On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 3:00 AM, Stuart Buchanan wrote:
> The main reason for including it is that I find that I rarely want to play
> the replay from
> the cockpit. I'm typically trying to judge how good my 3-point taildragger
> landing was,
> which is best done from a different view.
>
> I'm guessing most people use replays to see what happened from a different
> viewpoint.
>
> As Tom points you, you can change view very quickly. However, we now have a
> very
> large number of different views, and aircraft can (and do) add their own.
> While developers
> like ourselves are very au-fait with cycling between the views, I think
> more in-experienced
> users may struggle. Some may not even be aware that other views are
> available.
>
> Providing a convenient way for the user to select their initial view, and
> in particular using
> the view names themselves makes things a lot easier.
>
> Note that the drop-down defaults to the currently selected view, so there's
> no change in
> function if you just press OK.
>
>
I don't know if this would overly clutter the gui, but perhaps it would be
useful to add a short blurb reminding the user that they can still change
views using the normal mechanism during the replay. My initial reaction
when I first saw the view selection dialog box was that I wondered if people
might think that by offering a dialog box, their choice would lock them into
a specific view for the entire replay?
Here's a random idea ... thinking as I type here ...
What about adding a view selection dialog box to the main menu bar that
users can easily find and use during all phases of flight and during
replay? Adding an easy to use menu/dialog box option is the way to counter
hidden keyboard commands that many new users might not stumble upon for
quite a while ... ?
Regards,
Curt.
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Curtis Olson: http://baron.flightgear.org/~curt/
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