SMXhud – The HUD Replacement Mod

7 days to die smxhud the hud replacement mod

SMXhud changes the game HUD. Everything you see on the interface while running around in the game world is part of the HUD experience. The purpose of SMXhud is to change that part of the user interface and change it into a more horror like and gritty art style all while trying to be as informative as possible but not intrusive.

With the release of A21 SMXhud has now evolved into the world of Harmony. This means that it does now mod deeper than ever before and that opens the door for more and better features. On the flip side this means it is no longer EAC friendly, so turn EAC off.

  • Verified to work with: 1.333
  • Compatibility: Will probably work with most mods that doesn’t modify the same windows in the XUI files.

WELCOME

Welcome to the new and improved SMX series for 7 Days to Die.

The goal with this mod is to give the entire 7 Days to Die user interface an extreme makeover an refashion it into how Sirillion believe the user interface for the game should be experienced. SMX consist of several modlets which can be broken down into three separate mods: SMXhud, SMXmenu and SMXui. These are all stand alone and can be used separately or, as is the intention, together with the other two and all three mods combined is what makes the SMX experience complete!

In addition they have the core, the main modlet if you will, SMXcore. This is a library modlet and even though it makes very little changes on its own it holds all the assets that the other mods need to function. Because of this it is a mandatory modlet that will need to be downloaded and installed no matter which of the other ones you choose to use.

SMX tries to create an experience as close up towards the vanilla user interface as possible. With little to no changes that can disrupt the balance of the game. The only exception being the extra slot on the crafting queue which is there to make the design fit and hardly disrupts game balance!

Then they have the optional modlets. They are aware that some people want the extra bling bling, and as such they offer these as optional downloads that can be installed alongside the main modlets from each series to expand upon the features from vanilla. They offer official optional downloads such as: Target Health Bar, Bigger Bags and a Third Forge Slot.

Other optional modlets and compatibility patches might become available from other mod authors.

They hope you will enjoy playing 7 Days to Die with the new experience that SMX brings to the table.

Have fun! 🙂

TERMS OF USE

You are allowed to use this modlet as is for your own personal use and/or on a server you run and/or administrate.

You are under no circumstance allowed to distribute any SMX and/or ZMX branded modlets without written consent from the main developer.

If you wish to distribute SMX and/or ZMX branded modlets as part of your own project and consent have been given you are required to do so in such a way so that all the files of the SMX and/or ZMX modlet or modlets in question remain unaltered and you cannot under any circumstance claim credit for creating the modlet or modlets or any of the files provided with it/them.

If consent is given you are required to make any changes as a new modlet that injects into the modlet in question and keeping load order in mind it is to be named so that it loads AFTER the original modlet. The original modlet shall be distributed as is with no change to its files what so ever.

If consent is given it is only given on a case to case basis and those that receive consent cannot pass that consent on to another party or project. Nor will the consent pass on to other creators that opt to include consented work into their project.

You are not allowed to use any of the assets bundled with SMX and/or ZMX branded modlets in other projects. This restriction applies to all files that the SMX and/or ZMX modlets consist of. EXCEPTION: The content of the Harmony folder is to be considered open source and can be used freely as long as the original credit comments within the files are not removed or altered other than adding to.

You are required to seek special consent from the main developer should you wish to make changes to any asset files provided with the SMX and/or ZMX branded modlets.

You are required to inform the main developer when your project that contains any SMX and/or ZMX modlet or modlets have been made available to the public.

MEET THE TEAM

As of A20 Sirillion decided to move SMX into the lands of Harmony and with that digging even deeper into what they can do with modding the game. This requires knowledge that he does not possess enough of to be able to continue working on this on his own. As a result the team has grown and they have added some supernerds that know this stuff.

Main Credits:

  • Sirillion (main developer/designer/xml/coding)
  • Sphereii (developer/coding)
  • TormentedEmu (developer/coding)
  • Laydor (developer/coding)

Contributors: Mumpfy(art)

NEED SUPPORT?

They strive to make SMX in the best possible way and try to make user actions with it as smooth as possible. But they are still here to answer questions if you run into problems with it or it’s installation procedure. Please, do not hesitate to contact them for any issue, big or small, they just ask you to run this simple checklist before coming to ask them for help and just maybe you will be able to help yourself first.

  • Did you install all the downloaded folders? Do note that SMXhud and SMXui both have an additional folder that needs installing. (ZMXhudCP and ZMXuiCP)
  • Did you install SMXcore? This modlet contains all the assets (custom graphics) they use and without this your UI will be mostly transparent.
  • Did you check the folder hierarchy and made sure you didn’t install the modlets too deep?
  • Did you disable ALL other mods or modlets and then try again to see if the problem still exists? (Be careful with this, backup your save!)
  • Did you check the support sites to see if anyone else have had the same problem recently?

If you ran this checklist and still need their support please contact them on one of their support channels. But please, only post on one of the support channels. Pick one and stick with it as they do monitor all of them and having to answer the same thing on several sites just leads to confusion.

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INSTALLATION AND REMOVAL PROCEDURES

  • First and foremost, the most important thing you need to do with SMX in V1.0: TURN OFF EAC!
  • Backup your save game before installing ANY mods to the game. They don’t expect SMX to cause any issues, it is just good practice!
  • Download the mod.
  • Decompress the downloaded files with WinRAR or a compatible compression software like 7zip.
  • Copy or move the Mods folder you just decompressed into your 7 Days to Die installation folder. Overwrite if prompted.
  • Verify your install by checking that the ModInfo.xml file is located in this Hierarchy: “\Mods\modletname\ModInfo.xml”
  • Remove by deleting the modlet folder in question from within the Mods folder.

SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT

All SMX branded mods and modlets will forever be free of charge and available for everyone to download and enjoy. They do however from time to time get questions from their users on how they can donate to support the development. The purpose of this link is nothing more than a way for them to cater to those that want to make a donation. You should under no circumstance feel obligated to do so, but if you do decide to do it they want you to know that is comes greatly appreciated.

Donation or not they would like to extend a thank you to all that download and use the different SMX mods, they hope you enjoy them as much as they do making them.

If you feel like making a donation to support the development of the SMX branded modifications, click the image below or scan the QR code.

7 days to die smx support

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CHANGELOG

v1.0.333.1

CHANGES

  • The target health bar optional modlet has now been added as a Gears setting.
    • zSMXhudCP_THB has now been removed as an optional download.
  • Added Gears settings to turn ON/OFF the following UI elements.
    • The Compass.
    • The On-Screen Icon System.
    • The Entering POI Difficulty Popup.
    • The Location Difficulty Popup.
    • The Current Time. (The Clock)
    • The Tip Popup.
    • The Bow Draw Bar.
  • Added Gears settings to turn ON/OFF the following SMX features.
    • The Ambient Temperature.
    • The Player Temperature.
    • The Bloodmoon Indicator.
    • The Lootstage Indicator.
    • The Unused Skill Point Indicator.
    • The Locked Slots Indicator (with art).
  • Added a Gears setting called ‘Screenshot Mode’. (Kills the entire HUD! Can be played with if you like to torture yourself!)

FIXES

  • Adjusted the Focused Block Health Bar slightly.

v1.0.333.0

CHANGES

  • SMXhud has been converted to work with v1.0.

DOWNLOAD SMXhud (923 KB)
Dependencies: SMXcore

Credits: Sirillion, SphereII, TormentedEmu, Laydor

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Unburt
Unburt
October 24, 2024 1:50 pm

Hello, when will there be an update to version 1.1 b14?

Sirillion
Sirillion
October 30, 2024 8:00 am
Reply to  Unburt

It already is updated for 1.1b14. With the changes done in v1.0 all the code is now in SMXcore, so updating SMXcore will also update SMXhud.

The downloadable SMXhud, SMXmenu and upcoming SMXui are just activators so to say and will not really need to be updated ever.

morgan696
morgan696
August 30, 2024 2:47 am

can you increase the sizes for the buffs and compass by 2x

Sirillion
Sirillion
September 10, 2024 3:56 pm
Reply to  morgan696

No, but I will keep it in mind for when we start redesigning it for the next version and maybe some size changes can be done then.

Robert Fitts
Robert Fitts
August 11, 2024 9:04 pm

Trying to get the new version for V1.0 to work and cant get it… got both the HUD and the Core in the mods folder and its not working… anyone able to help? I had this back in A21 and loved it.. and want it back

Sirillion
Sirillion
August 12, 2024 2:52 am
Reply to  Robert Fitts

We need to have a bit more information if we are to be able to help you. We can best help you on our discord, you will find the link there by following the Forum link above.

Concerned citizen
Concerned citizen
August 24, 2023 7:51 pm

Is anyone else having an issue with a grey box hovering over where the ammunition would be displayed on the hud in game? >.> Not huge prob but kinda annoying in the heat of the moment lol Any way I can fix myself?

Darkside98
Darkside98
September 2, 2023 5:45 pm

Yeah I have the same issue, it’s quite annoying. I’ll have to do some digging to see if I can fix it, otherwise I guess we’ll just have to deal with it until it’s fixed.

Ademir Stefanski
Ademir Stefanski
September 5, 2023 12:35 am

I’m having this same issue.

Shakeron
Shakeron
August 22, 2023 1:07 am

Same one, waiting for patch since A21.1 is out…

TYLER HESS
TYLER HESS
August 19, 2023 3:07 am

Hey there! So I’ve added mods one by one to find what is causing my issue. I’ve added, in order, SMXcore, SMXui, ZMXuiCP, ZMXhudCP, AND THEN SMXhud. When I add SMXhud, I get an extremely long list of errors that I goes on for so long that I Alt-F4 out of it. It appears to be a repetitive error, 2 back to back over and over.
ERR [XUi] Error while updating window group ‘toolbelt’:
EXC Method not found: int .Inventory.GetItem Count(ItemValue,bool,int,int)

Could you help me find out what I’m doing wrong here?

Megavega
Megavega
August 19, 2023 11:20 am
Reply to  TYLER HESS

Also having this issue.

Ademir Stefanski
Ademir Stefanski
September 5, 2023 12:35 am
Reply to  TYLER HESS

I’m having this same issue.

Austen
Austen
September 19, 2023 3:28 am
Reply to  TYLER HESS

same for me, this mod needs to be updated. i am just using vanilla UI for now.

ragnarokum
ragnarokum
July 2, 2023 9:01 am

any chance you can add extra modlet to the hud so we can remove poi info? im talking about the one that pops up when you approach a poi and the one to the side. i truly think it is childish they would put this in a zombie survival game. great work btw guys. it looks amazing.

Sirillion
Sirillion
July 6, 2023 1:13 pm
Reply to  ragnarokum

I will look into adding an optional for it.

Frank
Frank
July 1, 2023 2:09 am

Hi Sirilion ! Thanks for the good work. Is it compatible with the newest stable 324 version ? Is by chance solved the issue addressed by Daniel here about hosting a game with a friend ? I´m new to the game and just started to review and meet the modding community, this UI mod looks gorgeous ! I´m looking forward to try it out

Sirillion
Sirillion
July 6, 2023 1:12 pm
Reply to  Frank

The current update to SMX works with stable yes.

If by issues reported by Daniel you mean to first posts here those are very old and was never a mod issue but a user issue. When using mods like these it must be installed on all clients and the center compass thing is a missing modlet install.

Vulfgar Adler
Vulfgar Adler
December 15, 2022 10:07 am

You cannot craft all Drinks. No Coffee, no Yucca-Juice nothing. You can go to the campfire to craft any drinks and the button “Crafting” is not there. You can cook water only. (Bottle and Glass)

Sirillion
Sirillion
December 22, 2022 11:53 am
Reply to  Vulfgar Adler

Should have nothing to do with this mod. It changes the visuals, not the function. So it doesn’t touch what is crafted where, how and with what. It only replaces the graphics and positions of elements.

That said I will take an extra look at those, but it is likely as is intended or caused by another mod.

If I find it is caused by SMX I will come back with a reply, if no reply is given within 48hrs then assume we found no issue.

chris
chris
October 18, 2022 7:57 pm

is not work but eac is off and other hud not working too

Sirillion
Sirillion
October 20, 2022 7:02 am
Reply to  chris

We will need a little bit more information than just that it is not working, because we know that it works.

It is likely so that you’ve not installed it correctly and we can help you with that but we will need a little bit more information about what you’ve done to do that.

Please come to our discord and we can assist you further, you will find the information about that in our forum page.

Sirillion
Sirillion
October 13, 2022 4:27 pm

Todays update, 13.10.2022, was a hotfix for a small bug with the bloodmoon indicator and also a design change for the same that makes it a lot more subtle.

That is the only change.

Alien Bruh
Alien Bruh
July 14, 2022 9:46 pm

How do I get the exact hub in the image, because I can’t see the top left that includes the time and day

Sirillion
Sirillion
July 15, 2022 9:46 pm
Reply to  Alien Bruh

Then you haven’t installed it correctly and is missing the ZMXhudCP modlet.

Bearmanic
Bearmanic
May 6, 2022 2:36 am

When I start the game I get the party screen and cannot remove it. I have the following mods installed in the Mods folder:
SMXhud-master
SMXlib
SMXmenu
SMXui
SMXui-master
ZMXhudCPBH1080
ZMXuiCP
ZMXuiCPBBMxx1
.gitattributes
Also, during loading the game I receive red errors stating something on the line that it cannot fine the hudui.

Thanks

RJGrayLight
RJGrayLight
May 3, 2022 8:59 pm

It seems that this isn’t compatible with the latest version of 7 Days to Die, 20.4b4. When attempting to start a game with this mod and the latest update, there’s always a menu, seemingly at random, that is taking up 1/4 of the screen.

Can we get an update for the latest version?

TooHigh
TooHigh
March 16, 2022 10:46 pm

Not sure what im doing wrong… mainly cuz the “Verify your install by checking that the ModInfo.xml file is located in this Hierarchy: “\Mods\modletname\ModInfo.xml”” confuses the crap out of me

Sirillion
Sirillion
March 17, 2022 9:58 pm
Reply to  TooHigh

Can’t really see how that is confusing. It tells you to verify that the mods have been installed properly by going over all the folders ensuring the ModInfo.xml file is placed properly.

So “\Mods\modletname\ModInfo.xml” then translates to “Mods\SMXhud\ModInfo.xml”.

And it is the same for all the other folders.

Sirillion
Sirillion
January 17, 2022 6:49 pm

Please be advised that the SMX team does not monitor this site to the extent we do the other support channels we use. Therefore, if you require support from us in any way please follow the link to our forum in the main post above and you will be guided to our support channels of choice.

You can still post here but keep in mind it may take longer for us to respond than if you use our preferred support channels.

-S

Alex Robinson
Alex Robinson
January 17, 2022 4:55 pm

I’ve always loved this HUD but I have one question. Is there any plan to make it work better with 15 slot toolbelt? Currently it’ll just add a second toolbelt row with the second half of it not functioning. I previously used a HUD that could put all 15 slots into a single row.

Sirillion
Sirillion
January 17, 2022 6:48 pm
Reply to  Alex Robinson

No plans to implement a 15 slots tool belt at this time as an official part of the mod. That said, there is a compatibility patch you can install along side the hud and the 15 slot tool belt mod that will change what needs to be changed to make it work. It should be available here and is made by Robear, so it is not an official SMX modlet so for any issues you need to go to Robear for support.

Alex Robinson
Alex Robinson
January 17, 2022 7:26 pm
Reply to  Sirillion

Thank you for the help!

Replicators
Replicators
January 9, 2022 12:14 am

I like this, but some improvements should be made, like a experience bar and the total amount of ammo in your backpack, not just what’s loaded in your gun. Other than that this is nice and wish it was stock.

Sirillion
Sirillion
January 9, 2022 1:19 pm
Reply to  Replicators

It has both those things. The XP bar circles the level number in the top left corner and the total ammo count is a smaller number just below the current ammo count in the lower right corner.

Replicators
Replicators
January 9, 2022 5:48 pm
Reply to  Sirillion

Something is wrong for me then because i don’t get level displayed in that circle, and the ammo only shows what is loaded.

Sirillion
Sirillion
January 10, 2022 11:21 am
Reply to  Replicators

Did you turn off EAC?

Replicators
Replicators
January 11, 2022 2:28 am
Reply to  Sirillion

I don’t use EAC, could it be because i am on linux? I removed all mods but this and my level or max ammo still doesn’t appear.

Replicators
Replicators
January 11, 2022 5:37 am
Reply to  Sirillion

I fixed it, i wish i could delete these, but i fixed the problem. Sorry for this, great mod though man.

Folstag
Folstag
January 7, 2022 8:30 pm

HI, i have a problem, i cant see the numers on the bars, i can only see the bars and colors but not the numbers. What could it be?

Sirillion
Sirillion
January 8, 2022 1:40 am
Reply to  Folstag

You haven’t turned off EAC.

Bilal
Bilal
January 6, 2022 9:47 pm

Awesome work when will u release the remaining UI?

Sirillion
Sirillion
January 8, 2022 1:40 am
Reply to  Bilal

No release date yet…soon(tm)

Daniel Jayce Sisneros
Daniel Jayce Sisneros
June 6, 2021 4:23 am

Hello, When my friend is hosting a game (pc not server) and I try to join, we have issues with the mod. We are unable to see all the changes. When we both play single player, we have no issues. The hud is perfect. This is only we one of us tries to host a game and the other joins.

Is there another dependency that is required to achieve this in hosted multiplayer?
We both have SMX(hud)(lib)(ui)(ui_PerksUI) and ZMX(hudCP)(uiCP)

danny
danny
July 16, 2021 1:15 am

the compass is in the center of the screen which is very annoying everything else works great