showHUD

Description

Enable / disable showing of HUD. Defines visibility of weapon crosshair and any informational tags that appear when pointing the weapon at an object as well as availability of the default action menu. Unfortunately, it also hides icons drawn with drawIcon3D.

Note

Arma 3: Since Arma 3 v1.50 there is a Description.ext's showHUD[] array param that is identical in format to the extended showHUD command.

When present, it will disable showHUD command entirely, allowing mission makers to permanently alter visibility of some HUD elements.
Since Arma 3 v2.04 it is possible to force drawing of drawIcon3D icons when HUD is hidden. The icons will also show when custom camera is created and the view is switched to it via switchCamera or cameraEffect provided cameraEffectEnableHUD is enabled.

For more information see drawIcon3D.

Syntax

Syntax 1

showHUD enable

Parameters:

• enable: Boolean

Returns: Nothing

Syntax 2

showHUD [scriptedHUD, info, radar, compass, direction, menu, group, cursors, panels, kills, showIcon3D]

Parameters:

• scriptedHUD: Boolean - show scripted HUD such as weapon crosshair, action menu and overlays created with cutRsc and titleRsc. Same as showHUD's first syntax
• info: Boolean - (Optional, default true) show vehicle, soldier and weapon info
• radar: Boolean - (Optional, default true) show vehicle radar
• compass: Boolean - (Optional, default true) show vehicle compass
• direction: Boolean - (Optional, default true) show tank direction indicator. Not present in vanilla Arma 3
• menu: Boolean - (Optional, default true) show commanding menu (HC related menus)
• group: Boolean - (Optional, default true) show group info bar (Squad leader info bar)
• cursors: Boolean - (Optional, default true) show HUD weapon cursors (connected with scripted HUD)
• panels: Boolean - (Optional, default true) show Arma 3: Custom Info (since arma3 1.70)
• kills: Boolean - (Optional, default true) show "x killed by y" systemChat messages
• showIcon3D: Boolean - (Optional, default false) show icons drawn with drawIcon3D even when the HUD is hidden (since arma3 2.04)

Returns: Nothing

Examples

Example 1

showHUD false;

Example 2

Hide vehicle radar and compass:

showHUD [
    true,  // scriptedHUD
    true,  // info
    false, // radar
    false, // compass
    true,  // direction
    true,  // menu
    true,  // group
    true,  // cursors
    true,  // panels
    true,  // kills
    true   // showIcon3D
];

Example 3

Check if HUD visibility is hardcoded in mission config and showHUD command is overridden:

private _disabledShowHUD = isArray (missionConfigFile >> "showHUD");

See also

shownHUD · showCinemaBorder · showSubtitles · showWatch · showRadio · showMap · showGPS · showCompass · showPad

showHUD false;