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Handling=skipBefore we discovered how to toggle things with a keypress, the HUD was always off, no ability to toggle it on, and I too enjoyed the challenge of finding stations and planetary outposts via the compass. I confess that I sometimes now cheat by "pinging" the HUD on approach, mainly to visualize if the station or planetary base is behind the planet, something the compass does not show. Otherwise it can be pretty time-consuming to find your approach in 3D space using a 2D compass (especially planetary bases). Still, it's doable, as that's all I had back before the toggle! Oh, and try combat with fixed weapons without a HUD - I found that to be a little too hard. Even WWII airplanes have a targeting reticle.It is funny how someone wants to remove the annoying dirty glass effects, keeping the HUD, while I just wish for the opposite.
I think Stations should offer a canopy cleaning service beside re-fuelling, repainting and rearming.
I have to repeat myself, but I enjoy the game so much more now. Approaching stations in Supercruise by using the navigation screen, or in normal space by observing the distance in the target panel, having a clean view on space and objects. It's what I always wanted and never thought to actually see in ED.
Having a clean view outside the canopy and no artificial effects such as space dust kind of aids to focus more on what you see and develop a better feel for actual speed relative to target, etc.
I play Assist Off and the game feels almost like Rogue System. What a great mod.
If I were a Windows programmer, I'd do it. That's not to say I might not give it a go someday. I started messing around with C# to do some Space Engineers scripting awhile back. Now if Visual Basic is still a thing and Visual Studio is free, then I could probably whip something up quicker. Also, I haven't done any Windows programming in YEARS (VB showing my age), so I don't know much about these universal apps. My high-level programming languages are Python (favorite), PHP (yuck), Javascript, Objective-C (Mac / iOS), to a lesser extent Java, and C but for low-level (microcontroller and driver) programming. Only recently have I returned to Windows after being a Linux / Mac guy for years. [end biography]
Old Duck, I think you're doing a bang up job on this as it is!
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1. Make a backup of your d3dx.ini in your 'elite-dangerous-64' folder (very important)
2. Go to the original d3dx.ini that came with the 3Dmigoto download and overwrite the one in your 'elite-dangerous-64' folder.
3. Open the file with a text editor (Notepad is fine).
4. Scroll down until you find the following:
hunting - set this to - hunting=1
marking mode - set this to - marking mode=pink
The lines below this show the key presses you need to scroll through the pixel shaders.
When you find what you want (it will be turned pink) press the mark_pixelshader key
This will copy the hash to your clipboard (and put additional information in the Shaderfixes folder)
5. Use the hash to write to your personal backup copy from 1.
6. Tell everyone on the forum what you have found!
Regards
MP
The mod works by turning off specific shaders, but unfortunately Frontier often uses the same shaders for multiple graphical elements. I had so hoped to get rid of that annoying popup in the middle of the screen - "Supercruise Assist Active" and all the other dumb messages that pop up in my face. Unfortunately that's not how Frontier programmed their shaders. So what we have is what we have.
Last time I installed 3DMigoto, the latest version was 1.3.16. Or was it .18? I can't recall. Unless something radical changed, the configuration file should work fine regardless.
That's odd. It should!
There are two hashes that turn off canopy HUD, 74a61bc54382d4d9 and e61a98e9d493cdea. The first one does this by removing the glass itself, so that it's basically the visual equivalent of having your canopy 100% blown out (which, if you've never experienced, makes the canopy HUD unviewable as it's supposedly projected on the glass). The second hash leaves the glass and removes the HUD elements themselves. I actually like seeing the glass scratches in VR, so I often use e61a98e9d493cdea, but not when out exploring because it also messes with the FSS.
Anyway, try each of those and see what happens. Both should technically work, but perhaps one will work for you better than the other. Oh, and if you frost up your window using the first hash, it causes all the HUD UI to reappear.
These settings already exist in the GraphicsConfiguration.xml file, so all you need to do is press CTRL-F and then "PrototypeLightingBalancesEnabled" to find its entry (change to zero). The "StarInstanceCount" is a little bit more tricky because there are multiple entries for this, one for each quality setting for the galaxy. If your PC can handle it, I'd just change ALL of them to 10000 (or whatever number you want).
