Disappearing cursor of mouse in 3D cocpit - idea

[Viper]

I like idea to hide cursor after 0-10 sec.

[_YoYo_]

I think it isnt a big problem if the cursor will be hide after some seconds as default option without any differents. If You touch a mouse again, the cursor will be displaed again in the last position. It works like in FSX.

[SG1_Lud]

Originally Posted by Blackdog_kt

Pretty good i'd say. What would be best is if the invisible cursor would still activate pop-up tooltips.

This way, even with the cursor being invisible you could still get pop-ups displaying instrument information.

Then you could use it with your view controls too to scan your instruments: place cursor in the center of the screen, wait for it to disappear and then you can get a read-out of each instrument by looking at it, without having the cursor displaying in the center of your screen.

I have an idea that is the following: make an optional tiny dot in the center of the screen. When you place this dot with your view over an instrument, you get a pop-up label. The properties of this label, (position, color, transparency etc) would be user configurable.

I came to this idea after a workaround I am using now for knowing always where is the center of the screen when using trackir. I created a new info window, naked and with no info, which only has a title. In the title I put a small "+" and place it in the exact center of the screen. Useful for zooming in/out without losing reference.

[JG52Uther]

Its a good idea! Personally I have the control (F10) on a button on my stick, so can turn it on and off very quickly.
IIRC the cursor needs to be enabled to use chat in multiplayer, so it might be complicated to change it.