Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Hi,

I love the radial menus and its a great feature. However there are two major tweaks I would make:

1. Make them scale. They can be awkward to use around edge of screen due to size. I don't think the size is very much off but I would like to be able to make them about 20% smaller.

2. Sub-menus are very awkward and should instead be a smaller pop-out arc so the mouse motion is not so awkward. I really like how I can basically use mouse motions in the radial menu without even having to worry about clicking on a specific button. Allows much easier usage and memorization.

For example launch drones, i just click, drag up, and release without worrying about anything else. Simple, effective, and after 2 usages its muscle memory. While on the other hand recall drones menu option requires stopping on the menu button, waiting for sub-menu, and walking almost 180 degrees back along the same circle. This will always be awkward and difficult.

If we had arc-type sub menus we could have easy mouse motions with simple curves witch would be easy to internalize.

Sub-menu arc would be something like the picture below. Perhaps I would make the submenu buttons a bit smaller but note the spacing that allows for smoother mouse motion curves.

example: https://yearntech.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/submenu.png