I just figured out why the scanner annoys me so much

[amadeus1171]

It should be level!

Right now the scanner is tilted, but the lines that drop down to show the target go straight down instead of orthogonal to the scanner. This causes a bit of mental discordance when viewing the scanner.

If the scanner were level the the cmdr's point of view then the lines going straight down would make sense.

But because the scanner is tilted about 15 to 20 degrees with the lines not being orthogonal, it causes confusion in perception. If the scanner is to be tilted, then the lines leading to the target should be orthogonal and not pointing straight down.

What do you guys think?

Or, and a translucent sphere enclosing the scanner wouldn't hurt either.

 

[Deadlock-3000]

Which of the many, many scanners we now have are you referring to?

 

[Red Anders]

Which of the many, many scanners we now have are you referring to?

The scanner scanner. It's the one you use to scan your scanners to see what scanners you have.

 

[amadeus1171]

Smart asps!!! lol


It's the scanner you see right in-front of you when piloting your ship.

 

[Deadlock-3000]

Smart asps!!! lol

It's the scanner you see right in-front of you when piloting your ship.

Oh. You mean the sensors.

Never bothered me.

 

[LeoBartlet]

Never had an issue with the fronty shipy scanner but that fss on the other hand....

 

[Villeruff]

Doesn't bother me. It's perfectly legible.

 

[amadeus1171]

You've been trained to think that it's perfectly acceptable.

Wake up cmdr's!

 

[GraXXoR]

No issue here.

 

[Dash]

Maybe because I played on the original, but the radar scope seems intuitive to me.

The only thing I struggle with on it is distance.

 

[xxThe_Dice_manxx]

I'd like the sensor to be of a higher quality sharper image with a better representation for unresolvable d targets.

 

[Dash]

I have to admit, moving to 4k made the scanner infinitely better.

 

[krylite]

I'm fine with it. If I want a different angle from the scanner , I'll just fly further out vertically from the general orbital plane.

 

[Lightspeed]

This is not one of those .... "once you've seen it, you can't unsee it" things is it ? In which case I shall look away before I understand what we should be looking at.

 

[Stealthie]

I get what the OP's saying but I suspect if it was "correct" it'd just create more confusion when attempting to estimate the positions of objects above/below the scanner's plane.
It'd seem particularly odd (and obtuse) as you pitch up/down and a couple of objects would go from being "wide apart" when they were above you to, at worst, merging together when they were below you.

*EDIT*

On a related note, I always find it strange that you buy a sensor module to make your scanner work.
Would it not have been more straightforward to name the sensor module as a "scanner" module instead?

 

[Morbad]

This causes a bit of mental discordance when viewing the scanner.

Not for me, nor most other people, I'd imagine.

If the scanner were level the the cmdr's point of view then the lines going straight down would make sense.

The scanner has to be viewed from an angle to deliver relevant positional data on a 2D screen. If it were level with the CMDR's PoV, it would be almost useless.

 

[Stealthie]

The scanner has to be viewed from an angle to deliver relevant positional data on a 2D screen. If it were level with the CMDR's PoV, it would be almost useless.

I think the point is more that if the scanner "base" is angled, the vertical lines protruding from it should be slightly diagonal rather than perfectly vertical - so they'd look like something you were looking down on from above.

 

[Morbad]

I think the point is more that if the scanner "base" is angled, the vertical lines protruding from it should be slightly diagonal rather than perfectly vertical - so they'd look like something you were looking down on from above.

I don't think this would improve it's functionality.

 

[Xious]

What do you guys think?

 

[Arioch]

The scanner that we’ve had since 1984? I’ve never had a problem with it, and it looks even better in VR