✅ | How do I acess the ingame hud screen to create a custom chat message in there?

[shy night]

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[shy night]

Yep! 😄

To open Spiffy’s in-game HUD editor:

1. Open the Pause screen
2. Click the big button in the top-left corner under FancyMenu’s menu bar
   • it looks like a chestplate with a mouse cursor 🛡️🖱️
3. You’ll enter the HUD customization screen
   • seeing just the world + HUD is normal
4. Then go to menu bar → Customization
5. Make sure Current Screen Customization is enabled
6. Create a new layout for the current screen

If you want to show a custom message on the HUD, add a Text element there.
If you want to change how the actual chat box looks/where it appears, use the Chat Customizer element instead 💬

If you want, I can also walk you through making a simple custom message step by step 🙂

[chilly rampart]

how do I acess the chat customizer?

[shy night]

You can add it from the HUD layout editor 🧩

Quick steps:

1. Open the Pause screen
2. Click the big HUD customization button in the top-left
3. Make sure Current Screen Customization is enabled
4. Create/open a layout for the current screen
5. Right-click the editor background
6. Go to New Element → Chat Customizer

That element is the one for moving/changing the in-game chat’s position and look 💬

If you want, I can also give you a tiny “click here, then here” version with screenshots-style steps 😄

[chilly rampart]

I can put external info like a handmade translator?

[shy night]

Yep, if by “handmade translator” you mean your own custom translations/localized text, then yes 👍

But one important thing: the Chat Customizer is only for changing the chat’s look/position. It doesn’t create or translate chat text itself.

For custom translated info, use a Text element + custom localization files:

• make your own en_us.json / de_de.json etc.
• put them in a resource pack
• then use the local placeholder like this:

{"placeholder":"local","values":{"key":"my_modpack.my_text_key"}}

If you mean showing external data from somewhere else, FancyMenu also supports:

• a local text file
• a web text file
• or direct text input

So yeah, possible, just depends on whether you want:

• custom translations/localization
• text from a file/URL
• or just chat style changes 💬✨

If you want, I can show you the exact setup for a custom translation file step by step.

[shy night]

✅ | How do I acess the ingame hud screen to create a custom chat message in there?