alright I downloaded the Scar custom HUD, in the VO wiki it says to place it in your vo file and edit config.ini with " Add a skin to your game:
unzip Skin-Folder into your .vendetta folder
edit config.ini
add under [Vendetta]:
skin=<yourskinfolder>/ "

when I do this and start the game all of the chat/typing areas are unreadable and the HUD still does not load, any ideas what I'm doing wrong or a work around to make it work?

Never mind I got it figured out, to anyone else to gets this code confusing where skin=<skinfolder>/ you dont put the "<>" so its just skin=skinfolderlocation