Improvement: Radar auto-zoom on cargo cannisters#5948
Improvement: Radar auto-zoom on cargo cannisters#5948sturnclaw merged 2 commits intopioneerspacesim:masterfrom
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Similar to auto-zooming on ships, add the capability for the radar to auto-zoom on cargo containers. This is very useful when scooping multiple cargo containers in an area, as otherwise the radar is liable to zoom out to infinity in-between scooping containers. This makes it very difficult to lock on to the next container. TODO: the radar should be switchable between auto and manual modes, with the manual mode being controllable by the keyboard/joystick. A radar mode and range indicator might also be useful to add. In future, different radar equipment could provide different ranges and/or capabilities.
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The ability to switch radar zoom modes would be most welcome. I think you could do that with the old radar on the old dashboard UI, but not sure if it ever worked. |
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Would you like to track the TODO items somewhere else or address them before merge?
I give this branch my blessing as a useful feature.
I think the TODO is going to be non-trivial (and I mostly wrote it as a braindump rather than something specifically for this PR) but i think the change as-is is already quite valuable and could be merged as an immediate QoL improvement. Captured the TODO here (please let me know if there's a better place) : |
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That is a good enough spot - do note that you (should) have the ability to push changes to the dev docs now, to document "officially accepted" |
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Similar to auto-zooming on ships, add the capability for the radar to auto-zoom on cargo containers. This is very useful when scooping multiple cargo containers in an area, as otherwise the radar is liable to zoom out to max-zoom-range in-between scooping containers. This makes it very difficult to lock on to the next container.
TODO:
The radar should be switchable between auto and manual modes, with the manual mode being controllable by the keyboard/joystick.
A radar mode and range indicator might also be useful to add.
In future, different radar equipment could provide different ranges and/or capabilities.