johnnylump wrote: ↑Mon Apr 26, 2021 2:53 pm
I'm afraid I don't understand what you're asking for. Of course the objects aren't to scale because things are so far apart in the Solar System multiple objects wouldn't be visible on almost any scale in which you could see multiple objects outside a single planetary system; they would resolve to less than a single pixel. Looking at the KSP pictures, are you asking we replace icons with filled in circles?
The visualization uses icons when zoomed out so you can find an interact with objects. It switches to actual-size models when you get close enough that the model would be larger than the icon.
With 330 objects in the max game (and modders able to add more), showing orbital tracks for every object would be a nonfunctional UI. So we only show them for the major bodies and the body you have selected.
You could say that, yeah. I know my first reaction to the map was just confusion. I-and most others, I imagine-are used to seeing like a circle, or a dot, a shape, etc. Doesn’t have to have a line for obit if it’s not important, that’s fine. It’s the icons I have issue with, and probably others do too. It’s so...jarring. Out of place. Especially with Earth and I think it’s Mars? Perhaps you could do like spore or something, which had a bright shine where a planet was, but as the mouse would pass over it the planet would pop up?
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Yes, it is very vauge and horrible quality but it is the only pic I could find where you can see the difference between unselected and selected planets.
Now, I can’t speak for others but I do know it’s been spoken about in the past in the discord.
I guess the point is the icons are too big, really.
Edit: I just re-read your message, do you mean to say that the icons are only this big when you select them? Like click on a planet and the icon gets bigger?
Edit2: Here’s another example of a possible map, this is closer to what I was imagining the map of terra invicta to be since it was big on realism, at least that’s what I got from the kickstarter description. So um, you can imagine my surprise. Pic is from universe sandbox, dunno if 1 or 2.
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