A Team Fortress 2 HUD built from the ground up using #base.

Installation and Customization

A full installation guide & video can be found here.

The HUD wiki contains a wealth of information on installing the HUD as well as customizing it. However, feel free to reach out in the Discord if you have any other questions.

Installation (TL;DR)

1. Find your TF2 install location
   • The fastest way is to open Steam -> Select Games -> View Games Library -> right click Team Fortress 2 -> Properties... -> Under Installed Files, click Browse...
2. Navigate to ..steamapps/common/Team Fortress 2/tf/custom
   • If you don't have a custom folder, create it
   • Ensure you don't have any other huds installed, as these may cause issues
3. Download the latest release
   • You just need the first zipped file (typically called budhud.zip), not any of the "source" files
4. Extract the zipped file into your ..steamapps/common/Team Fortress 2/tf/custom folder
   • You can use Windows' built in extraction (right click > Extract All...) or a program like 7-Zip
   • Ensure you don't have two folders within each other (see below)

Important

The path to the HUD should be ../tf/custom/budhud-master, NOT ../tf/custom/budhud-master/budhud-master.

TF2 looks inside ../tf/custom/<your_hud_name> for resource and scripts. If it does not find those there, it will fail.

This is the most common mistake people make when installing a hud.

budhud Updater Script

budhud includes a shell script (budhud Updater.ps1, Windows users only) in the base directory that will allow you to do a few different things. Check out the wiki for more information.

HUD Installer / Customizer

If you would like to install and customize budhud (as well as other huds) quickly and easily, check out the TF2HUD Editor created by CriticalFlaw and Revan. You can read more about it here.

HUD Credits

Thank you to everyone who has helped with budhud since 2014! This is a non-exhaustive list, but I wanted to include as many as I could.

HUD Font

• Lato, by Łukasz Dziedzic: http://www.lukaszdziedzic.eu/

HUD Icons

• Freepik: http://www.freepik.com/

HUD Translations

To see more information on budhud translations (or translate a language), see here.

• Brazilian (Brazilian Portuguese) - Translated by powah
• English - Transletated by mee :)
• Czech - Translated by kepijr
• Finnish - Translated by Eerorri
• French - Translated by ly_dee
• German - Translated by donuttt
• Italian - Translated by Hypnotize
• Japanese - Translated by hibibibi
• Norwegian - Translated by TheWisehobgoblin
• Polish - Translated by Poruś (GitesHubisz)
• Romanian - Translated by Dr4kecl
• Russian - Translated by CriticalFlaw
• Simplified Chinese - Translated by Hoto_Cocoa
• Spanish - Translated by flower
• Traditional Chinese - Translated by Ultra Violet Amethyst 紫微星宿, sneak spy
• Turkish - Translated by BerkayUnlu
• Ukrainian - Translated by kadabusha

TF2 Crosshairs

• Knuckles: https://www.teamfortress.tv/26790/official-knucklescrosses-release
• Fog: https://www.teamfortress.tv/1261
• Hypnotize: https://github.com/Hypnootize/TF2-HUD-Crosshairs
• whayay: https://github.com/whayay/yahud

Closed Captions

clovervidia: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=167785751

HUD Editing Help

• CriticalFlaw
• doodles
• flatline
• Hypnotize
• JarateKing
• omnibombulator
• raysfire
• qkeitoe
• Revan
• sheybey
• Wiethoofd

HUD Compiler

• Lange

Previous Fonts

• Roboto Condensed: https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/roboto
• Designosaur: https://fontlibrary.org/en/font/designosaur