Any mod have a fix for not-quite-opaque periscope view?

[vanjast]

This is fairly easy to do.

Grab the scope.dds files and you have 4 layers, RGB and Alpha.
Make sure your alpha channel is as white (rgb=255,255,255) as can be, with a black hole in the middle plus the faded lens effect along the black hole perimeter

Also turn down your monitors gamma correction.

[XanderF]

Originally Posted by vanjast

This is fairly easy to do.

Grab the scope.dds files and you have 4 layers, RGB and Alpha.
Make sure your alpha channel is as white (rgb=255,255,255) as can be, with a black hole in the middle plus the faded lens effect along the black hole perimeter

Also turn down your monitors gamma correction.

What's the best converter for .dds files? I have Photoshop Elements (2.0) and GIMP - the MS SDK to allow editting them supposedly only works with Photoshop 7.0+, so I haven't tried that. And I have an ATI system, so I dunno if the nVidia converter would work.

gimp works fine or you can use paint,net which is another free tool

[XanderF]

Hmm...been spending some time with this problem and GIMP.

I can make the changes, and they do show up in game...but you can still make out movement from the 'shaded out' area around the periscope. Rather annoying.

No matter what I do with the alpha channel or texture itself, the background still shows through.

[AVGWarhawk]

I think but do not quote me on this. If the fog is enabled in the game this happens. Again, I think this the reason.

[XanderF]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

I think but do not quote me on this. If the fog is enabled in the game this happens. Again, I think this the reason.

It's entirely possible - it's a very similar effect to the 'see through crewmen' you can get on the bridge with fog enabled, only a lot more pronounced.

However, it's not that bad on every scope. As noted, the 'night' scope in the TMO mod actually isn't that awful.