Landing-pad lighting direction tweak

[z993126]

The landing pads, when active, display the guidance hologram lines in a descending animation, whether there is an incoming ship or a ship prepping for launch.

It would be useful to have the animation go upwards when it's for a launch. Just a minor quality-of-life clarity thing.

 

[Hydrino]

Makes sense.
Repped another post of yours, can't +1 again yet.

 

[GhostBuster]

The landing pads, when active, display the guidance hologram lines in a descending animation, whether there is an incoming ship or a ship prepping for launch.

It would be useful to have the animation go upwards when it's for a launch. Just a minor quality-of-life clarity thing.

Serious question: Why aside from graphical niceties, would this be *useful* for players?

More useful would be for the landing numbers to be backward when approaching from the wrong side.

And for the few times when you're far away, can't make out the numbers or are at an oblique angle and they are in-line with the hologram bounding box, then shouldn't some form for color gradation from red (rear) to green (front) be present on the bounding box?

All that has far more usefulness that to show a pad has a launching ship on (which you can't land on anyway) so it's kind pointless no?

 

[z993126]

Serious question: Why aside from graphical niceties, would this be *useful* for players?

Well, in busy stations it'd give you a better idea of how much traffic is inbound and about to possibly block the mailslot vs. outbound...

More useful would be for the landing numbers to be backward when approaching from the wrong side.

And for the few times when you're far away, can't make out the numbers or are at an oblique angle and they are in-line with the hologram bounding box, then shouldn't some form for color gradation from red (rear) to green (front) be present on the bounding box?

Both of those would be useful. Or maybe a floating arrow above the docking pad?

 

[X-Terminator]

I like this idea. Honestly.