i know I can't use the hudey.psd file but i recall reading that he was using it ingame but it wasn't transparent. how can I do that? I'm thinking he edited the status bar but if anyone could tell me how it'd be appreciated.

Pez made an ingame version of the hud, but I'm not entirely sure how, but if you have the psd, I'm sure you can remake it somehow... I can't remember why he didn't use the ingame version for the movie, but it wasn't because of transparency, as you can do that.

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Just use /hud_group*_picture and /hud_group*_pic* cvars to set background picture to this group* hud elements and put others (ammo numbers, images, etc) on it (/hud_health_place group1 + RTFM about mqwcl hud). PNGs with alpha are supported, may be other formats too.

So you're telling me it is quite possible to arrange a dde3 hud-look-alike?
Where can I get those icons from?

It looks quite stunning \o/