VECTOR HUD

Press one key and a flight-instrument HUD draws itself around you — every ring, tape and glyph computed as vector geometry at runtime, not one of them a texture.

The boot

Press J. The HUD does not fade in — it is built, in five beats, in under two seconds.

Registration marks slide in from off-screen and spark as they seat, establishing the corners before anything else exists. Every ring and gauge is then drawn, the pen running from each arc's fixed end toward its live value, so a gauge can never overshoot its own track. Instruments flash brighter than full for three ticks at the moment they lock. The chromatic fringe starts wide and tightens as the optics focus. Text resolves last, each label scrambling through same-width glyphs so no line shifts by a single pixel while it settles.

Press J again and it strikes itself back down.

What it shows you

Flight instruments

The HUD reads like a cockpit the moment you leave the ground.

Volumetric holo-map

A tilted holographic table of the terrain around you, sitting near-horizontal so it reads as a volume rather than a top-down minimap. It follows your vertical look — glance up and the table rises to show the air above, look down and it lays flat to show your footing. Indoors it cuts away everything between you and the table, so a wall at your back never blocks the view into the middle of it. Hostiles float as pins at their true height, each with a drop-line to the floor beneath them.

Awareness and alerts

Alerts are staged in four tiers — calm, caution, warning, imminent. A sound is only re-issued when the tier rises; while the tier holds, you get one quiet reminder per interval and nothing more. Nothing sounds while the game is paused. No audio is bundled: every cue is a vanilla note block, pitched and paced by tier.

Ten instrument suites

Themes change layout, not only colour — each one hides a different set of instruments, so the sparse suites are genuinely sparse rather than the same HUD in a new palette. Press H for the theme table.

Fair play by default

Six features ship disabled, and they are the six that a server admin would call cheating:

There is no separate "fair play edition" to hunt down — one jar, with the defaults set so it is safe to drop into a modpack as shipped. Turn any of them on in config/vectorhud.json, or with /vectorhud followed by the feature name, for your own singleplayer world. Check the rules where you play before you do.

Keys and configuration

All four are rebindable under Controls. Every panel has its own toggle in config/vectorhud.json and under /vectorhud, and /vectorhud scale resizes the whole assembly between 0.5 and 2.0.

Requirements

Every build is client-side. Nothing is installed on the server, and nothing needs to be.

What differs between builds

The 1.21.1 and 1.20.1 builds come from one codebase. The 26.2 build is a separate port against a different rendering API, and five things have not been carried across yet:

Everything else — boot, all ten themes, instruments, alerts, holo-map — is in every build.

Notes

• No textures. Every element of the HUD is geometry generated at runtime, so nothing gets blurry at any resolution and the jar stays under 200 KB. The only image in the build is the mod's own 128 px icon.
• No bundled audio. Alert cues are vanilla note blocks, pitched and paced by tier.
• Nothing phones home.
• Modpacks are welcome with credit. Reuploading the jar elsewhere is not.
• Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or containing assets from any film, studio or franchise.

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