Horizons Missing NPC images in UI

[CMDR Yukon]

Hello Cmdrs,
Anyone else experiencing missing character images in the interfaces? Like the mission board, station services, ship menus, etc. I just started seeing black squares where the character images are supposed to go.

Verified game files, updated graphics drivers, no effect. Haven't seen any forum posts mentioning this, nothing in the "known issues" list, so I'm wondering if this is something going on with my system/installation or if anyone else has seen it.

Thanks.

 

[Cpt Shadow Wolfe]

I've noticed it as well, haven't figured out what it is, seems to happen most likely on planetary bases cause I have been able to see them on Space Stations sometimes...

 

[Shadowdancer]

If you're using custom HUD colours, try without or check the "No2O" thread for compatible colour transforms.

If you're on a Mac and recently updated to High Sierra, good luck

 

[Krieger]

I've seen it occasionally. It's quite rare. Last time was a few days ago in a space station. When I returned to the station half an hour later all was fine again. Maybe a small glitch or a timeout that kicked in when the station was busy?

 

[CMDR Yukon]

Got it figured out.

Did some experimenting and it looks like my custom blue HUD is the culprit. (You were right, Shadowdancer ) Something must have changed in the last game update because I've been using the same setup for a while without issue, but switching back to default orange restored the imagery. Switching back to blue again brought back the black boxes. Location doesn't seem to affect it, saw the problem across planetary base and space station. Not sure what the connection is between the pictures and the custom HUD color, but they are no longer playing nice together. [mad]

Oh well, gonna have to dig around and see if I can find a working alternative blue. Thanks for the suggestions.

 

[Shadowdancer]

Not sure what the connection is between the pictures and the custom HUD color, but they are no longer playing nice together.

They never played very nice. HUD colour change is a tolerated and slightly supported hack that requires a workaround so those portraits are not affected by the colour transform; you need to make sure that your transform leaves enough of each component colour in the result, or the images will appear broken or disappear altogether. Look for the "No to Orange" thread in Dangerous Discussion, it lists a number of "compatible" colour schemes.

 

[CMDR Yukon]

I know the HUD colors are non-standard tweaks, but my blue HUD was quite serviceable before 2.4 hit. I had everything I wanted, including the character images. But the devs must have altered something in the images or UI that upset the color balance so, I can either have my cool-blue or images, but not both, at least for the time being.

Oh, and if anyone stumbles in here and would like the link, here is the No2o thread. Lot of schemes to try in there:

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...le-HUD-Colour-Color-Configs-(please-add-yours!)