Retro RV HUD replaces Nomad Drive's status bars with a round, retro RV-style dashboard. On the road and on foot it shows everything at a glance: speed, fuel, engine temperature, battery, engine health, coolant, your survival stats, a minimap and a compass. It also adds automatic headlights. It uses the game's own font and language, and comes with 12 themes.

Main features

• Round driving cluster: a big round gauge with the speedometer (mph or km/h) in the middle and curved gauges around it for fuel, engine temperature (with an overheat warning) and battery, or turbo boost on vehicles that have it.
• Engine and coolant: engine health (it warns when the engine is worn or broken) and the radiator's coolant level, right on the cluster.
• Fuel range and economy: how far you can go on what's in the tank, and your real fuel use (L/100 km or mpg), measured from how you actually drive. It resets when you refuel.
• Hazards and turn signals: HAZARDS, LEFT and RIGHT lights that blink in step with the RV's own lamps, next to the lights, high beam, ignition and cruise indicators and the odometer.
• Battery gauge: charge %, whether it's charging or draining, and warnings when it's low, flat or missing.
• Cruise control support: with a cruise control mod installed (like Nomad Cruise Control), the HUD finds it by itself and shows a CRUISE light with your set speed. Nothing to set up.
• Survival meters around the minimap: Health, Food, Water and Energy curve around the bottom of the minimap, on foot and while driving, with a poison warning. They stay at full brightness and never fade.
• Minimap: a round, heading-up map of the roads, nearby vehicles and your position, top left. Adjustable range and size, with almost no performance cost.
• Tracers: a dotted trail of where you've been (up to 2 km back by default), and other players as dots in multiplayer. Pick the colour, how far back it goes, and 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.
• The game's font and language: the HUD uses Nomad Drive's own fonts and follows the game's language setting (English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish and Chinese).
• 12 themes: Nomad Drive (the default, matching the game's own look), Wasteland, Classic Chrome, Night Drive, Desert Sun, Retro LCD, Military, Neon, Woodgrain, Rust, Arctic and Sunset Strip.
• Plug and play: in the in-game Mods menu (1.4.5 or newer), switching the HUD on or off, or updating it, happens instantly while you play. No restart.

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

Which file?

Pick the one for your BepInEx: For BepInEx 5 of For BepInEx 6. Nomad Mod Downloader and the in-game Mods menu pick the right one for you.

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!