Retro RV HUD replaces Nomad Drive's status bars with a retro RV-style dashboard. On the road and on foot it shows everything at a glance: speed, fuel, engine temperature, battery, survival stats, a minimap and a compass. It also adds automatic headlights. Pick from 7 colour themes, and configure every part of it.

Main features

• Driving dashboard: speedometer (mph or km/h), fuel gauge and engine temperature with an overheat warning, plus lights, high beam and ignition indicators.
• Battery gauge: your vehicle's battery right in the dashboard: charge %, whether it's charging or draining, and roughly how long until it's empty or full. Warns when it's low, flat or missing.
• Cruise control support: with a cruise control mod installed, the HUD finds it automatically and shows a CRUISE light with your set speed, plus a marker on the speedometer. Nothing to set up.
• On-foot meters: LED bar meters for Health, Food, Water and Energy, with a poison warning.
• Minimap: a circular, heading-up map of the roads, nearby vehicles and your position, in the top-left corner. Adjustable range and size, with almost no performance cost.
• Tracers: the minimap draws a dotted trail of where you've been (up to 2 km back by default), and shows other players as dots in multiplayer. Pick your tracer colour, set how far back it goes, and set a key to clear it.
• Compass strip across the top of the screen.
• Auto headlights: on at dusk and off at dawn while the engine runs. The hours are configurable.
• 7 themes: Wasteland, Classic Chrome, Night Drive, Desert Sun, Retro LCD, Military and Neon.
• Fades when idle: while you drive, the survival gauges dim when all your stats are fine.

Keys

Change any key in the game's Settings > Controls (RETRO RV HUD section) or in BepInEx\config\NomadHUD.cfg.

• F7 show / hide the HUD
• F8 show / hide the game's own bars
• F9 next theme
• F6 show / hide the battery gauge

Installation

Easiest: press Download or Subscribe here and let Nomad Mod Downloader or the in-game Mods menu install it for you.

By hand:

1. Install BepInEx for Nomad Drive into your Nomad Drive folder (in Steam: right-click Nomad Drive > Manage > Browse local files).
2. Start the game once, then close it. This creates the BepInEx folders.
3. Extract this mod's zip into the same Nomad Drive folder. You should end up with BepInEx\plugins\NomadHUD\NomadHUD.dll.
4. Start het spel.

To uninstall, delete the BepInEx\plugins\NomadHUD folder. The mod doesn't touch your saves.

Good to know

• Built for Nomad Drive Early Access 1.0.1. Game updates may break it until it's updated.
• Only you need the mod in multiplayer. It works without other players having it.

Shout-outs

Thanks to the Nomad Drive developers for a great road-trip game, to the BepInEx team for the mod loader, and to Andreas Pardeike for Harmony, which the mod uses to hook into the game. Big thanks to tecmyit for the cruise control mod: Retro RV HUD shows its cruise status right on the dashboard. And thanks to cookiecontainer for testing!