too bright hud in l4d2 , it is blinding in dark scenes

[carypt]

hello , i have the problem with left4dead2 (and more since its last update), that the ingame hud is blinding me , it is too bright in contrast to the sometimes very dark scenes .
i suffer a bit from cataract ( grauer star , haze in the eye itself . thus the high contrast ( clear white hud-text on dark background) glares me .
i would like to have an option to reduce the brightness of the hud-information or an automatic adaptation option.

[Typical]

can send screenshot?

[carypt]

i made a couple screenshots in l4d2 original campaign " crash course" from the darker parts to give an idea how contrasty it can be . it can look as distracting as some web-advertisement is .
sure it is important to know how healthy the other players are , but it reduces the useable screen area . sure the view-field of eye might be smaller than the full screen , but with cataract the brighter parts make the eyeball glow inside , this is also bad with bright lanterns on a dark road in real world . it is disturbing me , but sure there can be other high contrast scenes in game too with same effect . but i would say the hud must not add extra inconvienience (to cataract suffering people( who ate too much sugar )).


https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2268638203
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2268639692
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2268640543
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2268641142

[Yalbor]

I'm guessing that the cause is the healthbars textures being too bright right?
If that's the case I may suggest you using these two addons:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=621420645&searchtext=re2+healthbars
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=746928133&searchtext=weapon+panel

Hope they serve to you :)

[J E T T]

If the HUD UI is too bright and you want to reduce/ remove them try these:

SLIM HUD Alt (dark green health bar with thinner weapon and item panel)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=308941246

SCHISM HUD (modular version, you can remove team health bar, weapon panel, etc. to your liking see screenshot for more example)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1154660294

[carypt]

i made a paintshop edit of one picture to make it look like cataract view . i have the cataract on right eye only til now , so i can make a comparison of both views . i have overdone it a bit , sry , but my mind seem to not distinguish between bright haze levels as well as before .i had difficulties to see the effect of my painting while doing .
anyway , here both pictures , without and with haze , as i see it . other people will have it worse .
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2268638203
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2268824777

[Oshul]

Just use hud mods to change the color and style

[carypt]

ty , bubbles and jett , for your help . it seems the schism-hud mods will do best here . SCHISM HUD: Weapon (Classic) https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1154684260 seem to place the right side wheapon hud to bottom line , which would help for clear sight .
i too choose SCHISM HUD: Player (Default) and SCHISM HUD: Team (Classic) , it seems to be smallest here , you can also chose a hud mod displaying empty . ty for help . i will check if it does the job as well .

there are explanations too for autoexec.cfg to play with color values like here : https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1154693003 and use analogies here : https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=942284942&searchtext=glow

[carypt]

oh my , there are plenty of hud mods , but most is bull . it would need a nightview adapted red hud , or a low contrast inverted color hud .

seem to match a bit :
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=271496634&searchtext=hud+mods , https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=152644088&searchtext=hud+mods , https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2189903316&searchtext=hud+mods , https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1423829793&searchtext=small+hud , https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1144661535&searchtext=small+hud is my choice i'd say , but team names can overlap

[GOD RAYS ON ULTRA™]

I use a cool mod called hide_hud. I got it on l4dmaps. Then open the console and type crosshair 0. There, now only game and nothing in your way. Looks beautiful this way.