Better cockpit widgets placement

- Make the cockpit widget placement better, not so close to the player, to make the view more accessible - Give access to widgets in third-person view

Under consideration Medium Dev Cost Suggested by: Moderator (26 Sep, '20) • Upvoted: 15 Nov, '21

Comments: 19

07 Oct, '20
Dinkledash
Allow widgets to be dragged around by tabbing, then drag and drop.
07 Oct, '20
TJ Fury
As is now the left side is crowded and terribly placed, need to set each as a separate window to move where each person wants it.
07 Oct, '20
Talonclaw
There are suggestions i `want` more but this one is more about need.
07 Oct, '20
Jag Hiroshi
It would be great if ship builders could craft the layout themselves, having greater control of placement.
07 Oct, '20
Bartlett
Oh yes please!
07 Oct, '20
Bartlett
Oh, yes please!
07 Oct, '20
Aursan
This shouldn't be marked as under consideration, this should be a priority and pinned for the dev team. The current placement is horrible =(
07 Oct, '20
willolake
Remove specialty HUD behavior in cockpits, simply treat them as normal control seats. There is a low value in what cockpit HUD behavior is, yet ongoing dev cost to maintain.
07 Oct, '20
Sethcran
Make cockpit widgets work identically to the other types of command chairs.

Then, if you want more, add functionality to move or customize those widgets.
07 Oct, '20
Marcus H
you may have noticed that placing a command chair, it's center of rotation is off, so it never aligns correctly to center line of ship
07 Oct, '20
Mornington
this, yes, totally - can't stand flying fighters in 1st person but then can't see fuel gauge,, aaaargh
07 Oct, '20
ThePilgrim
I find the cockpit display very difficult to use. No horizons and the HUD only available in one view. The more info available, the more choice the player has in what info to display and where to place it, the better. This is probably on top of my wish list.
08 Oct, '20
jon
several good lua out there that can be use. My main concern is distance to the ground: there is no indicator, this will be needed when asteroid mining starts
09 Oct, '20
Shealladh
These should have been modular from the get go. IMHO, these need an overhaul, as it is, the widgets are like MS word made websites of old, just crap and not flexible or functionally worth it. Just try and modify them, no enough options, hence why no one uses them!
I want to use them, but there is just not enough edit choices
09 Oct, '20
Dmitry Nesterov
It would be good if they could be dragged like "windows" in the operating system, docked, expanded. And also change the design, style.
13 Oct, '20
eldrake
just use same setup for cockpit as it is for seat ;-)
22 Oct, '20
Folly
Just give us Extra-Extra Small screens and signs that we can place around the cockpit, and auto-scripts for fuel gauges and other widgets for people who don't want to code their own.
24 Oct, '20
The Pilgrim
A better cockpit with more instruments such as horizon indicators (e.g. flight simulator), and more customization of where the instruments are is on the top of my wish list. HUD display in other views would also be hi on that wish list.
01 Dec, '20
BaileyVandenbroek
Include LUA IN THAT