Add Favorites Tab in Scenery Window #25019
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Great idea, hope this could be implemented someday! |
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So amazing 😍 |
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I really like the idea, the thing I think will be the most debatable is this part though:
Because I can see some people wanting to have "global" favorites and others "locals" |
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The window is already hideously complicated and messy. In its current state, I would veto the PR. I am open a redesign of the window, if anyone who has some UX skills wants to try their hand. |
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I can take a look at it. Where can I find, if any, technical limitations to the UI? That way I know the constraints I'm working within. |
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The biggest constraint we face is how manual the UI is. Every button, every window-related event has to be coded. We have some abstractions already in place but only for events, not for the layout. Still, I think we can code whatever you design. Another limitation is the UI has the same palette, refresh rate, resolution as the main game. |
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I've an alternative that would achieve some of the same goals as having a favourites tab: a recently placed items tab. This would show the 18 (2 rows of 9) most recent placed items in the current save game (so it's not global). When starting a park this list is of course empty and populates in order of items placed. When placing an item that's already on the recent items list, the order in the list does not change for the sake of ergonomics. |
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This is something that's been mentioned before and has been highly requested by several people. Took a crack at a Proof of Concept and want to start a discussion.
Proof Of Concept:
In this implementation, the player can hover over the corner of the scenery cell in the content view to show a new icon. Clicking here fills in the icon, flagging the object as favorited. Clicking again will reset the flag. The icon is hidden unless solid or hovered, to minimize change to the window's visual feel.
The Favorites tab itself is reserved and set aside, like the All Scenery tab. When empty, It's hidden via Widget Flags. The scenery window reacts dynamically to favorite flags, and items can be removed from within the tab itself.
Favorites are saved per park file, rather than as a global setting. It is similar to how restricted items are implemented. To handle it, a new chunk in the .park format is created. (This maybe could be condensed with the restricted chunk into a single Scenery Flags chunk, but that's probably a future conversation)
If this is a feature the team is interested in, I can start a PR for this.
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