Flight HUD: navball, staging stack and crew portraits in ascent

About this game

Developer: Squad · Publisher: Private Division · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Stylized 3D · Screen type: HUD & Gameplay UI

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What to study

One instrument does most of the flying. The navball - a literal attitude ball with the ship's marker fixed at its centre - sits at the bottom middle of the screen at all times, ringed by the readouts that orbit it: surface speed (24.0m/s here), heading (262 deg), throttle arc and G meter. Around that anchor the HUD is all clusters with jobs: the altimeter tape top centre (008237 m, with its atmosphere depth bar), the staging stack down the left with per-stage LiquidFuel bars (the launch plan, draining in public), and the crew as three portrait plates bottom right - Seanvin, Jonpond and Hadlong as faces, not icons, so a staging accident has names attached. A rocket at 49 seconds into flight, already pitched over and burning sideways, is flown entirely off this furniture; there is no chase-cam flying by eye at 8 km. Frame at about 0:43 in the CommNet Trailer (Steam), a scene-change survivor (v1_0007).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

status-row portrait-panel action-bar dual-meters

Components

Parts on screen.

Tabs Portrait Resource bar Gauge Clock

Screen inventory

• the navball centred at bottom: blue/brown attitude ball, Surface 24.0m/s readout, HDG 262 deg, throttle and G-force arcs around its rim
• top-centre altimeter cluster: 008237 m tape readout, atmosphere bar and vertical-speed dial
• left staging stack: stage 0/1 tabs with four LiquidFuel resource bars
• bottom-left stage/controls cluster: STAGE 001, RCS and pitch/yaw trim gauges
• bottom-right crew portraits: Seanvin, Jonpond and Hadlong Kerman in their IVA helmets, name-plated
• top-left mission clock: T+ 0y, 0d, 00:00:49 MET with CommNet signal bars

Top 3 colors

#131727 25%#38495c 19%#4d6562 17%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© Squad / Private Division, Kerbal Space Program screenshot: CommNet Trailer video (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Private Division.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-21. verified 2026-10-21: scene-change frame v1_0007 (CommNet Trailer @43.1s) inspected at full resolution (1920x1080 native); genuine in-game flight HUD confirmed settled and legible (navball graduations, 008237 altimeter, staging/resource bars, all three crew name plates readable); no trailer text or watermark overlays the frame; the 'V: 1.2.0.1569-pre' build string at the bottom edge is the source capture's own readout

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