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Inspector Dryfish 10-28-2008 11:18 AM

Creature feature?
 
This might be an easy freebie, so I'm posting in the Beta forum, rather than the wish-list. If it's silly or if it would require any significant effort, just move this thread and/or tell me to shut up. :silent:

Add a switch to wireframe mode such that all the non-fishy wildlife has labels.

In other words, put the common and latin names beside each coral, shell, and other significant object - a "map key" or group-photo key for those of us who don't have marine biology degrees, or a real marine aquarium at home.

The names would not even need to be attached to the chorals, once they are made .... um.... pliable/wavy. It's not like they'll ever uproot and move around the tank, so the text labels could be fixed - for least-effort implementation.

Alternatively, if you can find a letter that's not already used, perhaps in the normal view, a hot-key press could bring up an overlay of text to name the various thingies for 30 seconds or so before fading away.

Obviously, very low priority, but if it's a simple addition, why not? It's a new and fabulous tank, and people would enjoy knowing what they're looking at.

Regards,

- Kevin
(Ottawa, Canada)

Jim Sachs 10-28-2008 07:09 PM

Pretty good idea, I might just do that.

feldon34 10-28-2008 10:47 PM

There's a thread right here with the names of the coral:
https://www.feldoncentral.com/forums...ead.php?t=4499

Inspector Dryfish 11-11-2008 10:05 AM

Creature Feature (naming)
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by feldon32 (Post 106815)
There's a thread right here with the names of the coral:
https://www.feldoncentral.com/forums...ead.php?t=4499


Yeah, I saw that today when I came back. Downloaded the high-res picture. Thanks.

But still, if it's not a big effort, I think it would be a nice feature as I described it, since I'm sure that only a fraction of MA users participate in these forums. Also, unless you make Simico's picture-with-the-names sticky somehow, that thread is soon going to vanish into the archives where few people will ever see it.

Oh, hey! I just thought of a work-intensive way to make the proposed feature fancier (as if you needed that) - embed the names in each object, and provide a "magnifying glass" cursor mode such that when the mouse pointer is moved over a planted creature, its name expands to readabililty, then shrinks back to invisibility as the "magnifier moves on. Sort of a Mac-ish take on hover-text/tooltips.

There, now. Doesn't the original proposal seem easier already? :lol:



[Edit]
PS: I see that the thread is sticky within the Beta3 forum, but I was taking the long view. Once MA3 leaves Beta, it'll be several years till the next major version, so the entire forum would slide into obscurity. Meantime, you'd have /t/h/o/u/s/a/n/d/s/ hundreds-of-thousands of new customers... :-)

Tiny Turtle 11-11-2008 10:18 AM

Dry,
In post #2, Jim liked the idea and indicated he would try and implement it. That's not good?


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