[Feature] Global to Hide/Show all HUD elements

[FDinolfo]

GZDoom version

GZDoom 4.14.0

Which game are you running with GZDoom?

None

What Operating System are you using?

Windows 11

If Other OS, please describe

No response

Relevant hardware info

No response

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

We've just spent a good bit of time trying to come up with a way of hiding and restoring HUDs. It was pointed out that this probably should be made into a proper method, so I'm making the feature request for it.

The ZS for it is this, but obviously, if it's an internal method, it could be refined.

class HUDController : EventHandler
{
    bool hudhidden[MAXPLAYERS];
    ui Vector2 savedhudOffset[MAXPLAYERS];
    const HIDEHUDOFFSET = 9000;

    static void HideHUD(int playernumber)
    {
        if (playernumber >= MAXPLAYERS) return;
        let handler = HUDController(EventHandler.Find('HUDController'));
        if (handler)
        {
            handler.hudhidden[playernumber] = true;
        }
    }

    static void ShowHUD(int playernumber)
    {
        if (playernumber >= MAXPLAYERS) return;
        let handler = HUDController(EventHandler.Find('HUDController'));
        if (handler)
        {
            handler.hudhidden[playernumber] = false;
        }
    }

    override void UiTick()
    {
        if (hudhidden[consoleplayer] && statusbar.drawOffset.x != HIDEHUDOFFSET)
        {
            savedhudOffset[consoleplayer] = statusbar.drawOffset;

	    StatusBar.SetSize(0,0,0,0,0);
            statusbar.drawOffset = (HIDEHUDOFFSET, HIDEHUDOFFSET);
        }

        if (!hudhidden[consoleplayer] && statusbar.drawOffset.x == HIDEHUDOFFSET)
        {
            statusbar.drawOffset = savedhudOffset[consoleplayer];
            statusbar.Init();
        }
    }
}

Describe the solution you'd like

No response

Describe alternatives you've considered

No response

Add any other context or screenshots about the feature request here.

No response

[madame-rachelle]

Is the request for it to be mod accessible? Because there's already the togglehud command for taking screenshots.

[FDinolfo]

Yes. So mods that don't make their own huds can hide it when making cutscenes. This works for now, at least, but a mod accessible method would be ideal. Didn't find any mention of togglehud on the wiki, so I'm assuming that's not externally accessible.