Before the month is fading out, here is a new mod update for vonHUD! It adds some love to your Mech's BattleGrid in Missions, offers more helpful Mod Options, and improves the visual quality of your HUD!
vonHUD 15 Mod Download:
Directly on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/vonseiten/posts/vonhud-15-your-170473945?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
or on Steam and Nexus soon
New Mod Options:
- Battlegrid > Isometric view: displays the open BattleGrid in a 3d-like isometric perspective
- Hide/Show Communication Overlay: you can disable the text box of incoming messages with that. If disabled, the sender's portrait is moved up in the view to be more out of the way.
- Hide/Show Heat Warning Text Overlay: when shutting down in vanilla Mechwarrior 5, a HUUUGE text overlay is displayed. Since vonHUD already has immersive heat effects when heating up, this is redundant. You can disable it now.
Looks, MFD Updates, Visual Quality
Especially the battlegrid has received much visual work in this update. Besides the isometric view mod option, there is a new MFD (multifunction display) Battlegrid Panel, showing the full map at all times (reminder: you can use F5 on your keyboard to switch the MFD panels).
For cool visual quality, I have added visual glows and animated lines to the battlegrid, which all are getting your "vonHUD Panels Main Color" from your set mod option. And there is a projection glow layer coming from below - neat!
But if you like the grid itself more bare-bones, there is also a Mod Option for that with: Disable vonHUD Battlegrid Effects.
Also there are more MFD Panel fine-tunings and overhauls included. If you have particular panels enabled in your HUD via mod option, the duplicate in the MFD is not displayed anymore. Like if you have toggled the lance mate paper dolls in the top left, the MFD panel for lance mate paper dolls are not displayed anymore, since that would be double information and unnecessary. Same with the objectives MFD panel, when you already have the objectives enabled on the left side of your HUD, then the panel is not displayed.
MFD Panels for environment and solar system have also been a little bit polished, and the biome pic is shown now in the environment panel.
Last but not least, the vanilla indicator column for a loot chest is suuuper bright, blinding, and simply a case of "too much" in original MW5. I have made a nice material, more in line with a HUD element and fitting the chest overlay better. Also that's animated.
Full Change Log List:
- MFD: Mission Objectives display: Number color fix (number text was black in MFD panel)
- New Mod Option: Show/Hide Comms Panel Text Box
- New Mod Option: Show/Hide Heat Shutdown vanilla's Big Text Overlay
- Fiiinally found the cause for the thin gray line top left in the HUD:) > removed, fixed
- Lance mates scaling mod option: should now scale from edge towards center (untested, if wonky, please leave on 1.0)
- Loot chest beam texture update (less suuuper bright and blinding, but more in line with a HUD and animated)
- Paper doll undamaged internal color via mod options > Fixed. Works now consistently. Nice.
- New MFD Panel: Battlegrid
- New Mod Option: Isometric BattleGrid
- Battelgrid: visual love, HUD color projection glow, light beam, etc
- MFD System: + MFD Panel appearance depends now on other elements active or deactivated (e.g. if lance mates top left active > lance mate not in MFD)
- MFD Backview Cam: more pixelation, less impact + new optimization: deactivates the window in window renderer when panel is not visible/active (std. mod option stays do not display backview cam, since it eats FPS)
- MFD Panels: various visual detail updates
Thanks to all supporters on for your ongoing contributions here on Patreon and your tremendous support, and for their help the mod development via https://www.patreon.com/vonseiten
And if you do not already support, and have a coffee or beer per month available.. join up! Thanks and Cheers!
Happy Autumn! 🍁🍂🍃
all the best,
- Jonathan