Ship building, adjusting the green arrow

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Has anyone figured out how you adjust the green arrow on the various sliders in the ship designer without holding the left mouse button on it and moving the mouse left or right? In other words, whenever you click the increase/decrease arrows on the slider it only applies to the red arrow. As well manually clicking the numbers after you have moved the green arrow does not change them. The number you entered may be displayed, but its not the number used by the designer.

Frustrated.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Bumping. Anyone?

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

sorry mate dunno  :'(

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I would also like to know how to do this, since mousedragging is, well, clumsy and difficult to match precisely over multiple parts due to slider inaccuracy. honestly I think it's a GUI problem where they really need two number boxes for that slider, but what can you do?

Reply #4 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting Mechworks, reply 3

I would also like to know how to do this, since mousedragging is, well, clumsy and difficult to match precisely over multiple parts due to slider inaccuracy. honestly I think it's a GUI problem where they really need two number boxes for that slider, but what can you do?

 

Indeed. I sent a request for help through their support page, but its not a big issues so its unlikely to get fixed. No fault of theirs of course. : )

Reply #5 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

honestly, they could have fixed it by making the sliders more accurate/larger, too-  not like we need precision better than tenths of a percent unless we're completely OCD about things. but yeah, this is just a small bit of poor GUI design- hell, if it was me, I'd have used Slash values (IE "180.6/90") if for some reason multiple input fields wasn't in the cards.

Reply #6 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting Mechworks, reply 5

honestly, they could have fixed it by making the sliders more accurate/larger, too-  not like we need precision better than tenths of a percent unless we're completely OCD about things. but yeah, this is just a small bit of poor GUI design- hell, if it was me, I'd have used Slash values (IE "180.6/90") if for some reason multiple input fields wasn't in the cards.

Its frustrated me a bit before, but recently I was making a design that required a very small negative number for green, but I can't get it due to the design. So my awesome ship design is unfinished. : (

Reply #7 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

if you have a mouse capable of it crank the dpi way up, you won't be able to move around the screen quickly but it'll give you wicked accuracy on stuff like the negative range slider.  I use one that has an extra button that jacks the DPI up and switch to ramp it up even further, its a huge help, but yeah they need to put some direct controls in for those sliders.