Oh lord, nobody show Chris Roberts. He will want to redesign all his ships to include that, and add another 5 years to his development time
Which would change nothing, as infinity plus five is still infinity.
Frontier, you need to hire this group and put them in charge of cockpit UI.
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Which would change nothing, as infinity plus five is still infinity.
I'm going to guess approximately 75-99% of the people who play this in VR and know about it being a thing. FD have obviously decided that there's enough interest in VR to justify the development cost of doing VR, so I don't think it's a stretch to say this would be justified as well, unless I totally misread how much people who play E: D in VR are interested in immersion.
On the Valve Index sub-reddit where I found out about this thing in the first place, there are quite a few people who would literally buy a LeapMotion just so they could do this, if it was a thing. (Myself included.)
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True. I'll let you know in a couple months if I think the Index does pass the test, if you like. I mean, right now, I do think so, but that's based purely on what people who have had it in their hands have said about it, and not my own personal experience with it, so I might change my mind when I get it in June-ish.
Would not be very useful for me, I use my desk for other things when I'm not playing ED, and move my flight sticks and throttles out of the way.
Don't want to reconfigure my cockpit every time I load up the game.
Don't want to reconfigure my cockpit every time I load up the game.
Uh? Do you know how a real fighter cockpit looks like?
When you put your controls back, um, in the way(?), do you always put them in approximately the same location relative to where you are sitting? And by approximately, I mean within a few cm/inches?
I'm willing to bet that, within the bounds of human ability and randomness, you always put your controls in the same place, everytime you play, and I'm willing to bet that adjusting for minor placement variation between play sessions wouldn't be super hard.
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It's sci-fi so you can press all button you want in the future or control the ship in remote without even being on board.. Moreover ED ships do have buttons already.
No idea, but I think a better question is:
- How many people who play E: D in VR right now but don't have a LeapMotion would go out and buy one just for this? (I mean, other than myself.)
- How many people on the VR fence would be convinced to make the jump into VR if they found out this was a thing?
VR or not ED cockpits lack of customization... Not only colors but functions and information to display and hide or repositioning.
As an explorer I would remove all information concerning power play galnet and weapons synthesis and I would add information regarding planets and systems
As an explorer I would remove all information concerning power play galnet and weapons synthesis and I would add information regarding planets and systems
Yeah, I seem to remember we've been begging for colour customization options since, like, beta. Maybe even Alpha.
I got the Leap Motion when it was released. I put it back in its box a couple of days later, and it is still there...
But what Fdev decided when they were developing Elite Dangerous was to build in VR from the start. Adding VR later would have been a nightmare, and they wouldnt have done it, because the % using VR is small overall.
You need to do it from the ground up, even more so if you are going to have VR specific UI in the cockpit etc which would NOT be useable for the rest of the games users. What they are not going to do, rightly, is create a new version of Elite Dangerous with this large amount of development, including as you are suggesting hiring this team (which they wouldnt need to do something similar, if they wanted) and all for the small % of the user base who use VR already.
Where is the return on the large investment?
It works if you are building a new game and this is it's USP.
And the colours etc likely won't be changed for the same reason we won't get customisation, or a massive overhaul of VR. It's presumably a lot of work for no real advantage, compared to all the other priorities.
I suspect that Fdev have a good idea of what % of the pc userbase actually change their UI colours. I mean most of us have done, at some point. But how many switch back to default realising it's the best option, and there for a reason? A majority probably.
FD can't even change the code to allow proper color customization of the GUI. ED's code is in total mess and it must be rewritten to allow any kind of customization.
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More recent comments by DBOBE suggest that, in his view, VR as a whole is niche: https://gamedaily.biz/article/194/david-braben-why-the-industry-needs-the-return-of-the-publisher
.... and any development time spent on VR is only applicable to one of the three supported platforms.
I have VR but I have no intention to buy a Leapmotion. To me HUD interaction in ED is good as it is.
I do, i also know you just totally discredited your self, by bring up real fighter cockpit in a 34th century Space Sim game. Apples and 34th century Oranges.
Good day. And good luck with your Flight simulator games.
