What is UI Translucency??

[danob 1]

Hey all.  My first question (I think).  Usually I can find my answers in the forums but this one seems to have stumped the search engine.  

What is UI Translucency?  Do I need it turned on or off?

What are the effects of both choices?

Thanks in advance for the (what I am sure to be) quick and useful info.

[Frankie_Grove 33]

yeah, i want to know what it is too

[prince_of_sims 0]

Translucency - the quality of allowing light to pass through diffusively. syn. Semitransparency. 

UI - User Interface. All the nice little windows and graphs and queries.

UI translucency allows the User Interface in SimCity to be partially transparent. It's totally a graphical deal and is not absolutely necessary. I know for sure that disabling it won't make the default queries and graphs look bad, but i'm not so sure about custom made queries and such. So, if your computer doesn't lag much with it on, I suggest leaving it on. Again, it's purely an eye-candy issue.

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[storms991 0]

yea well that helps.....

[vester_DK 477]

Well my best bet would that the answer is to be found in the Modding - Open Discussion forum or one of the other Custom Content forums.