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Title: Smaller HUD elements in MediaVPs 2014 vs. 3.6.12?
Post by: TwoCables on December 09, 2014, 12:44:07 am
I use and prefer 1680x1050 because it's my monitor's native resolution. I noticed in MediaVPs 2014 that all of the HUD elements are smaller than they are in 3.6.12 and also, of course, without any mod at all. Is this user-customizable in MediaVPs 2014? Can I get back the default size of all HUD elements so that everything is bigger?
Title: Re: Smaller HUD elements in MediaVPs 2014 vs. 3.6.12?
Post by: niffiwan on December 09, 2014, 02:27:52 am
Have a look at my signature for a way to scale the individual HUD elements when using the mediavps_2014.  It's not exactly user-customisable, it's more into simple modding territory.
Title: Re: Smaller HUD elements in MediaVPs 2014 vs. 3.6.12?
Post by: TwoCables on December 09, 2014, 02:56:47 am
Oh wow, this is excellent. I'm very glad I asked. Thank you!

On a positive note, you mentioned that all of the HUD elements would look a bit fuzzy due to scaling, but they look perfectly normal to me at this size. So yeah, I'm 100% happy with this. Thanks again!
Title: Re: Smaller HUD elements in MediaVPs 2014 vs. 3.6.12?
Post by: niffiwan on December 09, 2014, 03:46:41 am
No problem :)
Title: Re: Smaller HUD elements in MediaVPs 2014 vs. 3.6.12?
Post by: TwoCables on December 15, 2014, 09:44:29 am
Can this be done for FSPort MediaVPs v3.4?
Title: Re: Smaller HUD elements in MediaVPs 2014 vs. 3.6.12?
Post by: OverDhill on December 15, 2014, 10:38:23 am
TwoCables I also run at 1680X1050 and was wondering if you could share the files you modified and save me the trouble.  Having some vision problems it would help if they were bigger.

Thanks
Title: Re: Smaller HUD elements in MediaVPs 2014 vs. 3.6.12?
Post by: TwoCables on December 15, 2014, 11:13:40 am
Absolutely!

This is the post I obtained the file from, and it includes instructions as well:

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=87656.msg1750829#msg1750829

In a nutshell, just download this:

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=87656.0;attach=22990

...and put it in C:\Games\FreeSpace 2\MediaVPs_2014\data\tables" (you can create the directories"data" and "tables" if they don't already exist).
Title: Re: Smaller HUD elements in MediaVPs 2014 vs. 3.6.12?
Post by: OverDhill on December 15, 2014, 11:38:43 am
Thanks
Title: Re: Smaller HUD elements in MediaVPs 2014 vs. 3.6.12?
Post by: TwoCables on December 15, 2014, 12:10:02 pm
You're welcome, OverDhill. Post another reply if you have any further questions on this!
Title: Re: Smaller HUD elements in MediaVPs 2014 vs. 3.6.12?
Post by: OverDhill on December 15, 2014, 04:44:34 pm
Well I placed the file in the correct folder structure and took before and after screenshots and see no difference


I am using the cockpit mod so not sure that has some effect.
Title: Re: Smaller HUD elements in MediaVPs 2014 vs. 3.6.12?
Post by: niffiwan on December 15, 2014, 05:03:23 pm
The cockpit mod will be using a completely different HUD layout so it would require a different table. Also, I'd suspect that simply enabled gauge scaling will either not work if the gauges are being rendered to a texture, or they will exceed the size of the cockpit element they're drawn over and would look a little odd.
Title: Re: Smaller HUD elements in MediaVPs 2014 vs. 3.6.12?
Post by: TwoCables on December 15, 2014, 05:11:01 pm
Well I placed the file in the correct folder structure and took before and after screenshots and see no difference


I am using the cockpit mod so not sure that has some effect.

Oh. I didn't know that. Yeah, that's a different HUD altogether.
Title: Re: Smaller HUD elements in MediaVPs 2014 vs. 3.6.12?
Post by: OverDhill on December 15, 2014, 05:37:04 pm
Roger that