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The disappearing ramp was getting on my nerves

Making the ramp transparent solved one visibility problem and created a distraction of its own.

  • Visibility
  • Playtesting

Raised ramps can hide quite a lot of the table. We already had a highlight that helps show the ball through an obstruction, but I wanted to see whether fading the ramp would make things even clearer.

We tried transparency, then made it temporary so it happened when the ball was hidden. In practice, the constant fading kept pulling my attention away from the actual shot. I was noticing the ramp changing more than I wanted to.

So the ramp stays solid now, and the obscured-ball highlight does the visibility work. Different camera views help too. This was one of those changes that sounded like an obvious improvement until I played with it for a while. Keeping track of the ball matters, but the rest of the board shouldn't have to keep disappearing to do it.