the skin on the hands too(in place of where the bottles would be). wish i could get more shots but my game crashed a little after.
 

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I get that one on occasion as well.
 

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I get the same sometimes

Replica, that picture you've posted is exactly what I mean by some strange script, but imagine you can see all of the hud with the bottles and such and that script in there. Looks damn strange. Thothie, is there any way of some quick, easy, not having to do a lot of effort, changes that can be made to the hud so this won't be a problem. I'd be happy with a less attractive Heath/Mana hud that works and I can use, than one that doesn't.
 

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replica said:
my hud did this today. it also showed some other weird stuff, like the skin for the player model(the torso part) and the skin on the hands too(in place of where the bottles would be). wish i could get more shots but my game crashed a little after.

This happened to me too :(!

It happens after mapchanges - I didn´t have that problem before I guess the december beta-pack.

EDIT: Oops, hit the wrong quote-button :X!
 

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Well, I could get rid of all the graphics and just have the numbers there... I might be possible to make a client side cvar for it, or somethin, as I don't think most peeps would go for that.
 
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