2001 Shield HUD

IMPORTANT — HUD LAYOUT

Set your in-game HUD Layout to Motion Tracker Lower Left before using this mod.

The mod is positioned around this HUD layout. Using another layout will cause HUD elements to appear in the wrong positions.

DESCRIPTION

Halo: Combat Evolved's original 2001 shield and health meter, rebuilt inside Halo Campaign Evolved.

The remaster replaced CE's iconic meter with a modern rounded bar. This puts the original back: the wide shield bar with its descending L-wedge, and eight discrete health segments nested into the notch beneath it — reconstructed from CE's own HUD bitmaps rather than approximated.

Health behaves the way it did in 2001. It drops one whole bar at a time instead of sliding, turns amber at five bars and red at two, and the health cross changes colour with it.

When your shields break, the bar pulses red in time with the game's own low-shield warning. Overshield fills it green.

Everything is drawn at runtime. Nothing is patched, repacked or overwritten, so disabling the mod returns the stock HUD exactly as it was.

INSTALLATION

Requires UE4SS. If you can already run UE4SS mods, you're set.

• []Extract the archive.[/]

  []Copy both folders from

  Mods\into:

  ...\Halo Campaign Evolved\Meteorite\Binaries\Win64\ue4ss\Mods\[/]

  mods.txtin that same folder and add these two lines above the

  ; Built-in keybinds must remain last.comment:

  HaloCEClassicHudNative : 1

  HaloCEClassicHud : 1[/]

  Both are required. One draws the meter, while the other supplies the artwork and layout. Enabling only one gets you nothing.

  Do not rename the folders. The mod locates its artwork by folder name.

  To uninstall, set both entries to

  0or delete the folders.

  MAIN FEATURES

  • []The original CE meter — wide shield bar with the L-wedge, with eight discrete health segments nested into the notch

    []Discrete health bars — health drops in whole bars instead of using a sliding fill; amber at 5, red at 2, health cross included

    []Shields-down alert — pulses the shield bar red, tuned to land on the game's own low-shield warning beep

    []Overshield support — fills the bar green using Campaign Evolved's own overshield colour

    []CE-style ammo readout — magazine count hidden with an

    xseparator, like CE's

    x36[/]

    []Modern chrome suppressed — objective panel, keybind prompts and bracket frames hidden for a cleaner screen

    []Smooth shield regeneration — 101 distinct fill steps, driven per frame from the real shield value

    []Live configuration —

    tuning.txtis re-read while the game runs. Edit it, alt-tab back into the game, and see the changes immediately. Every position, scale and colour threshold is adjustable

    []Light footprint — about 40 MB of textures, no pak files and no patched assets[/]

    REQUIREMENTS

    • []UE4SS for Halo Campaign Evolved — required; this mod will not run without it[/]

      []Both included mod folders must be enabled in

      mods.txt[/]

      Placement was dialled in on a single display. On a different resolution or aspect ratio, the meter may sit slightly off.

      The primary values to adjust in

      tuning.txtare:

      cluster_shield_x

      cluster_shield_y

      shield_scale

      All three apply live while the game is running.

      SHOUT OUTS

      Bungie, for a HUD still worth rebuilding twenty-five years later.

      The Halo Campaign Evolved team — the game's own HUD assets and overshield colour were used directly, so the reconstruction matches the game rather than fighting it.

      The UE4SS / RE-UE4SS developers. None of this exists without runtime reflection into a shipped game.