Third party HUD enhancements

Bloodsign

Bloodsign
I just discovered Rainmeter, and am using the Monstercat plugin for it to give me a spectrum visualizer along one edge of my screen. Works perfectly with ED in borderless mode.

What tools/extras do you use, CMDRs, to enhance your HUD? (Notice that we're talking both game related overlays (if there are any) or other extra functionality/pure cosmetic enhancements. Obviously mine is purely cosmetic.)

Bonus for screenshots, but Fraps doesn't want to capture the overlay on my end ATM, so I may have to tinker.

P.S. PotPlayer is free, has good always on top options, and can have the main window transparency set.
 
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z993126

z993126
I just have some of the basic built-in Rainmeter widgets and a custom-built one for the date because I like having the Julian Date handy for things. A post I made here in the forums ages ago was a request for a Rainmeter-like approach to configuring the HUD inside ED.
 

Aussiedroid

Aussiedroid
Never really considered setting something up in Rainmeter for ED (although I use on my main screen). I'm a bit of a fan of this visualisation called Frost if you want to try something different (I invert it to bounce from the top of screen): https://www.visualskins.com/skin/frost or here https://github.com/alatsombath/Frost

For ED though, I normally have EDMC running with some overlay supported plugins. Have installed the LandingPad plugin that shows the pad location visually (although I kinda know them these days its still kinda coolz), the EDRecon plugin which gives some mat info among a wide range of other realtime info & HITS to give some CMDR activity reports (although I don't really play in open I never got around to deleting it lol).

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Bloodsign

Bloodsign
Aussiedroid said:
Never really considered setting something up in Rainmeter for ED (although I use on my main screen). I'm a bit of a fan of this visualisation called Frost if you want to try something different (I invert it to bounce from the top of screen): https://www.visualskins.com/skin/frost or here https://github.com/alatsombath/Frost

For ED though, I normally have EDMC running with some overlay supported plugins. Have installed the LandingPad plugin that shows the pad location visually (although I kinda know them these days its still kinda coolz), the EDRecon plugin which gives some mat info among a wide range of other realtime info & HITS to give some CMDR activity reports (although I don't really play in open I never got around to deleting it lol).

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Nice, some of these sound really useful. I'm going to check out the landing pad plugin, might give me a reason to completely abandon the docking computers once and for all. Thanks!
 
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