1: "Remember, who you are!"
2: "... I am bnuy?"

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"This is supposed to be the options menu?"
"... it's about as tidy in here as it is in my own head."
"... wait!? I know this place... this IS my own head!"
"Are we the diagetic UI?"

(I promise I'm onto something here... work in progress, very much in progress...)
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The idea is to help with spatial perception by always having some kind of visual parallax hints. When the user wants to look a certain way, the focused object moves out of the way but stays in the frame, so the spatial relationship is preserved and the players don't get literally lost in space.

I am once again evolving my input controller. 😼

Still lacks the focus / sensitivity heuristic, but #GodotEngine has InputEvents that I can use to compoe actions into intuitive "point to bring me the horizon" gestures.

This is 100% mouse wheel, look, middle and right mouse button.

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Something like that, I guess. Need to figure out how to generate my star catalog into into a Godot .tres file...

Anyway - in the process, I explored shader instance variables, managing texture arrays as resources, and how to render scaled billboards with a custom spatial shader.

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Curiosity killed the cat, but attention to detail brought it back!

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