Custom HUD

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The HUD, or heads-up display, are the in-game element such as health and ammo indicators, the killfeed, etc. Custom HUDs are very important to the competitive scene because they usually focus more on usability. Many competitive players prefer custom HUDs over the default one as they clutter the screen less and show more relevant information to the player.

List of HUDs

  • TF2HUDS.net - A site where you can find the most recent and up-to-date custom huds.


Name of HUD Name of creator Website
8bit HUD - Link
A Toasty HUD - Link
Anthal's minHUD Anthal Link
BladeHUD Gunblade Link
broeselhud broesel Link
clownHUD - Link
Community HUD Reborn Cheezyyyy Link
Deli's HUD Deli Link
Doodle HUD Doodles Link
drdonutman's HUD drdonutman Link
e.v.e HUD Sinders Link
Ell's HUD ell Link
FlameHUD - Link
flatHUD flatline Link
fnhud - Link
FrankenHUD 6000 ANGRY BEES Link
G-Mang HUD - Link
Garm3n HUD Garm3n Link
grapehud grape Link
HUDAS Iscariote quartz + Sir Villeta Link
kzahud Kaiza Link
KBNHud Jotun Link
keredhud Kered13 Link
KNHUD chippy Link
Metro HUD - Link
M0rehud - Link
Nescau HUD - Link
odhud - Link
omp's HUD omp Link
OTL's HUD OTL Link
pudHUD - Link
PVHUD povohat Link
QuartzHUD - Link
radshud - Link
rayshud Rays Link
ryuswagwahud - Link
Roxas' HUD Prof Roxas Link
shlaner's HUD - Link
Soft HUD - Link
sylverhud - Link
washy hud - Link
yA_HUD whayay Link
ZimHUD - Link

Another list of custom HUDs can be seen here.

How to install

Since the Steampipe update, custom files are much more easily installed and managed.


To install any custom HUD you should follow the steps below:

  1. Extract the main contents of the HUD package you downloaded (usually HUDs come in .zip or .rar format), they should contain a resource, scripts and/or materials folders.
  2. Go to the Steam/steamapps/common/team fortress 2/tf/custom directory on your hard drive
  3. Create a folder and name it to your liking (eg: mycustomhud)
  4. Copy the extracted folders into the folder you created in the custom directory
  5. Start the game and test the HUD you installed

Note: The game should be closed while you do this.

How to create custom HUDs

For most HUD editing tasks only a text processor is needed, this makes it very easy to create and edit custom huds.

There are some guides/tutorials created by various members of the community on the subject, which can be seen below:

Flame's Guide To HUDs (.pdf)
Doodles HUD editing guide
Rays HUD tutorials (Youtube Playlist)
Boen's Guide to HUDs Part 1
Boen's Guide to HUDs Part 2

Other Guides