HUD editor¶

The HUD editor is your live HUD with every enabled element outlined and named. Drag an element to move it, scroll over it or drag its corner to resize it. Positions are stored relative to an anchor, so they hold when the window size or the GUI scale changes.

Opening it¶

The editor is always there behind the Right Shift menu: while the menu is open, any press that is not on the menu goes to your HUD. To arrange the whole screen, click the eye in the bottom left corner to put the menu away, or bind a key to Open the HUD editor in Options ▸ Controls ▸ Xol, which opens the editor with the menu already put away.

In a world, the game stays visible behind a light tint. Outside a world, and for elements that have nothing to show at the moment, sample values are drawn so every element can be placed. Conditions such as Show or Hide while typing in chat are ignored in the editor for the same reason.

If no HUD element is switched on, the editor says: "No HUD modules are enabled. Turn some on in the Mods menu."

Moving¶

Press on an element and drag. The element follows the pointer from the spot you took hold of, and it cannot leave the screen. While you drag, it snaps; see Snap guides. Releasing the mouse re-anchors it; see Anchors.

Clicking an element selects it. The selected element has an outline in the menu's theme color and a label above it with its name and size, for example "Key Strokes 100%". Every other element carries its name next to its box. Where elements overlap, the smallest box under the pointer is the one you get, so a large element such as the chat window never swallows a small one on top of it. Clicking empty space clears the selection.

Resizing¶

The range is 50% to 300%. An element never grows past the edge of the screen while you drag its corner.

Snap guides¶

While you drag, the element's near edge, center or far edge snaps to the closest line within 4 pixels, separately for the horizontal and the vertical direction. A guide line in the menu's theme color is drawn along the line it snapped to.

Distances are in GUI pixels, the unit Minecraft's interface uses at the current GUI scale. Snapping can be turned off with HUD snapping in General, or with the grid button in the bottom left corner of the menu. Off, an element goes exactly where you drop it.

Anchors¶

A position is stored as one of nine anchors plus an offset pointing inward from it.

When you drop an element, the editor keeps it exactly where it is on screen but re-expresses that position from the nearest anchor: the screen is divided into thirds each way, and the third that contains the element's center decides. An element dropped near the bottom right corner therefore keeps its distance from the bottom and right edges when the window is resized or the GUI scale changes, rather than its distance from the top left.

On every frame the position is clamped so the element stays on screen, even if the window has become smaller than the saved offset allows.

Keys¶

The editor's bar¶

While the menu is put away, a small bar sits in the upper third of the screen.

Under the buttons: "Drag: move Scroll or corner: scale" and "R: reset Arrows: nudge Tab: move this bar". A press on the bar never starts a drag of an element underneath it. On a narrow screen the layout switcher moves onto a row of its own.

Default positions¶

Some default positions overlap when several of these elements are on at once; move them where you want them. Modules without a HUD element, such as Zoom or Crosshair, do not appear in the editor.

What is saved¶

Positions and sizes belong to the active layout and are saved when the menu closes. See Layouts, export and import.