Is there any way to alleviate the residual-image problem when viewing overlays at close range? I'm working on a computer panel (image attached) with overlays: viewed straight on, it looks great, but if you walk up next to it and look at it from an angle, it looks pretty bad, because you can still see the original textures behind the overlay, which creates this weird double-image effect. I'm using rendermode Additive, amount 255 on the overlay entity.

Is there any way to avoid this? Or are overlays just best used in places where the player can't get close enough to notice that? I could theoretically just chop up the display and make a sort of inlay-overlay, but that would be worse for polys, and this is a hive room with a fair amount of detail already.

Any ideas from the vets?

I never considered this a problem tbh, but it might help if you used a background texture which has the glowing panels blacked out.

Make them one unit thick, those look like 4 units thick or something.

Naw, it looks fine...

Sort of gives a "hologram" and "glow" sort of effect to the screen.

There's no real way to fix that other than to make sure that it's a 1 unit thick brush, so that you can only see it if you get right up onto the wall, and most people will be too busy running around shooting things to care all that much.

Why stop at 1 unit? make it as close as you can get it.

I use smaller than 1 unit grid all the time, and have no problems derive from it. I agree, it's overkill for overlays, but I'm pointing out that "as close as you want it" is as good an answer as '1 unit'

If you put a border around it you wont be able to see the edge you know
there for fixing your problim.
well some of it at least

i heard you can put the overlay on the inside edge of the brush..

haven't tried it though.