Friday 2010-11-19 Dev. update and Discussion

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Originally Posted by ECV56_Lancelot

It's all a matter of taste, and mostly irrellevant, but i disagree with you. Just for getting it out of my chest i have to say that i don't like the GUI, because it looks too modern for a ww2 sim.
I would keep the way text is displayed, but i would prefer somethin that looks like a old desktop with a book open, like a manual, where you see the rows with the commandss, and on the right writen on hand made letter, with diferent color, the key assigned to that command. Or something like that.
Maybe i'm too old school, but i think that a ww2 sim GUI should look more like something old and not modern.

Just an opinion, after all the great things that has been showed of aircraft, terrain, skins and so on, what ever they choose and do with the GUI, its fine by me.

I agree with Lancelot.
While the GUI is "fine" (clean, etc... etc...), it's very boring.

Here's an idea to make it much more graphical.

Have a cut-away of a He-111 (it has to be some aircraft that uses almost all of the available controls- though ideally you could profile any aircraft you wished),
clicking on the landing gear selects the gear assignment, then push the button that you wish to assign - graphic: the landing gear goes up to confirm selection.

for the engine controls, graphical zoom in on the throttle quadrant and associated controls, click on the labeled item, assign button

For the bombardier controls the same. Graphical zoom in on the equipment in the cockpit, direct assigning of controls via mouse + game device button.

This would be so much more interesting and intuitive than the old IL2 "endless-scrolling until you get to the right control" exercise.

I know it's probably too late to suggest this, unfortunately.

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