# Can you tilt the tactical overlay plane? **URL:** \ **Category:** New Citizens Q&A\ **Created:** [October 20, 2025, 5:22pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/can-you-tilt-the-tactical-overlay-plane/499504 "2025-10-20T17:22:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tinkerrific](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/tinkerrific/32/467837_2.png) [@Tinkerrific](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Tinkerrific)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2025, 5:22pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/can-you-tilt-the-tactical-overlay-plane/499504/1 "2025-10-20T17:22:12Z")
I like using the tactical overlay because it makes ranges and movement so much easier to see, but frequently I wish I could tilt or change its angle on the fly. For example, if I warp into a combat site and the rats are at range but all “above” the plane made by the tactical overlay, I would like to shift the angle of the plane putting me and the rats all on the same “level”. It’s space there really isn’t an “up” or “down”. ---
**Author:** ![Gerard\_Amatin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/gerard_amatin/32/481361_2.png) [@Gerard\_Amatin](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Gerard_Amatin)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2025, 5:45pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/can-you-tilt-the-tactical-overlay-plane/499504/2 "2025-10-20T17:45:19Z")
I guess you could rotate your monitor? ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/4X/d/4/4/d446dd433c11cad1f990fb8a0e5bc673a7049e3a.jpeg) But I don’t think that’s what you mean. 😃 I agree there’s no up or down in space, but sadly for some game mechanics like this there is a horizontal plane. No way to tilt it. ---
**Author:** ![FlyingDisk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/flyingdisk/32/473076_2.png) [@FlyingDisk](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/FlyingDisk)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2025, 6:19pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/can-you-tilt-the-tactical-overlay-plane/499504/3 "2025-10-20T18:19:39Z")
Eve uses submarine physics with a space skin slapped on top of it. ---
**Author:** ![Pierre\_de\_Bricassart](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/pierre_de_bricassart/32/386093_2.png) [@Pierre\_de\_Bricassart](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Pierre_de_Bricassart)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2025, 8:35am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/can-you-tilt-the-tactical-overlay-plane/499504/4 "2025-10-21T08:35:22Z")
> [@Tinkerrific](#): > > It’s space there really isn’t an “up” or “down”. It’s New Eden Space, there is. ---
**Author:** ![Lissa\_Kalissa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/lissa_kalissa/32/479052_2.png) [@Lissa\_Kalissa](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Lissa_Kalissa)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2025, 9:01am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/can-you-tilt-the-tactical-overlay-plane/499504/5 "2025-10-21T09:01:20Z")
The tactical plane is a fixed imaginary flat _area_ in space around your ship, it isn’t something you can move or bend or manipulate, it exists in your ship’s A.I to give you the pilot more information about the space around you. ---
**Author:** ![Meridan\_Night](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/meridan_night/32/488304_2.png) [@Meridan\_Night](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Meridan_Night)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 7:58am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/can-you-tilt-the-tactical-overlay-plane/499504/6 "2025-10-23T07:58:57Z")
> [@Tinkerrific](#): > > It’s space there really isn’t an “up” or “down”. Tactical overlay is a reference plane with regards to your ship. Up and down, left and right, do exist in terms of your ship. And no, you can’t tilt it. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Rochard](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/john_rochard/32/373864_2.png) [@John\_Rochard](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/John_Rochard)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 10:09pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/can-you-tilt-the-tactical-overlay-plane/499504/7 "2025-10-23T22:09:33Z")
> [@Tinkerrific](#): > > It’s space there really isn’t an “up” or “down”. True. However NASA uses Earth as a source for all their spacecraft to navigate. It could get even more “messy” [using the systems in place at NASA](https://www.nasa.gov/smallsat-institute/sst-soa/guidance-navigation-and-control/). It is a fictional universe and the developer can just make shi… stuff up, to appease the Trekkies in the audience. Don’t make me hit you with a Heisenberg Compensator! Fly safe o7 ---
**Author:** ![Power\_Armor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/power_armor/32/413178_2.png) [@Power\_Armor](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Power_Armor)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 5:30pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/can-you-tilt-the-tactical-overlay-plane/499504/8 "2025-10-25T17:30:55Z")
> [@Tinkerrific](#): > > I would like to shift the angle of the plane putting me and the rats all on the same “level”. It seems it hasn’t occurred to you yet that a plane like you ask for could be mathematically impossible depending on the distribution of the objects? What you are actually asking for is an artificially “dumbed down” view that ignores the Z dimension if the base plane would be in X/Y. Something like the new 2D mode of the map, but without loss of distance information. But maybe you are also using it wrong? After activating tactical overlay you can additionally activate the tactical camera. And this enables you to turn the view, pan around and see the distance projection from above, all detached from your ship… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/4/1/41ec4921cbaca7a6f9ea556e7cc20018461eae5e.png) [@system](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2026, 5:31pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/can-you-tilt-the-tactical-overlay-plane/499504/9 "2026-01-23T17:31:18Z")
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