Anyway to stop the green part highlight on mouseover?

[Panzerbeard]

Hi, so, I was just playing around with recording some KSP footage, and was just wondering if there's any way to remove the green glow when you mouseover a part while flying? I know I could play in windowed mode and move the cursor off the KSP window, but I need the mouse for, you know, playing the game

I had a quick look through the settings.cfg file, and a forum search, but couldn't find anything related to it; if it's not possible, then no worries, but it'd be nice not to have it, since it gets annoying even when I'm playing the game normally.

Cheers,

Ash

[AlamoVampire]

I think it can be done for 30 bricks of gold pressed latinum. But joking aside I think your stuck with it honestly

[Panzerbeard]

I think it can be done for 30 bricks of gold pressed latinum. But joking aside I think your stuck with it honestly

I'll offer 20 and not one slip more. 3rd rule, and all that

But yeah, if it can't be done, no worries, I'll manage. Thanks anyway.

[NorCalGuy914]

Was just now searching for an answer to the same question. Glad I'm not the only one wishing for a way to disable the green part highlight. Hello KSP, you listening?

[Red Iron Crown]

Can you not just move the cursor off the ship?

[Sirrobert]

You don't need the curser to move the camera around.

You can use the mouse keys for that

[Mareczex333]

It's old post, but... If you are trying to make cinematic and there are parts on whole screen (no blind spots), then it's a problem, because your mouse have to be somewhere on screen.

For example recording kerbals inside some kind of base. I got same problem, so I would be grateful for solve this problem

[allmhuran]

If I am recording and I want to do some footage with the cursor and some without (like for my most recent video) I have a second monitor that I move the mouse to (and I have backup camera control bound to a joystick hat).

The danger, of course, being that if you accidentally click a mouse button while on that second monitor, the game minimizes

[Mareczex333]

Hmm.. So you solved it with second screen... I got just one screen ;d Any other way to do it? editing cfg, mods or changing options.. anything please!

[StrandedonEarth]

Well, if your PC has a tv out port, there's your second screen.

[Mareczex333]

Well, if your PC has a tv out port, there's your second screen.

It may be weird, but I don't have TV at all! ;d

It's useless for me, so I'm not going to buy any soon

[allmhuran]

Hah, I recently bought a TV just because I moved and my wall looked big and bare, but I hardly use it.

Back on topic though, no, I know of no other way to avoid the green highlighting, unless you happen to have a 16:10 monitor (like I do), in which case you can also record at 16:9 resolution for the youtubes (ie, clipping the top and bottom of the screen) and park your mouse cursor in that region, but if parts extend into the 16:9 region you'll still get the highlight showing.

[Jebadiah Kerban]

Hmmmm i also want to get rid of it im thinking changing the PNG. or FILE. color to transparent must be a file or PNG or something

[Mareczex333]

Hah, I recently bought a TV just because I moved and my wall looked big and bare, but I hardly use it.

Back on topic though, no, I know of no other way to avoid the green highlighting, unless you happen to have a 16:10 monitor (like I do), in which case you can also record at 16:9 resolution for the youtubes (ie, clipping the top and bottom of the screen) and park your mouse cursor in that region, but if parts extend into the 16:9 region you'll still get the highlight showing.

That's a way! Record in windowed mode with lower resolution ;d

Thanks!

[allmhuran]

Sure, that'll work if you're happy with less than 1080 for youtube!

[Kryxal]

If your monitor is enough larger than 1080, it's all good...

[Ippo]

Hmmmm i also want to get rid of it im thinking changing the PNG. or FILE. color to transparent must be a file or PNG or something

Actually no, it's set in game using a function in Unity, so the only way to disable it (that I can think of) is writing a plugin to override it.

[Mareczex333]

Sure, that'll work if you're happy with less than 1080 for youtube!

There would be just few scenes with lowerer resolution. Rest of video would be fullscreen ;d

[Ippo]

Well, here you go.

Just drop this in the GameData as usual.

3 warnings though:

1. it only works in flight right now, do you need it in the editor too? Because that's actually a little complicated to do;
   
2. it will suppress the glow from the mouse just fine: however, if another mod sets the part's glow it will flash for one frame;
   
3. I'm not really going to support this, you know. However it's public domain, so just do whatever you want with it.
   

[allmhuran]

Dang, that was fast!

[Red Iron Crown]

Dang, that was fast!

Seriously, a mod in 30 minutes, that's impressive.

[Mareczex333]

Nice! Well.. I need it in EVA mode, but in flight mode is good enogh. Thanks!

Btw it is the fasted made mod which I ever seen! ;d

Edited July 12, 2014 by Mareczex333

[Ippo]

Dang, that was fast!

It could have been faster, but I was watching whackjob's videos the whole time and got sidetracked

[Ippo]

Seriously, a mod in 30 minutes, that's impressive.

This is literally the whole of the code:

[B]namespace[/B] [COLOR=#555555]GlowSuppressor[/COLOR]
{
[COLOR=teal]    [KSPAddon(KSPAddon.Startup.Flight, false)][/COLOR]
    [B]public[/B] [B]class[/B] [COLOR=#445588][B]GlowSuppressor[/B][/COLOR] : MonoBehaviour
    {
        [B]void[/B] [COLOR=#990000][B]Update[/B][/COLOR]()
        {
            [B]if[/B] (FlightGlobals.ActiveVessel != [B]null[/B])
                SuppressGlow(FlightGlobals.ActiveVessel.rootPart);
        }


        [B]private[/B] [B]static[/B] [B]void[/B] [COLOR=#990000][B]SuppressGlow[/B][/COLOR](Part part)
        {
            part.SetHighlightType(Part.HighlightType.Disabled);
            part.SetHighlight([B]false[/B]);


            [COLOR=#999988][I]// Reset the glow for all the child parts[/I][/COLOR]
            [B]foreach[/B] (Part child [B]in[/B] part.children)
                GlowSuppressor.SuppressGlow(child);
        }


    }
}

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Nice! Well.. I need it in EVA mode, but in flight mode is good enogh. Thanks!

Btw it is the fasted made mod which I ever seen! ;d

Uh, 10 more minutes.

[allmhuran]

LOL yeah I just had a look.

Yikes, another recurse through the part tree every frame (I assume update is a per-frame call) to brutishly force it to false. It's a shame you can't just unhook the mouseover handler (thus saving CPU cycles by disabling per-frame-part-mouseover checks) instead of having to let it do that work and then performing another walk through the tree to force it off again.