I'm already using the 1.3 patch but I disabled the giant blue blocks behind the standard HUD because it only made it clunky.  I was really hoping to find something along the lines of a mod that carried over the HUD from SWBF to SWBF2.

I personally have no experience with writing mods at all or anything of the sort.  Personally, I've always been a fan of SWBF1 (probably pure nostalgia) over SWBF2, but I love the amount of content people produce for the latter. Even with all this content the SWBF2 HUD drives me up a wall.  Is the a way someone could write a mod to possible replace the SWBF2 HUD with the cleaner HUD from SWBF1 or a custom one all around? Or if there are any HUD mods someone could point me in the right direction to; it would be greatly appreciated.