Rocket Silo GUI change to fit on small screens (ipad / steamdeck)
Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2025 8:11 pm
TL;DR
Opening the Rocket Silo GUI shows 3 panels next to each other. The 3rd panel gets cut off at the screen edge if your screen is too small. In other parts of the game, GUIs with 3 panels switch to 2 panels + Tab (i.e. character screen). For consistent accessibility, the Rocket Silo GUI should also switch to 2 panels + Tab.What?
Option 1: Suggested drawing for Rocket Silo GUI to have 2 panels + Tab:- Too wide.png (2.53 MiB) Viewed 238 times
Option 2: Alternative that could also work (cramming the right panels until they fit):
- This still works.png (1.94 MiB) Viewed 238 times
Why?
CONSISTENCY. The Rocket Silo GUI is the ONLY screen that falls off the edge upon opening (in Vanilla. I haven't finished Space Age yet). This breaks the flow of the game for me and reduces ergonomics (awkward clicking and dragging with a controller).ACCESSIBILITY is a big part of what makes this game great on mobile platforms. I play on ipad (streaming from a Linux PC). A lot of people play on Steamdeck.
QUICK FIX POTENTIAL 2 panels + Tab is a fix that has been implemented in other GUIs, so I imagine this could be a quick adjustment.
PS: I play on an iPad with 4:3 aspect ratio, 2048x1536 resolution and 150% scale to which I stream from a Linux desktop using Moonlight/Sunshine streaming software. The fact that this setup has worked flawlessly until this point, 50 hours into a new game in the Space Age expansion, is AMAZING. THANK YOU WUBE!!!