Not even sure if this is possible being as the UI colours seems to be a bit of an issue with this game, but playing in VR the one thing that doesn't work (for me), is I can't tell the orientation of the orbit lines which helped me find this thread:
forums.frontier.co.uk
So I got to thinking, if the game used the star colour shift (red means moving away and blue means moving toward) then they become a lot easier to read, something like:
Source: https://imgur.com/nRXVr1B
or even arrows / dotted lines, but I like the idea of the colour shift as it immediately becomes obvious that the obsidian starport is behind the planet.
It would also work if the game paused when in the orrery but I realise MMO's can't really do pause and movement in the orrery is fairly clunky whilst in VR...
[QoL] Visual orientation help for orbit lines
Good morning, There was that planet approaching moment where you lose orientation because one can't tell wich part of the orbit line is closer to the ship in super cruise: In order to resolve this and help the brain with a visual clue, I added a dashed line on the orbit half which is...
So I got to thinking, if the game used the star colour shift (red means moving away and blue means moving toward) then they become a lot easier to read, something like:
Source: https://imgur.com/nRXVr1B
or even arrows / dotted lines, but I like the idea of the colour shift as it immediately becomes obvious that the obsidian starport is behind the planet.
It would also work if the game paused when in the orrery but I realise MMO's can't really do pause and movement in the orrery is fairly clunky whilst in VR...
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