Tracking inventory items on hud w/o inventory bar

[LolaHThicc]

Hi it's me again back with more simple questions

I have an item that is a de-facto currency that i would like to be tracked on the hud. Internally it's currently a inventory item that just doesn't show in there. I suppose i could just make it appear in the inv bar as is, but that's just too clunky for my taste.

Just to convince you that i made a healthy attempt at it myself, My idea was to draw a string to the hud, but i don't know what the syntax is to return the number of currency the player has!
the not at all accurate basically pseudo-code, that would occupy hud.zs within a custom function:

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 DrawString(expfnt, String.Format("%d", Inventory.expsml1 ,(88,-23),DI_SCREEN_CENTER_BOTTOM|DI_ITEM_CENTER_BOTTOM|DI_TEXT_ALIGN_RIGHT);

the biggest challenge of learning zscript has been keeping track of all the kinds of terms and formatting needed to get stuff to work, i still haven't gotten a very firm grasp of most of the stuff
anyway, any input is greatly appreciated, as always!

[Jarewill]

You are gonna want to use FindInventory to retrieve a pointer to the item and then read its Amount directly.
Here's some example code:

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int itemamount = 0; //Display 0 if the item is not found
let item = CPlayer.mo.FindInventory("Cell"); //Get a pointer to the item
If(item){itemamount = item.Amount;} //If pointer exists, update the integer with its amount
DrawString(mAmountFont,FormatNumber(itemamount),(88,-23),DI_SCREEN_CENTER_BOTTOM|DI_ITEM_CENTER_BOTTOM,DI_TEXT_ALIGN_RIGHT); //Display it

[LolaHThicc]

works great, thank you!!