dantman
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4 years ago FSS mode has been started with a FSS mode context, radio tuning control, and an exit button on the same binding as galaxy map exit.
I'll probably want to implement a few controls and a new set of input bindings:
- A floating help button to activate the help interface (however if this help interface uses UI input I'll need to figure out if there's a way to handle that without messing things up)
- For panning/yawing in FSS mode I'll probably want to bind the controller's touchpad/joystick to that instead of creating a control for it. This should be a vector which will be mapped directly to a vector/axis rather than to POVs. However I should take the Vive's trackpad into account and make it possible for this to work both as a position only thing but also as a press and hold thing which may require an extra binding and a heuristic check to see if the press action is bound onto the same input.
- The zoom however comes in two flavours a zoom used to zoom into/out of signals and a "stepped" zoom used to zoom in/out when focused on a region with multiple signals. So we may need a special control for this rather than input bindings.
shadow7483147
The "Beyond" update of Elite Dangerous added two new cockpit modes that are fairly different than any of the other cockpit modes.
Both of the modes are quite different from the cockpit or map modes. You get a view of space from the perspective of your ship, without any of the ship or cockpit internals being visible. You can only pitch and yaw the view, and there are special bindings for each.
The Full Spectrum System Scanner mode is activated using a keybinding (we'll need a button for it that only shows up in analysis mode). We'll need a separate button to exit it. You enter this mode while at a near-zero speed and rotate the view to look around in all directions scanning things. There are special bindings needed for "tuning" (2 buttons or an axis), a hold binding to initiate a discovery scan, zoom in/out bindings that are used to focus on targets, "stepped" zoom/in out which I can't figure out the purpose of, and a binding to select the current target as a target. There's also a help button that opens a help interface which also opens the first time you open FSS, which will need menu button handling.
The Detailed Discovery Scanner is somewhat different. It's instead initiated using a fire key. It uses that same fire key to fire a probe and has a binding for exit (we may want to warn users to make the DSS a primary fire and bind exit to the application menu so they can enter SAA with the trigger, fire probes with the trigger, then exit with secondary fire). Unlike FSS mode: you normally enter this mode while you are holding onto the joystick; you normally aim towards the planetary body you're approaching so you don't look around; and you may end up dropping in and out of the mode quickly. So instead of custom look bindings, we probably want to keep the same joystick that is currently being held. Though we may want to hide the throttle. There's also a button to toggle viewing the front of/back of the planet. Though I think binding this to a POV button works best.