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ui/hud improvements

Mar 11, 2019 myri.antilles link
I play on an Amazon Fire, which runs the game quite well, surprisingly. I do have a slight issue with the ui/hud. It fells as though it were designed only for small phone screens and not for large tablets. I think this would be easily fixed by moving the touch control rings up and in slightly, allowing room on the screen edges for the bottom row buttons, especially 'target' and 'stop.' I think some improvements could be made in the flight controls themselves. It would be nice to have separate throttle and drift controls, with several extra throttle control buttons, like 'CT' for continuous thrust, especially useful in true physics flight mode, 'RT' for reverse thrusters, allowing for more controllable reverse flight, and 'BT' for braking thrusters, allowing the ship to stand still for several moments before resuming directional thrust.
Mar 12, 2019 incarnate link
You may want to talk to people about the DroidButtons control plugin, for the moment, which enables a lot of possibilities.

In the long run, we definitely need more built-in control config options. It's on the TODO list, but I'm not claiming it's right around the corner.
Mar 12, 2019 Captain Spry link
Luxen put together this great tutorial for setting DroidButtons up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9JLwOZcyJw
Mar 12, 2019 Luxen link
Spry, if your gonna link that video, you might wanna link this one as well, which describes how to install plugins in general. 😉