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Starmade | Confusing coordinate system color
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Description

Actually the planes colors of build mode are :
XY plane = blue, XZ plane = green, YZ plane = red

But Galaxy Map axis colors are:
Z = blue, X = red, Y = green

While this seems to make sense since the colors chosen are supposed to link planes and axis since the XY plane indiquate to the player he's preparing to build mirrored entity on the Z axis (blue), XZ on Y axis (green) and YZ the axis on X (red) ; concretely that bound is totally invisible which makes it completely abstruse.
Worse, it has the opposite effect since the planes take the color of the axis which passes through them perpendicularly making sound like if the the 2 coordinate system were antagonist and this fact causes some misunderstanding, some disorientations.

At first glance,

the XY plane seems more bound to the red X axis on galaxy map

The XZ plane seems more bound to the blue Z axis on galaxy map

The YZ plane seems more bound to the green Y axis on galaxy map

It may worth to concretize the link just by rendering the concerned perpendicular axis line in middle of the block and thus bound the two coordinate system obviously.

Details

Task Type
Bug
Testing Results
Affected Gamemode(s)
Single and Multi
Reproducible
Yes
Last tested (version)
0.19594 (Dev)
Category
Ingame GUI/HUD
First occurrence (version)
0.18
Hardware/Software/System
OS-Specific
No
Hardware-Specific
No
Video Card Vendor
uncertain
Steps to reproduce
  1. Build a ship.
  2. Apply planes
  3. Open Galaxy map
  4. Compare the 2 coordinate system colors
Serverconfig (server.cfg)
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Clientconfig (settings.cfg)
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Event Timeline

Croquelune updated the task description. (Show Details)Feb 28 2016, 4:45 AM
Croquelune changed Category from none/unspecified to Ingame GUI/HUD.
Croquelune edited Serverconfig (server.cfg). (Show Details)
Croquelune edited Clientconfig (settings.cfg). (Show Details)
Croquelune changed Affected Gamemode(s) from none/unspecified to Single and Multi.
Croquelune changed Reproducible from uncertain to Yes.
Croquelune set Last tested (version) to 0.19563.
Croquelune edited Steps to reproduce. (Show Details)
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I don't really think it's confusing, to me it's somewhat logical. Map orientation could be more user friendly but changing these colours wouldn't help, not a bug either.

both are:
XY plane => only free axis: ZBlue
XZ plane => only free axis: YGreen
YZ plane => only free axis: XRed

Rejecting

lancake shifted this object from the S1 Public space to the S3 Starmade space.Mar 5 2016, 10:58 PM
lancake changed the visibility from "Custom Policy" to "Public (No Login Required)".
lancake changed the edit policy from "Task Author" to "Starmade (Project)".
lancake set Task Type to Bug.
lancake set First occurrence (version) to 0.18.
lancake set OS-Specific to No.
lancake set Hardware-Specific to No.
lancake set Video Card Vendor to uncertain.
lancake changed Last tested (version) from 0.19563 to 0.19594 (Dev).
lancake closed this task as Rejected.
lancake triaged this task as Trivial priority.
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AndyP moved this task from Unclassed to Archived on the Starmade board.Mar 20 2016, 9:16 AM
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