orbit lines on/off

Hiro Renn

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Hi!

It is possible to turn off orbital lines. I do not need them, but th problem is, if I turn them off I can not see the two orbital line around planets I can land (blue and yellow), and the one around the star. Well, those three types are very important for me. It would be great to have two seperate options to turn off all other orbital lines as I think those are simply useless in most of the times, except those three I mentioned above.
 

varonica

varonica
Hiro Renn said:
Hi!

It is possible to turn off orbital lines. I do not need them, but th problem is, if I turn them off I can not see the two orbital line around planets I can land (blue and yellow), and the one around the star. Well, those three types are very important for me. It would be great to have two seperate options to turn off all other orbital lines as I think those are simply useless in most of the times, except those three I mentioned above.
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I think there comes a point where breaking down selectable options into smaller and smaller choices becomes impractical. I don't need the line around planets but would like to keep the one around stars. The orbit lines are useful (at least until we get a proper orrery) to help explorers understand the layout of systems but I think it's going to be none or all or there will be endless demands for every variation possible. Actually flying with out planet and star lines is very easy, I don't need them and only have the orbit lines on for system layout, otherwise I ignore them and fly by eye. The ones around the planet are not really needed for landing, once you have practiced with them a while landing on planets becomes second nature and you can just turn them off.
 

Athracht

Athracht
Hiro Renn said:
Hi!

It is possible to turn off orbital lines. I do not need them, but th problem is, if I turn them off I can not see the two orbital line around planets I can land (blue and yellow), and the one around the star. Well, those three types are very important for me. It would be great to have two seperate options to turn off all other orbital lines as I think those are simply useless in most of the times, except those three I mentioned above.
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It's just a keybind. You can toggle it on and off. I forget the default binding, but I have it bound in Voice Attack so I just say "Orbit lines" when I need them.

As for preference, there is this thread: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...-have-orbit-lines-off-or-on?referrerid=166869

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Hiro Renn

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varonica said:
I think there comes a point where breaking down selectable options into smaller and smaller choices becomes impractical. I don't need the line around planets but would like to keep the one around stars. The orbit lines are useful (at least until we get a proper orrery) to help explorers understand the layout of systems but I think it's going to be none or all or there will be endless demands for every variation possible. Actually flying with out planet and star lines is very easy, I don't need them and only have the orbit lines on for system layout, otherwise I ignore them and fly by eye. The ones around the planet are not really needed for landing, once you have practiced with them a while landing on planets becomes second nature and you can just turn them off.
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yes you are right about the planet lines, maybe i just need practice and will not need them but still, i will always need the line around a star to not fall out of supercruise. but in the same time i want a much "cleaner" view in the cockpit, sometimes there are a ton of yellow lines across the screen totally unneeded.

i even thought about change the yellow line around stars and planets to a smaller and nicer animation. you know something like a shield animation when it gots hit. you can see the spherical form of the shield in a small territory. that could work as well instead of lines. when you are closing on to a star, you see that shield-like animation and you can adjust your direction
 
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