Problem with Pipboy + Stealth

[Haldurson]

I need help with a graphical issue. I've had no issues with the Pipboy up until now. But I discovered that when your stealth reaches certain levels, through special armors and perks, that not only does it make you look transparent, but it also makes your pipboy transparent. And I've been unable to find a graphics setting that actually makes it usable under those conditions. The map is especially bad because of how 'busy' it is, between the features on it, and the background.

Note that if I stop sneaking, everything 'normalizes'. But I'd rather not have to go into and out of stealth every damned time that I need to use my pipboy, whether it is to check the map, or refresh my memory of a quest, or simply to find the right gear for the situatino.

Has anyone else had this issue, and if so, have you found a solution (other than unstealthing, that is)?

[Einherjar]

are you in power armor?

[Mook]

Do you have any mods installed?

Try verify game files, but this might break mods and tweaks you made.

[Jhonny G]

This is not a bug or glitch per se.. When you use a stealth boy or other means to turn invisible, the pipboy will turn invisible as well. It has always been like this.

If you don't like it you'll proberly have to wait for a mod to "fix" it.

[Crazybmanp]

You probaby have a legendary stealth armor.

[Mook]

Originally posted by Dogmatius:

This is not a bug or glitch per se.. When you use a stealth boy or other means to turn invisible, the pipboy will turn invisible as well. It has always been like this.

If you don't like it you'll proberly have to wait for a mod to "fix" it.

I've used a stealth boy before and was able to use the pip boy?

[↓↓ They REALLY suck!↓↓]

I've had the same problem. Had the Chest Piece of the Comelian on. When you stealth the screen goes clear and the text is covered up or blurry.

[Jhonny G]

Originally posted by ØпiҠanji:

I've used a stealth boy before and was able to use the pip boy?

Maybe my memory is a little foggy then.. I just seem to remember the same issue back in Fallout 3 when playing a stealth character.

[Mook]

Originally posted by Joshypoo:

I've had the same problem. Had the Chest Piece of the Comelian on. When you stealth the screen goes clear and the text is covered up or blurry.

Hmm, simple dev error, technically it does make sense though, your arm should be clear right?

[Mook]

Originally posted by Dogmatius:

Originally posted by ØпiҠanji:

I've used a stealth boy before and was able to use the pip boy?

Maybe my memory is a little foggy then.. I just seem to remember the same issue back in Fallout 3 when playing a stealth character.

I think it's only with stealth armor

[↓↓ They REALLY suck!↓↓]

Originally posted by ØпiҠanji:

Originally posted by Joshypoo:

I've had the same problem. Had the Chest Piece of the Comelian on. When you stealth the screen goes clear and the text is covered up or blurry.

Hmm, simple dev error, technically it does make sense though, your arm should be clear right?

your arm is clear yes, but the Pipboy screen doesn't have that stealth affect, it's as if there is no model there at all. And the text on it is unreadable.

[Jhonny G]

Originally posted by ØпiҠanji:

Originally posted by Dogmatius:

Maybe my memory is a little foggy then.. I just seem to remember the same issue back in Fallout 3 when playing a stealth character.

I think it's only with stealth armor

Sounds plausible.. I pretty much always wore stealth suit ^^

[Mook]

Originally posted by Joshypoo:

Originally posted by ØпiҠanji:

Hmm, simple dev error, technically it does make sense though, your arm should be clear right?

your arm is clear yes, but the Pipboy screen doesn't have that stealth affect, it's as if there is no model there at all. And the text on it is unreadable.

When the creation kit comes out, I will make a mod that makes the screens appear but lowers your stealth majorly, will that make you happy? I think raiders would be freaked out at a floating screen

[Chromadrakon]

its meant to make you only invisble while crouched and not moving. Try moving while crouched pipboy will be completly invis. "It just works"

[Haldurson]

Sorry -- after I posted that above, I was unable to get into the steam comments at all, and then I had to leave for my brother's house for Thanksgiving.... But I'll respond now in bulk.

First of all, I really didn't think it was a bug, I just thought it was annoying, and my visual issues were partly because I simply have real-life vision issues.

Yes, I have mods installed, but it's not the reason for the problems. There is a mod that changes the textures of the map, but I still have the same problem with or without it.

The armor that I'm wearing is new, or newly modded -- it includes a Cunning Shadowed Leather Left arm, and a Chameleon Studded Leather Right Arm -- none of the other armor adds any kind of stealth

I know in the normal settings that you can only set the main color for the pipboy, which isn't helpful because the contrast remains bad and the brightness is blindingly high, regardless of the color scheme I select. But I'm wondering if there is some setting elsewhere where you can change the secondary color for it, so I can create a greater contrast and/or tone down the brightness. That mgiht actually be sufficient.

[Haldurson]

BTW, I discovered a new issue. After fiddling with the color scheme again, this happened:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=563210194

After unloading that map texture file, and resetting all of my video setting to the default, I get this instead: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=563212982