Inflight Messages

[Sky Captain]

Is there anyway to turn them off? I know how to get the hud off, but having 'Drop Tanks Jettisoned' come up kind of takes away from the immersion factor. (I'm one of those 'hardcore' simmers, and therefore don't need those little pop-up messages :P) I've explored the flight *.ini's, but I can only get rid of the paused messages, and a couple others. (Me trying to find my way through a data file for a game would be like MacGuyver trying to make a simple machine with lots of high-tech equipment and no duct tape)

[+Crusader]

its hidden in the sound options menu, turn subtitles off

[Sky Captain]

That only turns off subtitles for when people talk. Messages like 'Game Paused' are what I'm talking about.

[Lexx_Luthor]

You can make the messages actually quite useful and immersive without cluttering the cockpit. Here is my MESSAGESYSTEM file, extracted from Flight folder's Flightdata cat file...

 

Extract your file, and delete all the text within, and replace with this text, then experiment to taste....you still have the original safe in the encrypted Flightdata cat file.

 

 

 

TextFontName=Arial

TextSize=8

 

[MessageSystem]

MaxMessages=4

MessageTime=2.0

MessageFadeTime=0.5

 

[MessageWindow]

BackgroundImage=TextBackground.tga

TopLeftPosition=0.14,0.91

BottomRightPosition=0.90,0.99

VerticalBorder=0.0015

HorizontalBorder=0.008

 

 

To totally eliminate it all, you can try zero for text size, max messages or message time of Zero, or possibly set the message window to negative numbers (outside the monitor screen). Or, there may be a simple switch in the game to turn it off. Not sure, as I find it useful provided the text size is ramped down a bit, and the message speeds are ramped up.

Edited July 21, 2006 by Lexx_Luthor

[Sky Captain]

Ah, thanks Lexx.