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edited March 2010 in The Academy
Space is beautiful. The ships are beautiful. Sometimes, I just want to turn off the entire HUD so I can just appreciate the awesome Star Trek space experience of STO.

Can I do it? If so? What's the key binding? I can't find it in game....
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Alt + F12 Should do it
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Alt-f12 is right. That will remove all UI save Shield rings.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    also if you hit prt scr it will take a screen shot without the hud and save it for you. you have to dig into the program files to find it though iirc. so in the middle of a fight you want a screenshot? just hit the button and you get all the beauty without the clutter.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Mijna wrote: »
    also if you hit prt scr it will take a screen shot without the hud and save it for you. you have to dig into the program files to find it though iirc. so in the middle of a fight you want a screenshot? just hit the button and you get all the beauty without the clutter.

    I'm using Windows Vista, and I can't locate my screenshots to save my gorram life. I've pored through Program Files, Program Files (x86), Documents, Pictures...every damn folder I can think of that MIGHT hold screenshots. Ironically, I can't even locate the effing folder that contains STO. Please, for the love of FSM, can someone tell me where the fark I can find my [censored] [censored] [censored] [censored] [censored]ing [censored] screenshots?!?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Screenshots can be found in C:\Users\Public\Games\Cryptic Studios\Star Trek Online\Live\screenshots
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010


    Space is beautiful. The ships are beautiful. Sometimes, I just want to turn off the entire HUD so I can just appreciate the awesome Star Trek space experience of STO.

    Can I do it? If so? What's the key binding? I can't find it in game....

    Thank you for asking this question, I have been curioous about this for a while now.

    Azimov wrote: »
    Alt + F12 Should do it
    Ashcraft wrote: »
    Alt-f12 is right. That will remove all UI save Shield rings.

    Thank you for the responces, it is a very useful feature, being able to toggle the UI / HUD on and off, thanks again. :)

  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    There's also a slash command, /show gameUI 0 or something of that nature. If you start by typing /show, it will present the commands that match. I found this out when I was using /showFPS 1.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Ashcraft wrote: »
    Alt-f12 is right. That will remove all UI save Shield rings.

    now if only we could get ride of the shield rings we could have some really great space battle screen shots.

    I for one never use or well look at them the shield rings instead I use the ones in side the Hud at the bottom.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    toddwr88 wrote: »
    now if only we could get ride of the shield rings we could have some really great space battle screen shots.

    I for one never use or well look at them the shield rings instead I use the ones in side the Hud at the bottom.

    If you press Prt Screen, it takes a screen shot with no UI or Shield rings.

    That was the hardest comment ever to decipher, in some kind of medieval English :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Kanharn wrote: »
    If you press Prt Screen, it takes a screen shot with no UI or Shield rings.

    That was the hardest comment ever to decipher, in some kind of medieval English :D

    True I am not sure what happen there, sorry about that.

    What I meant to say is that I don’t use the ring that appears around my ship to monitor the various shields strength. Instead I use the Hud's top down icon version that is roughly at the bottom middle of the screen, well on mine it is,. Also when you take a screen shot in battle the shield rings of both you and all other ships in combat show up.

    Also I like to use a program called Fraps to make little clips from games, but in this case those shield rings really ruin the effect.

    So it would be nice if you could turn it off.
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