reported earlier Make textboxes scale like polygons

[Schlingel mit Kringel]

I would love to see the drawing tools' textboxes behave like the other polygons in a way they scale when the map is zoomed in and out.

Polygons do have their size defined by their X and Y position on the map, so their boundaries always stay in the same place relative to the map. The textboxes on the other hand are defined by text size and just seem to have an X and Y anchor point (lower left corner), resulting in really bad clutter when you zoom out. It would be better if the textboxes had transformation handles (that white squares on polygons you can drag) to define X and Y boundaries. Text size would scale to fit the box instead (drag the box bigger, text gets bigger). That way one could drag textboxes that can easily be read when fully zoomed out (e.g. info about common frequencies, general information) or have small textboxes that can only be read if zoomed in to the particular region of the map (for describing landmarks or even have a longer text next to an airbase to describe rules, frequencies, active runway, pattern altitude...)

Example of the issue: just building a mission template for Syria (heavily wip) and looking to mark lots of important landmarks across the country. Having some textboxes in Aleppo only so far but the map is already cluttered for that region when zoomed out. The dotted outlines on the other hand scale well and become a 1x1px dot at a certain zoom level - would love to see textboxes behave the same.

Zoomed in very close. Textbox is way too small for the area it describes (dotted area). Making the text bigger though would give increased problems when zooming out:

Zoomed out further. Text overlaps the area already despite the text size is very small (8px) :

Zooming out, the dotted lines "stay in place" (shrink in size), text stays same size (8px) though:

Fully zoomed out, textboxes still same size as when zoomed in, resulting in bad clutter:

[Mike_Romeo]

+1

[Elphaba]

When the mission designer creates labels and polygons on the map and lays them out nicely so the labels don't obscure information on the map, these aren't 'locked' in place, so when the map is zoomed in/out these don't scale their locations accurately and move to obscure or block info on the map.

This shouldn't happen. They should stay the same size and same position in relation to the other drawings regardless of zoom level.

[Schlingel mit Kringel]

 

[Elphaba]

12 minutes ago, Schlingel mit Kringel said:

 

I'm saying it's a bug - not a 'wish list' item. We all know wish list items never get actioned. 

[Schlingel mit Kringel]

It does not get better when you add more locations and information by the way

[Schlingel mit Kringel]

1 minute ago, Elphaba said:

I'm saying it's a bug - not a 'wish list' item. We all know wish list items never get actioned. 

Guess it is good to have it both - bug and wishlist. Either will hopefully make it into the game. Just wanted to let you know you are not alone with that issue

[NineLine]

This was requested a while ago internally. Thanks. 

[Schlingel mit Kringel]

5 hours ago, NineLine said:

This was requested a while ago internally. Thanks. 

Great to hear, thanks for letting us know. Having this fixed will be a huge QoL improvement

[NineLine]

I cant promise when it will happen, but wanted to acknowledge it at least. Thanks.