Better Dials for Power Armor - Fallout 4

This mod improves the heads up display dials you see when entering power armor. Power armor dials are now more clear, cleaner, and less distracting. I hand crafted them for improved aesthetics and performance. Install this if the blocky user interface when inside power armor annoys you.

Major Changes

Cleaner lines. The original interface comes with blobs of color splattered here and there--an artifact of the compression process. My new dials are hand-built from scratch, so there are no artifacts.

4 color options. It comes in 4 colors--default amber, pip boy green, Vault-Tech blue, and Institute white.

Better condition meter. The existing power armor condition meter is ugly as sin. It's all one color, and has a blocky appearance. It doesn't look anything like a dashboard lamp, which it is supposed to be.

I built a new power armor condition lamp from the ground up. I removed the grayish blocks and added an illuminating interior gradient, so that it looks more like a dashboard lamp. I also added faint horizontal LED lines. This makes it look more like a lamp, and also hides some of the pixels (which are unavoidable since the original had such poor resolution.)

My condition lamp comes in traditional warning colors. Solid green = power armor has good durability. Solid orange = power armor has low durability and is about to break. Red outline = power armor is broken. White outline = power armor slot is not equipped.

How is This Mod Different?

There are a few other power armor interface mods out there. This one is different in the following ways:

1) Many of the other mods use the existing dials as a base, and simply paint new colors on top. This keeps all original artifacts and image glitches. I have crafted all dials from scratch. My dials have much higher visual quality. 2) Some other mods go overboard with glows and shadows, to the point that the numbers become illegible in-game. This is because Fallout 4 adds its own glow and light-pass-through effect to the dials during gameplay. With this mod, I kept the back glow to a minimum, to emphasize clarity. This keeps the dials highly legible. 3) I kept colors to a minimum, modeled after vehicle dials. The base UI color is the soft amber that comes with the game. To break up monotony and add clarity, I used white to denote ticks in multiples of 10 for AP and HP, and 25 for fusion core charge. I then used red only to denote "low" states, when a core is about to expire or your character is about to die.

I then used a simple red, green, amber system for power armor durability meter and rads meter. Anyone who drives should understand this--it's self-explanatory. This is, in my opinion, an elegant solution to add variance to the UI while also improving clarity.