Installation

Installation of the hud remains the same regardless of what you intend on using (stream/players hud, etc). As an FYI, CriticalFlaw and Revan are currently developing TF2HUD.Editor, which will allow you to install and customize budhud (and other huds) quickly and easily.

Click here to see the latest release, and feel free to join CriticalFlaw's Discord here if you'd like to make suggestions!

Note

Here's a video explaining how to install the HUD (Updated November 11th, 2023): And here is the old video explanation (January 1st, 2021)

Download

Click this link to find the latest release.

GitHub will always be the best place to find the HUD, but you can also download it from comfig huds or TF2Huds.

Installation (TL;DR)

• Download the hud and then extract budhud-master into your ../tf/custom folder
  • Create the custom folder if it does not exist
  • See the picture below on how to find your custom folder quickly

Important

Make sure the path to the HUD ends up being ../tf/custom/budhud-master, not ../tf/custom/budhud-master/budhud-master

Installation

1. Ensure that you have a custom folder in your TF2 directory. The default Team Fortress 2 directory is located in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Team Fortress 2\tf\. If you do not have a custom folder in this directory, create one.
   • For linux, this path is located at: ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Team Fortress 2/tf/custom/

The easiest way to find your Team Fortress 2 directory is through Steam.

1. Open up Steam
2. Click on `LIBRARY`
3. Right click `Team Fortress 2` and click on `Properties...`
4. Navigate to the `Installed Files` tab on the left
5. Next to "Size of installation:", click `Browse...`

2. Extract the hud with your preferred extraction program (I personally use 7zip). Once extracted, you should have a folder called budhud-master.

3. Move budhud-master into your custom folder.

Your file directory should now look similar to this picture:

Important

The installation path for any TF2 HUD is ..\tf\custom\<HUD_NAME>\<HUD_FILES>, where <HUD_FILES> are the typical folders/files you would see in a hud:

• cfg*
• materials*
• resource
• scripts
• sound*
• info.vdf

*HUDs may not always have all of these folders

Having these files/folders anywhere else (such as ..\tf\custom\budhud-master\budhud-master) will result in the hud not working.

For budhud:

• Incorrect: ..\tf\custom\budhud-master\budhud-master
• Incorrect: ..\tf\custom\_budhud
• Correct: ..\tf\custom\budhud-master

Troubleshooting

Check out HUD Troubleshooting.

Required Files

Here is a breakdown of what files are required and which are not:

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