General Question fuel and rcs status in 1st person mode

[Bloodworth]

this may have been asked and answered a hundred times already and if so, you have my sincerest apologies.
My question is "how do I get rid of the fuel status and rcs mode display in the upper left corner of the screen (while in 1st person or cockpit mode) for screenshots?"

 

[Lucy]

By this, I'm assuming you're talking about the "glass cockpit" mode?

IIRC, the 2D panel mode has no such indicators. What I normally do to take a 1st person shot is scroll the panel out of the way, hit "I" to remove the orange text at the top, and (sometimes) disable the HUD (If I can work out how).

As for actually turning those portions of the glass cockpit off, I'm not sure if it actually IS possible, though I could be wrong...

 

[Bloodworth]

you disable the hud with ctl+h. what I was talking about was this:

 

[Bloodworth]

Nobody? Nuts.

 

[GreenMonkey]

I'm having the same problem, only I want to enable fuel quantity and thrust force. It's disabled somehow and I can't get it back!

I've used Orbiter for a year now and can do most things, so if there is some simple key I should be pressing it would be good to know. :shrug:

It's useful when I'm trying to hover or gague how much fuel is left on a STS launch.

 

[Andy44]

The "I" button turns on the info on the corners of the screen.

 

[TSPenguin]

The "I" button only toggles the top right information, as mentioned before.

 

[Woo482]

Tried pressing "Ctrl + H" ?, that should enable or disable the fuel / thrust display

 

[Andy44]

Oh, I see, my mistake. AFAIK there is no way to do it while inside the cockpit.

 

[TSPenguin]

Tried pressing "Ctrl + H" ?, that should enable or disable the fuel / thrust display

It does not. As mentioned before.

 

[dbeachy1]

GM, as a test, you could try it in a clean Orbiter installation. AFAIK, there is no way to toggle the fuel/rcs status in the top-left corner in glass cockpit mode: it should always be shown. If it also doesn't appear for you in a clean Orbiter installation, then it sounds like some graphics driver glitch or something. Do you have anti-aliasing enabled in your video driver settings for Orbiter? If so, disable it as a test. Also, make sure you have a "T&L" video mode selected in the Orbiter launchpad and you're using 32-bit color.

One final question: what video card do you have? Is it on-board video, or is it a discrete card?