Couple Newbie HUD making questions

[GeneralScott]

Hi people! I was just screwing with Superpie's 1.2 HUD just now and I've isolated a list of a couple things that I don't know how to do and can't figure out.
1) - How do you rotate HUD components?
2) - Is there any easy way to find coordinates of places on the screen, or is it just trial and error?
3) - <I'll find something soon>

Thanks

[Meisseli]

1) I think you can't really rotate items properly but you can experiment with

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align ITEM_ALIGN_RIGHT
align ITEM_ALIGN_LEFT
align ITEM_ALIGN_CENTER
where applicable (health bars, for example). Also just switching the last two rect numbers, for example

   //INVENTORY
    itemDef
    {
      name "inventory"
      rect 158.5 425 325 25
      visible 1
      decoration
      forecolor 1 1 1 .6
      ownerdraw CG_PLAYER_SELECT
    }

   //INVENTORY
    itemDef
    {
      name "inventory"
      rect 158.5 425 25 325
      visible 1
      decoration
      forecolor 1 1 1 .6
      ownerdraw CG_PLAYER_SELECT
    }

works in some items.

2) I think this is correct.

The way I understand it is: x and y values in rect are from "0 0" (for top left corner) to "640 480" (bottom right), which is then scaled to match your screen resolution. The other 2 values are width and height, from the point defined by x and y towards bottom right corner.