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What I was wanting to ask about; I'm wanting to do some recording of the survivor mode levels as well, also without the hud, but unfortunately this mod (and all others I've tried, including Cinematic Tools) doesn't remove the tasks and timer UI for survivor mode. I'm assuming it's stored in a different file from WEAPONSTUFF.GFX
Personally, I'm having huge difficulty with trying to dabble in modding myself; I'm finding myself stumped after unpacking the UI.PAK; can't seem to find any editor or converter that will work with the .GFX files; what comes up in Notepad++ is unworkable mush. So long after the fact I know it's a big ask, but I was wondering if you - who have managed to work with these files before - might have any ideas for this? It would be so massively appreciated. If not, fully understood.
Right after commenting this, I decided to try a hail mary, and it worked! I'll doccument it here in case, some time in the future, even one person comes looking for the same solution.
Using OpenCAGE (The Open Source Alien Isolation Modding tool; there are other things with the same name that come up first if you google search just the name), I used the "Game Asset Editor" -> "UI Import/Export" to directly access UI.PAK without having to extract it -> drilled down into the file tree and deleted CHALLENGELEADERBOARDCOMPONENT.GFX and CHALLENGEMAPOVERLAY.GFX.
The game loads fine, loads the challenge maps just fine too, and in conjunction with all the rest of the UI being removed by your own tweaks, it completely removes all hud from the survivor mode maps! One minor downside is that there's now no UI once you complete the map, but that's basically no issue considering anyone who wants this change likely wants it to record footage and that's it; completing the level is unneccesary.
This is fantastic, I'm so thrilled. Thanks again for the mod itself and for replying back with an idea. Maybe if you do a new version you might want to include this info in the readme for anyone that wants it, or even incorporate the change itself as an optional file.
Or it could be the EGS overlay causing the issue, try disabling that if possible.
It will toggle the HUD and button prompts but not the crosshair.
https://www.mediafire.com/file/9qq3hrjcnx8mgga/AlienHudToggle.rar/file
I included a Readme with instructions.
- SOLVED -
After installing other mods the problem was fixed.
Thanks, excellent mod otherwise :)