Setting Chat Transparency to 0 in the config has no effect

[zook2]

What it says in the title.

[Ranran(retired)]

It looks like it's working fine as far as I can see. The background color specified by the theme is applied. White if the theme has no settings.

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# Chat window transparency (0=off, 25, 50 75 are possible)
chat_transparency = 0

Note that "0" is transparency off, as described in simconf.tab.

[zook2]

Thanks, but could it be that this is a server setting and thus it doesn't have any effect if I change it locally?

[Matthew]

Thanks, but could it be that this is a server setting and thus it doesn't have any effect if I change it locally?

It works. Is it possible that the theme you have edited is not the theme that you have selected in the game? Personally I saved the edited theme under a new name to make sure that I got the theme that I wanted, because several themes have confusingly similar names:



P.S. I also think it's possible that the Nightly Updater will overwrite themes if you use existing ones.

[zook2]

Themes? We have themes? I'll have a look...

[zook2]

I found the setting now, thanks!

[jamespetts]

I should note that themes are now built nightly on the Bridgewater-Brunel server, so you should all be able to get the latest version of the themes from there in future.

I will now mark this topic as closed.

[Matthew]

It seems that nobody actually wants transparent chat. Should we maybe set the default to 'not transparent'?

[jamespetts]

It seems that nobody actually wants transparent chat. Should we maybe set the default to 'not transparent'?

That would be sensible. It is quite hard to see the text when transparent. I think that the latest themes provide for non-transparent chat.