HUD Crosshairs for navigation please!

Starscream · Jan 2, 2015

Hi there

Dunno about other people, but it'd be nice if there was a crosshairs so it's easier to point your ship in the direction you want to travel.

I find it very annoying when I'm trying to fly out of a space station, and miscalculate my direction slightly, and up bumping into the rim of the portal...

...and it's annoying to have to keep making minor course corrections heading for a station during supercruise.

Cheers!

SquidgyB · Jan 2, 2015

Yeah, it's not too bad but is definitely worse for some ships - I found the extra vertical gauge on the left hand side of the HUD really useful in this regard - centre line is exactly the centre line of movement. The middle of your scanner being the horizontal centre - of course you don't get that line on a hauler, so that won't help much in every circumstance.

SquidgyB · Jan 2, 2015

I did not know that existed - particularly when using head tracking of some sort, this option is going to be invaluable, thanks!

Vasea Azure · Jan 2, 2015

A simple velocity vector would be a welcome detail...

SquidgyB · Jan 2, 2015

Yeah, velocity vector display would be awesome, particularly for flying without flight assist (although after a while it seems to get more "natural")...

Starscream · Jan 3, 2015

Oh that's superb..... thanks!!

Malic · Jan 3, 2015

mordin86 said:
A simple velocity vector would be a welcome detail...

I use the space dust, but i am also using an Oculus Rift, so sometimes I am flying "forward" out the side window

[HJ]-RedRaven · Jan 3, 2015

GHDW said:
Options > Controls > Show Mouse Widget set to On.

It's only a dot but it helps a lot.

Found this a few days ago too - its just a dot but it where you're nose is pointed, supercruise or normal thrust. GOLD.
Thanks GDHW.

Duke · Feb 1, 2017

Time to push this up

I'm using the mouse widget for a long time now

Options > Controls > Show Mouse Widget set to On

, BUT this ugly fat dot is not really a crosshair.

Please add a real crosshair or at least a option to add self-created crosshairs (even if it's only a hidden setting in a ini-file) to ED.

Another issue with the mouse widget: I own a headtracker and when I activate the free view the mouse widget becomes invisible.
A crosshair should stay everytime in the direct forward direction. I would help massively to handle the ship precise when using the free view
or when having a asymetric cockpit view (e.g. Fer-De-Lance)

So: *push* to get this back in mind

fly save, commanders ... and not too drunk

Duke · Feb 28, 2017

Yessss, it (the mouse widget) is permanently on in 2.3 - even if you've headlook enabled.

Thanks, FD-Team