Friday 2010-11-19 Dev. update and Discussion

[C_G]

Originally Posted by Sutts

For sure this would be more interesting than a list BUT you'd need a knowledge of the arrangement and controls of the aircraft in the picture in order to use it. The list works well in my opinion. I like the clean look of the interface too. Much more professional looking than a picture of a book open on an old desk like some have suggested. Just my opinion of course

Items would be labeled... in any case, I think development has gone too far for energy to be put into the sort of feature I suggest.

If I were to decide between the present type of list (modern/clean) vs. "faux historic" I would go for modern/clean.

[orkan]

Menus must be functional, and a game/simulator immersive. Leave menus be. Respect typography.

[flyingblind]

Another variation on the theme of assigning buttons to events which might be possible to set up would be to link the clickable cockpit to the controls menu in such a way that when the mouse selected the cockpit switch an option was given to enter and save key strokes/joystick buttons to the controls menu. A subsequent selection of that switch would also show the saved keys/buttons. This display could be turned off. This way it would be much quicker and easier to assign keys to events and it provides a ready reminder of the keys assigned any time in game. Some keys would be common to all planes and so would only need entering once for all whilst others would be common to a type of plane such as a bomber and a few may be unique to only one particular plane. This would give complete freedom to select and click switches in the cockpit when appropriate but use keyboard/controller buttons in a dogfight.