Rotating ship loading screen improvements

Commander Halley

Commander Halley
Hi,

Please improve the loading screen where the ship rotates on the x-axis:

- rotate instead as per the original classic elite, so we can see all angles of the ship.
- randomly, as a treat, show the original 80's vector version of each ship, and for new ships, mimic the old effect.

+10 nostalgia.
 

Agony_Aunt

Agony_Aunt
Don't stop there! Let's make it so we can fly it while its loading! :D

Ok, i agree, would like the ship rotating in various directions as well ;)
 

Nurmi

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Adding FAQ answers as "tips" to the loading screen might be a good idea as well.

"Triangles in your scanner are ships with hardpoints deployed. Watch out!"

"Hollow triangles and squares in your scanner are other players: NPCs are filled out."

"Looking for a black market? Check under contacts while docked: black markets don't show up on the map!"

Etc. I'm sure it would be trivial to farm several hundred oneliners along the lines of "I wish I'd known this sooner" from the forums.
 

Commander Halley

Commander Halley
Nurmi said:
Adding FAQ answers as "tips" to the loading screen might be a good idea as well.

"Triangles in your scanner are ships with hardpoints deployed. Watch out!"

"Hollow triangles and squares in your scanner are other players: NPCs are filled out."

"Looking for a black market? Check under contacts while docked: black markets don't show up on the map!"

Etc. I'm sure it would be trivial to farm several hundred oneliners along the lines of "I wish I'd known this sooner" from the forums.
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Great idea! Although, thinking about it, it does remove the feel of a vertical climb/lack of manual that the Elite games are notorious for. I'm undecided if that's a good thing :)
 
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Hank

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+1
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Plus I'd like to see it in color (like in the Outfitting screen). Since you can't walk around your ship yet that spinning orange ship could be changed to show your current ship (which it does) in color (and with your paint jobs if you have it painted).
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In the shipyard you can grab and rotate the ship image but only in the X/Y axis. It would be nice to rotate it in any axis.
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good luck
 

Tryst

Tryst
While we're at it can we see the ship rendered with the paint job we've applied to it or basic if no paint job has been applied? We can see the ship we are currently flying on that screen and we can buy paint jobs from the shop but the only time we can see just a part of the paint job we've paid for is if we add any upgrades because the outfitting screen is the only place we get an external view of parts of the ship. TBH, it always seemed like a waste of money to buy a paint job that I can't actually see myself.

Having our paint job rendered for the loading screen gives us more reason to buy the paint jobs really.

Edit: Actually we could have a pause toggle option after it's loaded to press a key to continue so we can appreciate it longer if we want.
 
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