need help removing the in-flight interface panels

Thu Jul 29, 2004 12:04 am by hairy

I've been trying to remove all of the interface panels lately, for the sake of taking good screenshots that are not cluttered with the obnoxious corner windows, and so far I have been able to remove all but the Status window (weapon list) and the neuronet bar (controls chat, navmap, inventory, status, etc). Here is a picture to illustrate:

http://alyarb.spymac.net/alexis/412.jpg

As you can see, everything is gone but the two status windows. I've done this by only making changes to DATA\INTERFACE\HUD\hud.ini by removing the

[Target

[Core

[Receiver

[ContactList

[Maneuvers

sections. Removing any of the other sections of the .ini either has no effect at all, or will crash the game when I load a character. If anybody can help me out with removing more parts of the in-game interface windows i'd be much obliged.

Thu Jul 29, 2004 12:28 am by LordFjord

you can probably remove the "turret mode" and stuff text by editingin the dlls - find the right one (resources.dll?) and just take it out.

to the other bars:
im not 100% sure but i remember seeing the icons in one of the .cmp or .3db files of the interface. you could probably remove/replace them.

it might be possible to create "FL HUD skins" with this stuff.

Fjord

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Excelcia Mod Leading Developer

Thu Jul 29, 2004 5:22 am by kaegogi

Why don't you try creating a temporary folder to move all the .3db/.cmp files for the hud into. If those can't be found then they can't be displayed.

Thu Jul 29, 2004 11:12 am by hairy

wouldn't that just crash the game?

and.. i'm not very familiar with editing dlls and cmp files..

Thu Jul 29, 2004 11:29 am by kaegogi

I haven't got a clue if that'll crash the game or not. You'd have to try it to find out. Just make a new folder in there and put all those .3db and .cmp files in the folder. If FL crashes then just pull them back out.

Thu Jul 29, 2004 7:16 pm by hairy

with a little more .ini tweaking, and removing those icons (some stuff in the neuronet folder also), i was able to do it. thanks for your help. if you're interested in any of the shots i've taken so far..

http://alyarb.spymac.net/alexis/shots.zip

Thu Jul 29, 2004 8:06 pm by kaegogi

Could you package what you've done as a mod so that everyone can take nice screenshots without having to edit?

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