Ok so I've scoured the web and this forums trying to find an answer but so far nothing. My HUD has NEVER worked, ever. I never played SS1 so I had no idea that even existed until I watched a video for plot type I don't understand (I still don't understand the caravan plots) and so I wondered why is it that I have never had any sort of HUD other than the vanilla one.
Now I am using DEF_UI and I have followed Kingaths video on that, also tried separately to just load the patch. I use vortex for all mod downloads and installs. But nothing has worked so far. Due to this thread I tried disabling Full Dialog Menu but still nothing. This are not the only mods I have so I am hesitant to keep changing stuff as I just got the game to be stable enough to play for several hours continuously.
So I also want to know if this is not something that's behind the any quest, I haven't finished the full quest (which is amazing btw) and since I never played SS1, I have no idea what awaits me.
I can build plots, residential, municipal, commercial, etc and I do see the holo icons above the plots in workshop mode (even though I still don't understand what they mean) but I have no Resources or Info HUD.
Sometimes, very rarely, the HUD will appear for a brief second upon entering a settlement to then disappear. I have tried setting up hotkeys via MCM, setting up the HUD to always show via holotape and MCM but nothing.
Yesterday after much reinstalling of DEF_UI and what not I was able to see the HUD semiconsistently in Sanctuary and Red Rocket but was completely stuck on vanilla HUD, no amount of changes to DEF_UI worked at all, until once again I reinstalled everything to then have DEF_UI perfectly fine but SS2 HUDs missing completely. Of course HUD framework is installed.
I'm not opposed to stop using DEF_UI if anyone can point me to a HUD that can be small in size or customizable, I HATE the huge HUD on this game with a passion, it's completely not PC friendly at all. Also if anyone knows how I can scale down the vanilla HUD menu that would be great, the size is just massive on my 1440p monitor.
I also installed Workshop Plus to see if that helps but nothing. I also have the hotkeys manager mod and I can see the hotkeys for SS2 there but they don't work. I tried using keys not mapped to anything and remapping common keys, nothing.
If anyone has any input or needs any more info I would be happy to help. This is by far the best mod I have used. I am one of those rare cases that has never finished any of the main or faction quests in FO4 despite sinking more than 300 hours in the game, mostly just doing minutemen stuff and settlement building. This was all before this amazing mod appeared, imagine my joy upon playing this. Thank you all, truly, thank you for making me play FO4 again