Vector thruster offset

[Lurkily]

I noticed that you can't offset a vector thruster by rotating it.  For instance, suppose I wanted its trust to put it alongside an object.  If you set it to thrust 90 degrees to the right of your drone core, it would circle your core until it was to the left of the thruster.

You could visualize this by rotating the arrow on the vector thruster to point toward the offset, which would default to 0 degrees. (Straight toward the target.)

[ManTheMister]

There would need to be an intuitive way to let the players know if it’s 90 degrees right or 90 degrees left.

[Lurkily]

I would have it list a degree setting, not lock it to 90 degrees.  To illustrate, I would rotate the arrow relative to the thrust nozzle.  Arrow points to the target, but the thrust nozzle maintains its orientation relative to it.

[ManTheMister]

Right, but it being [insert number of degrees here] would need to be either left  or right. Traditionally, right is positive and left is negative, but not everyone knows that. The UI for setting it would have to be intuitive.

[Lurkily]

I figure that seeing the arrow rotate as you move the slider would provide the visual cue, but you could always put CW and CCW on either end of the slider if it's confusing.

[ManTheMister]

Ok. I just don’t want people to forget about UI.

sometimes people have this amazing idea, but when they try to implement it, it would need some crazy convoluted UI that would take ages to learn.

this isn’t that complicated, but every aspect of a suggestion needs to work for the suggestion as a whole to work.

[Lurkily]

No, it's cool, nitpicking is what pulls complex ideas into clear implementations.  I'm just a grumpy little shit right now.