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I often find myself having to squint or stop and focus to see which way my belt is facing by seeing it move when im connecting or moving belts (especially on turning belts) but adding arrows to belt ghosts would completely eliminate that problem!



If belts had pointers like inserters It would be a wonderful QoL improvement

Just like inserters it would be able to turned on and off and only visible when building new belts

OMG. Yes. +1.

(Sometimes when I read an idea I'm really annoyed that I didn't make that suggestion myself. This is one such case.)

Yes please

Do want
+1

I like it too.

PeteTheLich wrote:but adding arrows to belt ghosts

Ghosts? if you speak about shift-clicked belts, they do not bend at all right now including blueprints (which is a separate thing to improve here)

Yes, and not just with ghosts, actually. The mid-speed belt (red) is already hard to see the direction, blue is... maybe I'm just old But it really *in general* would help to have a cleared, stand-out, non-moving indicator for the direction.

Is it possible to simplify the various belt placement cursors?
It is very difficult (especially with higher rated belts), to see what direction they are actually facing. It is also difficult to see where you missed a belt, or two, or ran out of belt during the upgrade process, until production suffers.

Joined post into this thread.

Great idea. The graphic helps. I suggested the same thing as well:

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=25726

Ripe to be moved into link-collection.

Wouldn't it better to just use the rail laying mechanics with the belt placing?

Otterbear wrote:Is it possible to simplify the various belt placement cursors?
It is very difficult (especially with higher rated belts), to see what direction they are actually facing. It is also difficult to see where you missed a belt, or two, or ran out of belt during the upgrade process, until production suffers.

to me its very difficult to place belts when youre zoomed far out (long reach mod) but especially blue belts are difficult to see the preview

hitzu wrote:Wouldn't it better to just use the rail laying mechanics with the belt placing?

Would that be able to properly depict the curvature of 90º angle belts?

aubergine18 wrote:Would that be able to properly depict the curvature of 90º angle belts?

What do you mean? Can you make an own suggestion, please?