Release Elite Dangerous HUD Mod (EDHM)
- Thread starter GeorjCostanza
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I really hate to say this but the mod changes everything in the front HUD except the blue analysis mode lines!
It's for a technical reason .. it's part of a shader that shifts its internal hash addresses for every different screen resolution, so it's quite difficult to get it to work across devices without glitching
However, I'm currently developing a new modding approach that will allow changes to these blue lines, and I'll tag you here when it's done. Sorry about that!
No problem, and thanks!
Hi CMDRs,
I've recently got back into mining again, and thought it was time to change the night vision colour. I borrowed the technique from Old Duck's Immersion mod to create a bunch of preset colours you can select.
Please see inside the shader file (attachment is now in the post below) for instructions. You simply have to uncomment the colour you want, and comment out the others by putting // at the beginning of the line.
Here's the colour options
Light Blue
Yellow
Red
Green
Light Green
Light Purple
Pink
You can also change the colours to whatever you like, increase the intensity, increase brightness. Let me know if you need any help getting the look you want
I've recently got back into mining again, and thought it was time to change the night vision colour. I borrowed the technique from Old Duck's Immersion mod to create a bunch of preset colours you can select.
Please see inside the shader file (attachment is now in the post below) for instructions. You simply have to uncomment the colour you want, and comment out the others by putting // at the beginning of the line.
Here's the colour options
Light Blue
Yellow
Red
Green
Light Green
Light Purple
Pink
You can also change the colours to whatever you like, increase the intensity, increase brightness. Let me know if you need any help getting the look you want
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Nice work, very nice indeed. Curious, are you laser mining or core mining? Given the issues we've had in the past with NV modding messing up the Pulse Wave Scanner results, I'm eager to know if these work or if I'll still have to leave it on a toggle when I'm searching for those bright brights?
It was hard for me to test this in 30 second intervals as well, lol. I had to give up out of frustration.
Guess it's Overwatch for me today.
Nice work, very nice indeed. Curious, are you laser mining or core mining? Given the issues we've had in the past with NV modding messing up the Pulse Wave Scanner results, I'm eager to know if these work or if I'll still have to leave it on a toggle when I'm searching for those bright brights?
Hi CMDR, I'm laser mining platinum in Lalande 34968 using CMDR Churly's excellent map. Can fill a 512T Cutter in about 45mins, and I've heard of someone doing it in 25mins! For me it's about 150mil/hour, but I just chill out when I mine
I haven't core mined for over a month so I don't know how the night vision colours might affect the core colours. Let me know if there's anything strange and I'll look into it
Btw, if you core mine, make sure you set your CHUD to normal mode, not bird-of-prey. For some reason the core mining minigame gfx are connected to the combat HUD, and the bird-of-prey CHUD makes the detonation minigame look very dim. I added this note in the EDHM Install guide but you may not have seen it
Good hunting!
Mapped laser mining is great for the credit grind, stacked combat missions is where I'm farming Cr right now, around 100m/hr. Core mining is just for some fun role-playing.
Finally got back on today, dropped into a ring, found a rock with visible fissures and popped the PWS. Unfortunately this shader mod negates the PWS the same way the OD one does. Even commenting out what I believe is all the 'modding' code in the shader still breaks the PWS. Curious =\
That said, thank you for the colour presets, I'm enjoying the pink right now, lol.
Also, good tip about the CHUD impacting the ssdm mini-game. I noticed it was a little dimmer, nothing problematic, figured that was just my overall dim hud colour scheme (the way some hud colours make the 'fuel allotted for next jump' indicator hard to see). Good to know I can boost it if need be by swapping to the standard chud. Bird of pray is just too sexy tho. =]p
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Thanks so much for checking this out! So when you activate the PWS it doesn't show cores while the modded night vision is active?
Have you tried it in Developer mode? Like, find a core without the modded night vision active, sit in front of the rock so you know it's a core, then add the night vision shader to ShaderFixes, reload the mod with F11, then try the PWS again
I'm far away from my carrier / mining system in a cutter with a low jump range otherwise I'd check it out myself. When I get back tomorrow I'll have a look though
Correct, using dev mode. I first confirmed it was a core asteroid (that's what I meant by seeing the fissures on the rock), then with the shader removed from the folder I popped PWS and it lit up as normal. Then I added the shader back to the folder reloaded the mod and popped the PWS again, this time nothing lit up (you see the pulse go by but nothing goes orange). Then I commented out the lines at the bottom of the shader thinking that should return the NV to default and reloaded the mod again. Popping the PWS this time creates as odd result, the pulse goes out but this time it is bright orange and instead of the core rock remaining orange it fades back with the rest of the rocks as the the pulse carries through. I'll try to get a video for you and post it to the discord.
Hi CMDRs and GeorjCostanza ! All looks very pretty! But no changes are displayed to me after installing and starting the game
Steam version: installed into <steam_folder>\steamapps\common\Elite Dangerous Horizons\Products\elite-dangerous-64.
Any idea what I missed?
Steam version: installed into <steam_folder>\steamapps\common\Elite Dangerous Horizons\Products\elite-dangerous-64.
Any idea what I missed?
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I just tested and yeah, modding the night vision shader really screws with the PWA. No wonder FDev don't want to change anything, each element of the graphics engine is intertwined and finely balanced to work with each other.
Don't worry about a video .. I'll have a look and see if it's possible to restore the PWA function
Thanks for reporting the glitch!
@NateSomers
Ok I think it's fixed. 3Dmigoto wasn't creating the HLSL code correctly so had to mod the shader in assembly instead.
Here's the original PWA
And the modded version
I've attached two versions of the Night Vision shader - a standard version that uses the same 'shading' as OG Elite (screenshot right above), and a Tron-like version that is the same as the screenshots a few posts above (darker background / brighter main lines). I've also added brightness controls for each colour in case you want to turn it up or down.
Instructions to change the colours are contained within the file. And please let me know if you spot any other glitches
Standard Night Vision
Tron Night Vision
PS. Don't change the filename! (some folks have been adding 'replace' at the end, but don't do that )
Ok I think it's fixed. 3Dmigoto wasn't creating the HLSL code correctly so had to mod the shader in assembly instead.
Here's the original PWA
And the modded version
I've attached two versions of the Night Vision shader - a standard version that uses the same 'shading' as OG Elite (screenshot right above), and a Tron-like version that is the same as the screenshots a few posts above (darker background / brighter main lines). I've also added brightness controls for each colour in case you want to turn it up or down.
Instructions to change the colours are contained within the file. And please let me know if you spot any other glitches
Standard Night Vision
Tron Night Vision
PS. Don't change the filename! (some folks have been adding 'replace' at the end, but don't do that
)
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Hi CMDRs and GeorjCostanza ! All looks very pretty! But no changes are displayed to me after installing and starting the game
Steam version: installed into <steam_folder>\steamapps\common\Elite Dangerous Horizons\Products\elite-dangerous-64.
Any idea what I missed?
Hi CMDR,
Hmmm that looks like the correct folder, though I've never seen an "Elite Dangerous Horizons" folder before, but perhaps that's something new.
When you extract the zip, the elite-dangerous-64 folder should look something like this:
Troubleshooting with a CMDR yesterday we discovered some zip extractors create a new folder with the Archive name (EDHM-v1.41) and then put the mod contents inside. And then it won't load at all.
Maybe yours is doing that? In that case just cut everything inside that archive folder and paste into the elite-dangerous-64 folder
If that doesn't solve it can you please PM me and we can try to sort it out
Open the 'Products' folder, then open the 'elite-dangerous-64' folder, then unzip EDHM in that folder so that it looks like the pic in my previous post
Hopefully that works
The side panels are a can of worms that I don't want to open right now, as they will take weeks to mod due to all the little icons and sections. If the mod survives the Odyssey update I'll start work on all other orange elements so everything fits together.