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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The FRED Workshop => Topic started by: Kestrellius on November 18, 2016, 05:54:15 pm
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When you select a ship, all the geometry gets lit up. I think this is a new feature, because it didn't happen in my previous install. In addition to being kind of annoying and unnecessary in general, it makes it almost impossible to see the names of turrets and subsystems. At first glance, I don't see a way to turn it off. Is that an option? Or changing the color of either the outline or names?
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The white highlighting is a vanilla feature, as outlined in FRED's help documents (which are provided if you installed retail Freespace). It's possible that you didn't notice them before because the retail models didn't have near as many triangles as does the mediavps models do.
There is no way to turn off highlighting, but you can toggle rendering of the models on/off from the View drop down menu. If you have a subsystem selected, its bounding box(es) will show up even if you have models turned off.
I do admit that it's unfortunate that the subsystem labels are difficult to see, but hopefully there will be a better highlighting method soonish.
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I think this is a new feature, because it didn't happen in my previous install.
As z64555 noted, it's actually a very old feature; it was, however, broken for a while. The result was that people couldn't tell what they had selected at all, unless they turned models off.
On IRC, z64555 had some interesting ideas for improving things:
<z64555> so feature idea
<z64555> You know about that hardpoints gauge, yeah?
<z64555> makes a nice outline of a ship
<z64555> Lets do the same for the highlights in FRED
<z64555> and maybe some font shadows
I wonder what other FREDers think about the situation.
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Hm, oh well. Thanks.