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The Inner Thought system and player interaction in general were among the major new features introduced in Star Citizen Alpha 3.0. Is that it? Is that all we're getting?

TL;DRThe Inner Thought radial wheel is still being built, currently structurally working but unstyled, and will give access to things like exiting a seat, emotes, flashlight and tools, as a complement to the world-click interaction system.

Calix ReneauUI Designer

Yeah, as usual, we're finished from the gate. So much of this is coming together still. We're iterating on it and doing all kinds of things, including doing a whole other aspect to it. Basically, the interaction system is really good for finding things in the world to click on and interacting with them in bespoke ways. Just go out there and see what you get. But it's not so great at things that don't really have a logical place out in the world. Where would you click exactly to exit your seat or to holster your weapon or to do your emotes? We have a little personal Inner Thought radial wheel that comes up and gives you access to all that stuff. Actually, I am working on that now, so I can share my screen right now. There it is. I know, I know. It's living the life and it only gets better. When you trigger it, the radial wheel comes out and you can select from a whole batch of things that will look prettier than this when Art gets a chance to touch it. Currently I'm doing the structure of it, making it so that it responds and does the design that we want, and then Art gets the chance to make it not green and ugly. For instance, this box will be a little image to indicate that when you select this, it opens up a sub-menu. You can turn your flashlight on and off. Like I said, you can exit your seat. You can find all the emotes that we have, interact with your various tools. It's coming along. And it's just a matter of iterating on it and getting it over to Art so that they can have it ready to put out.

Jared HuckabyHost, Community Content Manager

So if this were similar to the ship pipeline, this is sort of like a white box phase.

Calix ReneauUI Designer

Yeah. Actually, that's pretty apropos, because everything is placed, everything is working, and it's just not pretty.

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Published on this date.15 Jan 2018