[SUGGESTION-CUT][#003] Grenade, to throw or not to throw?

[Unknown Hero]

3) Tired to click everywhere on the combat area to throw a grenade without knowing if it will work?

When the soldier is ready to throw an object (ex: grenade), moving the mouse cursor over the combat area gives informations.
When the soldier can throw to the selected destination tile, a yellow 3D box is displayed and a message is displayed above the control bar: "Able to throw here!".



When the soldier cannot throw to the selected destination tile, a red 3D box is displayed and a message is displayed above the control bar: "Out of range!" (or "Unable to throw here!" depending the situation).

The 3D box and the message are updated each time the player move the mouse cursor over the tiles.



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Cut from this thread on demand for better convenience:
https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php?topic=2279.0

[Yankes]

This could be used for aiming too. Less clicking more shooting/throwing

[Unknown Hero]

Absolutely. 

[Falko]

+1

[davide]

+1

[Aldorn]

Agree

[Solarius Scorch]

Agreed, as long as it only shows throwing range and not grenade's radius.

[moriarty]

+1

getting "unable to throw here" messages only on mouse-click is very tedious at times... it even leads to click-click-click-click-oops-I-didn't-even-want-to-throw-there situations sometimes.

it would be really nice to display this directly.

[clownagent]

Yes, this addition would be really useful!

[SenniTrebor]

good improvement.

[BlackLibrary]

+1

[Qpoter]

+1

[yrizoud]

Just changing the box color (red=impossible or out of range) would be enough IMO. You'd have the information "Impossible" or "Out of range" if you click anyway.

[darkestaxe]

+1

I'm not sure I like the text strings at the bottom of the screen though, Id prefer something on the cursor. Changing the cursor color seems non-ideal also, and it wouldn't fit international standards for colorblind accessibility.

Wait-a-minute! Why am I even thinking about international accessibility standards for a basement project?

OXC, you have really raised the fucking bar! James Cameron has a diving ball that could use your help!

[Hythlodaeus]

I've already suggested this before myself on the bug tracker, so /thread. Besides, using a new icon is a better idea than using a lit box, given that the latter already means something else on the battlescape UI context, namely that a friendly or enemy unit is targeted. It's a bad idea to use the same element for different contexts.