Multipurpose Digital Display

this MFD concept is for planes. Does anybody thought about making a guided positioning system for Rovers? This is still missing, but it would change the world :) because you could do so much more than with planes. E.G. you land on every planet with a ATV not with a plane !!! Therefore you need a guiding system otherwise you will drive still by sight, this is history like in the 70ies, But We want GPS now - thanks for reading anyways :D

The father of the MFD

@TopSecret2 same

Holy mother of part counts

Me: loads plane onto game, disregarding part count
Game: loads the craft, with a 20 second lag spike
Me: selects the part search menu
Game: Aight Imma head out (crashes)

VERY GOOD!

@s5ehfr9 there's no rush, this is still just a game. Disabling drag and collisions always helps (even more when you have this many parts). In the designer turning off the unused attachment nodes prevents the lag spike when dragging parts and grouping helps a lot. Not many players care about this, but when crafts start to get larger and complex it's a must to manage all the perks.
Scaling the parts can mess with the physics calculations sometimes, so it's better to just have a very thin and small fuselage or strut. That also makes it super cheap and lightweight.

I am taking a break from this game for exams at school so the updated more efficient version will not be coming shortly.

@pedro16797 Exactly the kind of advice I need. I never thought about that physics and scaling could slow it down so it is something I need to work on.

I do have some redundant code left in the editor but I just didn't bother to clean them up because I thought almost no one would look inside. The code is definitely not optimized though, but it is natural to lose efficiency when using abstraction and I'm not planning to make the code any harder to understand.

I also had the look material of the screen right, just not here. I started working on this from a giant screen with unscaled pixels and it looked great. However, when I was trying to install it onto this craft I found it easier to just rebuild the screen completely, and I think I just took a few seconds on the material on this one.

Some suggestions to improve performance:
Don't use part and mass scale, use a strut with the appropriate size instead
Don't include in drag and disable part collisions
There have to be ways to improve the program, I don't have time to check it now and suggest changes but on a first glance it looks a bit overcomplicated

Some suggestions to improve looks:
Align them correctly
Play a bit more with the material, you're going in the right direction

Overall, great job, impressive first steps into making a display

@CodeCaptain It is possible to reduce lag by cutting down the resolution of the screen, but 64x64 is already quite small to work with. At the early stages of developing this, I also questioned if this is practical at all. I was planning to make it 100x100 but my laptop couldn't really handle it and I had to make a compromise between resolution and part count. In the end, I ended up with a resolution that just works and my laptop can just manage. So, yeah, the practical margin is quite small and you need a powerful device to run this on.

epic
lol
fancy !

Underrated !

@Kell could you give me some suggestions?
Since you are the most skilled vizzy programmer I know : )

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Outstanding