I really appreciate the user interface team's work on implementing full transparency for cross hotbars and W cross hotbars with the release of 5.1, however, there has been an unintentional problem created with the background highlighting of the cross hotbars.

I play with all cross hotbars invisible, so the implementation of full transparency is something that I was looking forward to.

Old cross hotbar transparency
  • Settings were done in the HuD menu and were individual to each HuD
  • All cross hotbars could be hidden when not active
  • Cross hotbars (i.e. the lower ones) could be set to 99% transparency
  • W cross hotbars (i.e. the upper ones) had no transparency setting at all and were always at 0% transparency (the old problem)
  • Background highlighting of all cross hotbars was linked to the transparency settings

New cross hotbar transparency
  • Settings are in Character Configuration menu and are universal to all HuDs (not ideal, but manageable)
  • All cross hotbars can be hidden when not active (no change)
  • Cross hotbars (i.e. the lower ones) can be set to 100% transparency (+1% from old settings, problem solved)
  • W cross hotbars (i.e. the upper ones) can be set to 100% transparency (+100% from old settings, problem solved)
  • Background highlighting of all cross hotbars is not linked to the transparency settings and is always completely visible (the new, worse, problem)

Here is a clip of the new cross hotbar transparency set to invisible. You can see the completely visible background highlighting of the cross hotbars at the top of the screen.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/501250803

It would be great if the background highlighting could also be totally invisible. Thank you!