[StargazerWoods]

As we all know, sub-titles can be turned off via the ini file, however, my German is a little rusty (having only barely scraped through the foundation classes at school over a decade ago) and my Russian, Italian, French, Greek, Polish, and everything else is totally no-existant so I need to have some translation in place.

Problem is, when things get a bit hairy in combat there can be about a dozen messages top centre of my screen which can intefere, especially in a fighter plane or or bomber turret situation, with tracking enemy aircraft.

Has it been, is it currently, or could it be possible to change the font size and position to maybe have much smaller text in a less vital area of the screen?

The same goes for the Throttle x%, enemy bridge destroyed, Flaps: Landing, etc messages. I saw a mod recently that allowed for messages to be removed or altered but I think that was text only mod. If that also could be resized and moved, it would go a long way to de-cluttering the window areas whilst still providing the relevant information.

Any feedback on this is appreciated. If somebody thinks it might be possible and wants to give it a shot, I may not be able to sponsor in the traditional sense but they'd have my everlasting gratitude. If somebody has an idea but no time to tinker, write some thoughts here and if I'm too stupid to work it out, perhaps someone else might.

Thanks in advance,

Rob.

[Guest]

There was a nod a while back that changed the size of the HUD text, also one which allows you to replace the HUD messages for others. You'll have to try and search around for those.
Meanwhile, in your conf.ini, in addition to the NoSubtitles line, is another line NoChatter=x.
You can change this to 1, if i remember correctly, and you will only have one line of text messages in the top middle of the screen at a time.
I might be mistaken from memory here -= its either that line, or the NoHudLog line just below it that must be changed. Its been a while :wink:
In fact, I think it is the NoHudLog line. Eg, if you change it to 3, it will display max 3 lines of text at a time.
The NoChatter line is for radio chatter, i think...
Hope I explained okay, feeling a bit woozy roght now... :o

[EasyRider]

There has been a speechpack available for years now that will change the German and Russian voices to english with German and Russian accents.

I seen they have it over at M4T "Barbeque English">
http://mission4today.com/index.php?name ... ls&id=2655

You can shut all the writing off in your config or by using a program like>

IL-2 Shturmovik Stab Version 6.3
http://mission4today.com/index.php?name ... ls&id=2169
IL2 Manager
http://mission4today.com/index.php?name ... ils&id=354

Silent sound files to eliminate the constant "This is Two" from wingman>
http://mission4today.com/index.php?name ... ls&id=3584

By far the best German BOB style background speachpack out there for background ambiance>
http://mission4today.com/index.php?name ... ls&id=2658

In the config under>
[game]
Arcade=0
HighGore=1
mapPadX=0.66875
mapPadY=-0.046875
viewSet=59
Intro=0
NoSubTitles=1
NoChatter=1
NoHudLog=1
NoLensFlare=1
iconTypes=1
eventlog=eventlog.lst
eventlogkeep=0
3dgunners=1
SubTitlesLines=4
ClearCache=1
TypeClouds=0

[game]
In game settings

Arcade=0
when at 1 changes display to show balloon speech from aircraft and arrow bullet strikes etc. Can be 1 or 0

HighGore=0
when at 1 changes display to show gore effects on a limited number of planes Can be 1 or 0

This feature has been dsabled in recent versions of the game

mapPadX=0.6689453
mapPadX and mapPadY are position coordinates for the inflight map, they're nothing to do with padlock.
They are a measure in fractions of full screen width from left of screen (mapPadX) and height from the top of the screen (mapPadY) for the top left corner of the map.

mapPadY=-0.046875

viewSet=32
Snap view -Even number. Pan view Odd number.

Intro=0
when at 1 runs intro movie at game launch

NoSubTitles=0
(Subtitles for pilots' voices; 1 = none, 0 = all) At top of screen

SubTitlesLines=3
Number of lines for sub-titles

NoChatter=0
(Radio chatter; 1 = none, 0 = all) To hear pilots voices

NoHudLog=0
HUD text messages and warnings; 1 = none, 0 = all At side of screen

NoLensFlare=0
(Lens flare effects; 1 = none, 0 = all)

iconTypes=3 allows user to change what is displayed in icons when enabled these are available from key bind in control section.

Icon Settings: You can change your icon types and distances by typing these variables in console in game the command syntax is: mp_dotrange [FRIENDLY|FOE] [DEFAULT] [COLOR] [DOT ] [RANGE ] [TYPE ] [ID ] [NAME ]

FRIENDLY or FOE keywords define which party the following parameters apply to the aircraft of the viewer's army, or the aircraft of the hostile armies.

The following keys define the distance at which the appropriate icon is enabled:

COLOR: The distance at which icons take the color of the inbound plane

[fredgreen]

I don't like all those tags on my screen, my problem was solved by fireball

This was my problem & the solution:
http://allaircraftsimulations.com/forum/...php?t=8845

I hope this is what you mean.

greetings fredgreen I hate tags :evil:

[StargazerWoods]

Thanks for the replies peeps...

I've downloaded a few bits and hopefully I can at least clear off those subtitles now. Thanks for the pointers on that one.

Whilst the speedbar mod thread has provided me with a bit of information that can help me out with something else entirely, I was referring (in my original post) to the blue and white text that appear son the right hand side for throttle changes and so on.

I'm guessing though, given the type of modification for the other bits that this probably is yet to be discovered or simply not possible. I will wait and see on that one. I'll continue to poke around and see if anything surfaces.

Cheers,

Rob.

[Murph]

Look around here for the font mod- that way you can at least make the text a lot smaller.

[StargazerWoods]

I think I found the font mod but there's only one link for it and it went down a long time ago. I will try sending a PM to the creator.

Thanks for the tip.

Rob.

[Quelty]

changing fonts, not a mod as such - Click Here

Another way of not seeing the flaps, throttle messages at all or changing what they say is to edit your hud_log_ru.properties file. Open it in wordpad and you will see all the data organised into two columns - you can change or delete stuff from the RIGHT COLUMN ONLY.

You will find the hud_log_ru file in either ..Files/i18n or ...mods/STD/i18n folder.

Hope this helps

Quelty