Sang Jin
Gallente
Heretic Army
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Posted - 2009.02.11 02:16:00 -
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 Originally by: CCP Greyscale
I see this coming up a lot - am I right in thinking that it's really not obvious that the cube is a control? If you want to use homeworld-style controls just use the vertical arrows and the top/bottom surfaces of the cube and that gives you planar+vertical movement. This is the way I've been working with the system so far, but there are several other guys in the office who are using all cube faces to get things positioned much faster.
No, I don't think you are right in thinking that most people don't realize the cube is a control. I think most people DO realize this but have the same problems with it that I have. That is that either the cube is so large that it covers everything around it (including what your scanning and other cubes) making it almost impossible to move the control you actually want to move without moving the others out of the way first, OR, the cube is so small that you couldn't click on the faces even if you wanted to.
I hate to say it but the homeworld method (click and drag freely on a 2D plane, hold a key and drag for the 3rd plane) really is the easiest way of moving any object in 3D space using a 2D pointing device. This method is used by many CAD packages as well, because its actually easy and intuitive. Its MAJOR bonus is that it doesn't litter the screen with controls, you just grab the object and move it.
The box is even annoying for POS deployment, and it gets complaints all the time for that as well, its just that people aren't deploying POSs even 20 mins so they do it once or twice, complain and then get on with their lives hoping they don't have to do it again before the method is fixed.
(Sorry to be so negative, I like the whole scanning system, just not the box control, and this is a perfect opportunity to replace it with something better)
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Sang Jin
Gallente
Heretic Army
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Posted - 2009.02.20 05:06:00 -
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Twice now I have launched a single probe and just pressed scan, gotten an error about something (not being able to scan with a single probe or it having no range set?) and gotten ALL of the hits in system with 100% accuracy.. The first time I just lolled and assumed it was an overview glitch or something, the second time I actually warped to each of them and managed to get a bunch of exploration sites..
Is this a known issue or am I going to have to fill out a bug report? (after trying to reproduce it) Also, its been a few days since I did it and i think there's been an update since then, can someone else give it a try as well?
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