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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZPCiqBLPM8&feature=player_embedded EVE Origins video] | [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZPCiqBLPM8&feature=player_embedded EVE Origins video] | ||
== | ==User Interface: Radial Menu== | ||
In an effort to move away from everything being accessed through multilevel right click drop down menus with 20+ entries, Team Pony Express digged up the old radial menu and gave it a huge overhaul - graphically as well as functionally. | In an effort to move away from everything being accessed through multilevel right click drop down menus with 20+ entries, Team Pony Express digged up the old radial menu and gave it a huge overhaul - graphically as well as functionally. | ||
[[File:Radialmenu.jpg|200px|thumb|center|Radial Menu (Station)]] | |||
The new radial menu will pop up when you hold down the left mouse button on any item for a short moment, be it a bracket in space, an item on the overview or one of your locked targets. With left click still pressed you can then release upon the option of your choice. Some of them, like orbit, react dynamically (in this case varying orbiting range) to your cursor position relative to the center of the menu. | |||
The menu is split into 8 segments. The 12 o'clock position will allways be a primary action like jump for stargates, board for ships, dock for stations or open cargo for containers. On the opposite side, in the 6 o'clock position there will allways be the targeting command. To the left (9 o'clock) and right (3 o'clock) you will find show info and a button for some additional options, like look at or bookmark. The rest of the sections, one each lying in between the positions I already explained, will hold the navigational commands, align, warp to, orbit and keep at range. | The menu is split into 8 segments. The 12 o'clock position will allways be a primary action like jump for stargates, board for ships, dock for stations or open cargo for containers. On the opposite side, in the 6 o'clock position there will allways be the targeting command. To the left (9 o'clock) and right (3 o'clock) you will find show info and a button for some additional options, like look at or bookmark. The rest of the sections, one each lying in between the positions I already explained, will hold the navigational commands, align, warp to, orbit and keep at range. | ||
You will be able to rebind the key for the radial menu and its delay in the game's options. | You will be able to rebind the key for the radial menu and its delay in the game's options. | ||
Read more on this feature in the | Read more on this feature in [http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/new-radial-menu/ the dev blog] and an update to it in [https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=3091534#post3091534 this forum post]. | ||
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruiPh3QYAJo&feature=player_embedded Video of Fanfest presentation: Improving User Experience] | |||
Also, there will be an individual small radial menu for the scanning button, at the left side of your ship's HUD. The left (9 o'clock) option will take you the probe scanning window, the right one (3 o'clock) to the directional scanning window and the bottom one (6 o'clock) to the moon survey window. With the top option (12 o'clock) you can toggle whether you want the Discovery Scanner overlay to be displayed or not (learn more about the Discovery Scanner in section 1.1.). | Also, there will be an individual small radial menu for the scanning button, at the left side of your ship's HUD. The left (9 o'clock) option will take you the probe scanning window, the right one (3 o'clock) to the directional scanning window and the bottom one (6 o'clock) to the moon survey window. With the top option (12 o'clock) you can toggle whether you want the Discovery Scanner overlay to be displayed or not (learn more about the Discovery Scanner in section 1.1.). | ||
[[File:Scanradial.jpg|200px|thumb|center|Scanner Radial Menu]] | |||
==10 "Little Things" aka The Rest== | ==10 "Little Things" aka The Rest== | ||