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Apologies if this has already been suggested somewhere; a search through didn't come up with any results.

I would like to suggest the ability to completely hide all gui elements. At the moment you can hide station signs/city names/etc but for instance there is no option to hide the profit/transfer labels which pop up when a vehicle unloads. There is also no option to completely hide the top and bottom gui bars, which limits the available space when for example you want to do a screen recording without showing the ui.

This could be an option which can be toggled using one of the F keys, such as f12 for example.

Whilst I am not familiar with the openttd codebase or projects of this scale, I imagine something like this shouldn't be too difficult to implement. If there already is code to hide vehicle load percentage labels, then surely hiding the transfer/profit labels also should be similar to implement.

But... without GUI you can hardly play the game You will be lucky to remember the shortcut to quit and you will be left helpless, if you hit such key to hide everything by accident. And that WILL happen, probably much more often than used intentionally.

I see the point for further options to hide e.g. the income animation. And it could be feasible to hide the GUI for all but one button which then allows to show the menu again.

I was just thinking that for the specific case of wanting to record a real-time timelapse, in fullscreen to capture the full resolution, the ability to hide all the ui would be useful. Maybe the ability to do this would be behind a toggle in the options to avoid any less experienced people from accidentally hiding everything?

At the very least, I would really appreciate the ability to hide the income/profit label; then i could record a smaller area of the screen without any gui elements visible at all.

Thanks

So you want a kind of "cinematic mode"

we have some preliminary code for this, but it is only used in the title screen, where certain things are hidden

Yeah exactly. If this could be a toggle-able feature in the game it would be amazing.

Any chance this could still be implemented? The transparency options are nice, but I would love to be able to sit back and enjoy watching everything in motion for a while without the gui.
If accidental key presses are a concern, perhaps inside the Game Options menu or somewhere similar there could be a safety switch to enable the use of whatever key would hide the gui?

Thank you very much!