Disabling HUD and other stuff

Pandemik · Feb 10, 2015

Hey guys,

Does anyone know how to disable the HUD and the ship interiors?

I ask because I want to take some 8k resolution screenshots of various systems in the game while exploring, and some 4k resolution shots of combat.

Example (from my Space Engine collection):

http://imgur.com/a/PKSI3

777Driver · Feb 10, 2015

You cant disable the ship's interior. You can enable/disable the HUD via ALT-SHIFT-G

That may not work after the latest update, when testing in BETA it seems to have changed (Again)

Pandemik · Feb 10, 2015

Aw dang.

I wish Solo mode had the option for replay. or some sort of battle recorder.

Game is too beautiful not to take photos. If the ships gotta be in them, at least in Third Person, you know?

777Driver · Feb 10, 2015

Pandemik said:
Aw dang.

I wish Solo mode had the option for replay. or some sort of battle recorder.

Game is too beautiful not to take photos. If the ships gotta be in them, at least in Third Person, you know?

Just buy a sidewinder and disable the HUD, your view will be perfectly clear through the roof. Clipper also has a massive unobstructed canopy

gnejs · Feb 10, 2015

Does ALT-SHIFT-G work for anyone after the 1.1 update?

tricky · Feb 10, 2015

I just checked and it is ALT-CTRL-G (Left hand CTRL button)

gnejs · Feb 10, 2015

Ah, that explains it, got confused about what the keys were by the posts above. Works, Thanks!

Daisuke Ido · Feb 10, 2015

tricky said:
I just checked and it is ALT-CTRL-G (Left hand CTRL button)

Seems like there's a bug though: every element of the HUD disappears (and that's good) except the circles for planets/stars (and that could be bad...). Don't think it's meant to work that way

tricky · Feb 10, 2015

Daisuke Ido said:
Seems like there's a bug though: every element of the HUD disappears (and that's good) except the circles for planets/stars (and that could be bad...). Don't think it's meant to work that way

You can turn that off with the orbit lines option in the right hand control panel.

Daisuke Ido · Feb 11, 2015

tricky said:
You can turn that off with the orbit lines option in the right hand control panel.

No, I didn't mean the orbit lines but the "targeting circles" for each body in a system.

Pandemik · Feb 11, 2015

Hmmm...would that be something that would get turned off via flight assist?

Boiler · Feb 11, 2015

Hi - I had the same problem. I removed the HUD with CTRL + ALT + G but couldn't get rid of the targeting circle over the planet. I popped out to look at the galaxy map, targeted a new system & when I went back to the cockpit view the targeting circle was gone. So try that before taking a few snaps!

777Driver · Feb 11, 2015

Pandemik said:
Hmmm...would that be something that would get turned off via flight assist?

Nope, flight assist is a flight control law, nothing to do with visual display's. They changed the Hud disable assignments, and what it disables. I should have logged a ticket in Beta, thought it was something obvious that would be fixed.

gnejs · Feb 11, 2015

Boiler said:
Hi - I had the same problem. I removed the HUD with CTRL + ALT + G but couldn't get rid of the targeting circle over the planet. I popped out to look at the galaxy map, targeted a new system & when I went back to the cockpit view the targeting circle was gone. So try that before taking a few snaps!

Thanks for the tip, but that did not work for me. Dropping out of supercruise seems to help though.

For me this is a major annoyance - the only reason to explore at all for me are for the screenshots, since making money certainly isn't viable as explorer.

@777Driver, apparently someone already did https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=109762

Unfortunately I don't imagine this bug will make the top of any priority list...

Pandemik · Feb 12, 2015

Maybe if we asked persistently FD can gives us a toggle canopy option.

Or better yet, Photo Mode.