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Notice: The info here is very outdated, please refer to the readme.md in the download link for now.

Hideous Helmet is an addon for Hideous Destructor (Forum link).

It adds a helmet (HUD Helmet) that will unhide/show all of the HUD, and provide some defense, mostly for the head.
Some of the HUD is hidden without the helmet.
Note: You may toggle which part of the HUD gets hidden when not wearing the helmet.

Info about the helmet:

• Shows all of the HUD when worn.
• Provides a bit of defense, mostly for the head.
• Can be worn without removing armour.
• Should be noted that you can use medikit with the helmet on.
• Can be removed with `hh_strip`.
• Will take damage and break like any armour.

Spawns at any armour and marine corpse. (hopefully)
Jackboots with helmets should also drop them on death.
(You can tweak the spawn/drop rate)

Spoiler: Loadout codes

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• hdh : hud helmet (spare)
• hhw : hud helmet

Download from here
and hope that it doesn't break, because i don't know how to make addons for hdest well

Changelog

Any mod that brings immersion to the game I download right away! And this is one of them, the lack of a helmet has always bothered me! If you plan to improve the mod with any option to show a helmet hud it would be great, I already made a sprite if you want to use it! Another thing, can you make that when you use the medkit you didnt strip the helmet? I think it would be more convenient, and even more so if you plan to give some armor in the future! Great addon!

I think it'd be a tad nice if it had headshot defence, but doing so would cause the HUD to malfunction or otherwise result in the helmet getting instantly destroyed.

Making a item necessary to provide the HUD is a pretty immersive idea nonetheless.

... Is it possible to make a headshot preventative item in HDest without re-writing a ton of HDest code?

HD already has headshot protection; standard armors may look like vests but they include (lighter) leg armor and a helmet.

Update (10/04/2021):
"Hopefully this fixes most of the major problems"

• Fixed HUD not being hidden when using the automap.
• Helmet can only be stripped through `hh_strip`, or by attempting to equip another helmet while wearing one.
• You can now customize what gets hidden when the helmet isn't equipped. (By default, only the player status is hidden.)
• Removed whitelist overwriting from the options menu.
• Helmet now has a bit of defense. Only applies to certain damage types.
• Helmet will now only lose durability to certain types of damage. (might need some tweaking)
• Should spawn a bit more frequently now.

...and it appears there's some debug text showing up... Should be fixed now.

Update(14/04/2021):
"TIL that bullets calculate damage on their own"

• Hopefully fixed helmet spawning with 144 durability.
• Reworked helmet defense, now provides more defense to a headshot than a body/leg shot. (might need some more work)
• Helmet is now more durable due to the new defense rework...
• ...which also fixed helmet getting more durable depending on what armour type you were wearing.

Update(16/04/2021):

• Added a "bleed indicator", with a "wound counter". (both are toggleable)
• Tweaked defense a bit.

Update(18/04/2021)[1]:
"I hate bugs"

• Fixed the backpack giving more than 1 helmet when you have 0 helmets in your inventory...
• ...which also fixes `summon hhelmet` spawning more than 1 helmet...
• ...and also fixes the bulk of the helmet being wrong while in the backpack.
• Wearing the helmet will now always display a message. (unless hd_helptext is false)

Update(18/04/2021)[2]:

• Fixed helmet not equipping when holding use on pickup.
• "Hide weapon status" shouldn't hide anything in slot 9 anymore...
• ...which fixes not being able to see what you have while incapacitated.
• Added option, "Slot 4 shows weapon status". Only takes effect when "Hide weapon status" is enabled. (might change this)

Update(22/04/2021):
"The 'decide your own RNG' update"

• Fixed `give hhelmetworn` having 144 durability. (hopefully)
• Added options to tweak helmet spawn rate.
• Armour now spawns helmets more frequently. (50% chance by default)
• Helmet jackboots now drop helmets.

Update(23/04/2021)[1]:
"I probably should've added more options for 'Hide weapon status' early on"

• Added helmet sprite for Freedoom.
• Added better options for "Hide weapon status"

Update(23/04/2021)[2]:

• Removed unused option "Slot 4 shows weapon status"

Update(23/04/2021)[3]:
"How did I miss this"

• Reworked "Hide weapon status" options, mag manager should display fine now.

Edit: and it appears i used the wrong cvars for the option menu, should be fixed now

Update(26/04/2021) [1]:

• Fixed helmet changing to durability 50, when you had more than 1 helmet.