Cockpit: hailing channel and ship console readouts

About this game

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

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What to study

No Man's Sky puts its ship HUD inside the cockpit itself: each console screen is a diegetic panel with its own job, from the left panel's planet readout and radar to the center panel's hailing-channel message and the right panels' shield meter and weapon name, so the player reads the ship's state by looking around the cabin rather than at an overlay. The dialogue bar along the bottom keeps the developer narration legible without covering the panels, with the speaker's name in its own tag above the line. Frame at about 124.1s in the COSMOS Deep Dive (Steam). No trailer burn-in or caption on this frame.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

diegetic-controls status-row hud-overlay

Components

Parts on screen.

Dialogue box Subtitles Nameplate Gauge

Screen inventory

• cockpit console panels: left panel with planet Oria V, distance readout, and a circular radar; center panel reading HAILING CHANNEL OPEN, Signal Override: Hello Games
• right panels: ship name Rasamama S36 with a SHIELD meter, and a Photon Cannon weapon panel
• dialogue bar at bottom: speaker tag Hello Games, line 'So sat in our little office one night, we started to build it.'
• joystick and throttle controls in the foreground, ringed planet and asteroids visible through the canopy

Top 3 colors

#020501 23%#0a0902 22%#32541a 20%

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

Source and credit

© Hello Games, No Man's Sky screenshot: COSMOS Deep Dive (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Hello Games.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-30. verified 2026-10-30: frame inspected visually at full resolution; console panels, hailing text, shield meter, weapon panel, and dialogue bar all legible; frame from the official COSMOS Deep Dive on Steam

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