Stalker 2 HUD Editor (S2HUDit)
HUD Editor for Stalker 2: individual position/scale/opacity/autohide settings and more. Includes ultrawide fix.
Allows to set up position/scale/opacity and autohide behavior of the individual HUD widgets (including the crosshair).
Allows to set up context compass behavior: only show the compass if you’re aiming/zooming (holding the right mouse button).
Allows to completely remove healthbar – this option is missing from the vanilla HUD setup menu.
Includes Ultrawide Fix.
Default editor key is Home (can be changed in the ini).
Settings are applied in real time, but not autosaved – hit the save button when you’re satisfied with the result.
This mod requires Simple Modloader.
Follow the author’s instruction to install Modloader and set up your console key.
To install this mod:
Make sure you have Modloader installed and working.
Note: If you already have Ultrawide Fix installed, just overwrite the r457HUD.pak/ucas/utoc and copy the new Engine.ini lines to your Engine.ini.
Unpack the mod’s package and copy the three files named r457HUD.pak/ucas/utoc into your [Path-To-Stalker2-Install-Folder]\Stalker2\Content\Paks\~mods (if ~mods doesn’t exist – create it).
Launch the game to the main menu, open the console (tilde or whichever key you set up, might need to press twice to see the full console output, not just a small command line at the bottom), copy and paste this text into the command line and press enter to execute:
mod add /Game/Mods/r457HUD/r457HUD_Actor.r457HUD_Actor_C
You should see a message that the mod was added successfully. Exit the game.
Now drag the Engine.ini from the mod’s package to this folder:
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Stalker2\Saved\Config\Windows
or (which is the same)
C:\Users\[YOUR_WINDOWS_USER_NAME]\AppData\Local\Stalker2\Saved\Config\Windows
(YOUR_WINDOWS_USER_NAME is your actual user name in your system)
If you already have Engine.ini in that folder, open both files with Notepad (or Notepad++) and copy-paste the content from this one to the one you have.
Inside Engine.ini you will find the mod’s settings under this section:
[/Game/Mods/r457HUD/r457HUD_Actor.r457HUD_Actor_C]
Set HUDWidth and HUDHeight to your screen resolution. Set other parameters to your preference – the names are self-explanatory.
Known issues:
1. bDisableAutohideAmmo is a placebo parameter at this point – the game still forcefully removes the widget on weapon unequipped and after inactivity period. Still trying to find a workaround.
2. bDisableAutohideQuests is mostly working, but the game still forcefully removes the widget after going to the pause menu. Same as above: still trying to find a workaround.
3. Game cursor stops appearing in HUD Editor after you enter and exit any of the in-game menus: this is why orange dot exists, tired of fighting with the devs’ logic.
4. When using unpaused mode, subtitles displayed restore input to the game, so you need to press Home again to change input to UI.
5. Compass is not a tiny widget at the top, it’s a giant widget covering the whole screen – this is why changing alignment does nothing for it and scaling feels weird. In general, all the widgets are not what they appear to be and the HUD is made in a bizarre way by using overlay containers (literally: healthbar -> overlay -> overlay -> sizebox -> overlay -> root, they’re not using canvas for whatever reason, so they can’t set positions normally … whoever made it this way seriously needs to read some docs and redo the whole monster from scratch).
6. If you’re on gamepass version, save settings most probably won’t work for you. If so, then just copy the values from the editor window to your Engine.ini manually.
