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A must have interface improvement!

February 6, 2008 6:31:45 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire ForumsSins of a Solar Empire Forums
For easier navigation between adjacent systems please add the following GUI improvement:

Each phase lane has an arrow pointing towards the destination system that you can click so your view instantly zooms there. This arrow can be placed just outside the gravity well of the planet, but not too close to interfere with other stuff.

This makes navigating your camera from one place to another without moving your mouse too far much easier. It also leaves you less reliant on the less than responsive middle mouse button fast-zoom function.
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Reply #1 February 6, 2008 6:42:42 PM
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Totally unnecessary. Spend the 5 bucks on a mouse with a wheel, then, just put the cursor where you want to zoom to and flick the wheel forward. It's flawlessly smooth from 1 ship out to the whole galaxy, and back in.
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Reply #2 February 6, 2008 6:46:50 PM
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Or a mini-map... that can be scaled to the height you like...

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Reply #3 February 6, 2008 6:58:45 PM
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....the point of the empire tree and seamless zoom is to make minimaps obsolete.
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Reply #4 February 6, 2008 7:04:56 PM
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@efexeye:
It is bloody tiresome to zoom in and out all the time with the mouse wheel. GHASP! Yes, I actually do have a mouse wheel.

Ok, lets take one scenario here...

You want to move a ship from system A to system B.

As it is now you have to scroll out and click at the destination system, or figure out which of the planets in the empire-tree you actually want to go to next.

Or you could with two fast mouse clicks go to the destination system and give new orders without the zoomfest.

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Reply #5 February 6, 2008 7:18:49 PM
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Or you could zoom out in the same amount of time with less distance to cover by moving the mouse. The chances of new game navigation features being added are very, very, very slim. It ain't an unworkable idea, though.

You really ought to consider playing with your mouse wheel sensitivity, or a different mouse.
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Reply #6 February 7, 2008 5:43:48 AM
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Had this game been open source I would have set about programming this feature myself...
I wonder if the modding tools will allow me to make GUI tweaks.
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Reply #7 February 7, 2008 8:26:32 AM
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....the point of the empire tree and seamless zoom is to make minimaps obsolete.



Ahem! cough* cough* What about making the "shift" key the "zoom-fast-button" instead of the current "zoom-slow-button"? lol

Or just give the secondary zoom speed key (default "shift") a bar for how fast it should be, either faster or slower than regular zoom, totally up to the player, but ill bet that 90% will choose it as a fast zoom button ^.^!
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Reply #8 February 7, 2008 12:03:18 PM
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Some of you might want to try the following default keybindings.

V zooms in, B zooms out. (IIRC)
Z, X and C have been set to useful zoom distances without any time wasted. X and C are useful anyway, Z is vanity view.
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Reply #9 February 7, 2008 12:51:27 PM
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and caps lock to zoom between system view and gravity-well view~ :]
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Reply #10 February 7, 2008 1:07:52 PM
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Ahem! cough* cough* What about making the "shift" key the "zoom-fast-button" instead of the current "zoom-slow-button"? lol


You actually can adjust the shift-zoom multiplier in the settings files, IIRC. So you could make it a fast zoom if that's your fancy.
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Reply #11 February 7, 2008 1:15:49 PM
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Ahem! cough* cough* What about making the "shift" key the "zoom-fast-button" instead of the current "zoom-slow-button"? lol


Something I frequently go into the settings folder to do for myself
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Reply #12 February 7, 2008 1:15:55 PM
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I think it's a great idea, would love to have it implemented.
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Reply #13 February 7, 2008 1:24:28 PM
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....the point of the empire tree and seamless zoom is to make minimaps obsolete.

Any tips for new players to use the empire tree? Once I get any size of empire or military, it's a loss on me- as it gets so cluttered...?
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Reply #14 February 7, 2008 1:27:50 PM
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....the point of the empire tree and seamless zoom is to make minimaps obsolete.

Any tips for new players to use the empire tree? Once I get any size of empire or military, it's a loss on me- as it gets so cluttered...?


What I like to do is disable auto pinning of everything except capital ships. Then, whenever I need something pinned (planet, group of ships, enemy planet, etc) I just select it and hit ~ to pin it to the empire tree.

This way it has just the planets/ships I want on it, and no cluttered junk
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Reply #15 February 7, 2008 2:12:05 PM
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Caps Lock does that, if my memory doesn't play evil tricks on my mind. Forgot my Tin Foil Hat at the university.

Sorry, forgot to refresh the page. The answer has been given.
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