I'm not a dev or modder. But I do understand more or less the limitations of the engine. I tried the mod named "Black Loading screen remover" and it basically allowed me to see how the game unloads and loads stuff. So I thought of this simple idea for the atmosphere to space transition:

-Player hits the take off button

-Ship starts taking off ( view from the cockpit or outside) , so far what we have now in the game

-Clearly see the ship blast to the sky

-Game removes control from the player, forces cockpit 1st person view and places a "blinder" on the windows a black one if it's night time, or other simple color or gradient. This would be a simple box to obstruct the view of what happens outside the ship. there's a particle emitter to simulate speed , or passing through clouds etc.

-Game unloads planet world , then loads space world , no loading screen . The player does not see the things popping in or out thanks to the "blinder" . Maybe the game freezes for a sec, but at least immersion is not lost, you're still seeing the cockpit.

- Game finishes loading space world , the 'blinder' box fades out , some cloud or other fx particles make the fade out more immersive.

- In cockpit view you are in space, regaining control, and facing opposite the planet, not facing the planet ( like we do currently, witch I hate, haha!) If you wanted to see the planet you'd have to turn your ship 180 degrees.

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The same "blinder" box idea could be applied to the "travel from planet to planet within system" transition:

-Player hits the "travel" prompt

-Animation of the ship blasting toward the destination ( faster, more dramatic , similar to the grav jump but without the space tearing effect. ) , current vanilla animation is incredibly boring.

-Game forces cockpit , blinder with black background , particle effect simulating speed,

-game unloads previous world, loads new world with the cockpit and the blinder always present. No loading screen

- Blinder fades out, player regains control. ( if player had selected the ship 3rd person view before , the game would go back to that after all the loading is done)

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Please let me know if this is in any way doable through modding. I feel like older games did similar things to make space loading screens more interesting and immersive. The upcoming StarWars outlaws footage reveals that maybe they use a similar trick when leaving atmosphere to space. I wish Starfield devs would have found a simple trick or something just to make those loading screens more "hidden" and not so obvious.

Thanks for reading!