General Question Nice HUD effects absent on home box

[statickid]

I installed orbiter on a computer and the HUD is really awesome with transparency effects and a glowing effect where the lines overlap.

There are no such effects when I use orbiter at home on my own pc. Any idea what the difference is here? I didn't even know what I was missing out on!

 

[Ripley]

Sounds strange!
Same Orbiter versions?? Same OS? And what graphics cards/resolutions?

 

[statickid]

shoot. i don't know what the other one is, I know it's newer for sure, I'm pretty sure it uses Win 7 and I have Vista at home. I have a Nvidia geforce 7950 gt that supports direct x 9.0c, might it be my direct x?

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my computer is quite old by now, probably from 2006

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same orbiter versions, 2010 p1

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so i'm curious, what is normal? do most people see the cool hud effects?

 

[Izack]

so i'm curious, what is normal? do most people see the cool hud effects?

No. But then again, maybe yes. A screenshot of the phenomenon would speak a thousand words right now. It just sounds like your graphics setup is doing something funky. Some cards/drivers force antialiasing and other effects, so it's not unheard of for a game to look very different between machines using the same in-game settings.

 

[statickid]

interesting. i'll take a screen shot today. its actually really cool in my opinion

 

[dgatsoulis]

I installed orbiter on a computer and the HUD is really awesome with transparency effects and a glowing effect where the lines overlap.

There are no such effects when I use orbiter at home on my own pc. Any idea what the difference is here? I didn't even know what I was missing out on!

Is there any chance that you might have the "transparent glass cockpit MFD" parameter checked in one installation and not checked in the other?

 

[statickid]

Is there any chance that you might have the "transparent glass cockpit MFD" parameter checked in one installation and not checked in the other?

Hey this is it! that was the difference. I never knew the glass cockpit changed the appearance of the HUD like that. very cool. actually looks like projected light this way instead of just green lines. learn something new about orbiter every day, I guess. I don't typically use glass cockpit (ever) so this was a surprise.

Thanks! :tiphat:

 

[worir1]

I dont like the glass cockpit
its hard to see when taking off and landing in daylight

 

[statickid]

yeah i dont care much for it in regards to the MFDs, but i like the way the hud looks like it's glowing or being projected.

 

[Ripley]

yeah i dont care much for it in regards to the MFDs, but i like the way the hud looks like it's glowing or being projected.

Huh? On my pc nothing changes, apart from transparent MFDs, but I always use D3D9.

 

[Izack]

This is how it looks in the inline client:

 

[statickid]

Yours is doing it:thumbup: its not just simple transparency, it all glow-ee. Check out this comparison chart to clarify what i was specifically talking about originally; I used your screen shot. It looks closer to photoshop's "linear dodge" layer effect, but still even more glow-ee than that. You can still see it in the 2-D cockpit

 

[orb]

Well, in Orbiter it isn't "Linear Dodge", it's purely additive mode.

 

[statickid]

I didn't figure it was the same, I just meant it kinda sorta looks comparable. I'm still stuck on hello world for C++ :lol: