Proposal Discussion Better cargo/trading screen art ?

steeve

S
Hi all,

Does anyone know if there's plans to art up the trading menus? maybe with some nice cargo icons, or just better visuals in general?

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Space looks great but so far when you start trading its basically a text adventure. be nice to get something like the pic above or even better would be 3d hologram type icons that are slowly rotating of the products I'm buying.

I'm sure there's a plan for it, has there been any threads on this so far? or is it in some road map, I did do a search but nothing up.

game is looking amazing by the way, you guys are kicking ass!
 

Patrick_68000

Patrick_68000
Frontier had said there would be icons of goods in the game (I had created a thread a long time ago). I hope it will be as you describe in your post. Color, the rotational movement. The game is also the visual pleasure as much as action.
And welcome to the great family of the Elite
 

wstephenson

wstephenson
I used to love the Amiga version's commodity pictures; the graphic for Gems made me drool in anticipation of finding a few grams to buy cheaply or a mission which dropped some.

However, I don't think photorealistic 3D renderings like you post fit with the future-Ceefax (Teletext if you're not from the UK) look of the UI, and imagine how much you'd have to scroll in the list with usefully big versions of those.

To be consistent they will either be a flat 2D icon like we have for stations, planets etc in the Navigation pane (but I wonder if the large range of commodities for sale will be usefully expressible with simple icons), or the edge-detected scanline rendering used for ships on the dashboard.
 
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