Author Topic: 2010-12-27 - Viper MK7 cockpit (Read 8033 times)

newman · « **on:** December 27, 2010, 10:26:47 am »

Building cockpits is an insane amount of work. Nighteyes built the mesh I then did some upgrades and modifications on. After that I unwrapped it and started texturing. I also built a high poly variant of almost every object in there, and baked normal and specular solutions for them - this can sometimes make rather low poly objects look a lot more detailed than they are. Doing that for every switch and dial is a very labor and time intensive process, however, which is why it took this long to get it in the game.

Also, we said this should go here:

Quote from: irc

[09:50] <newman> hello cockpit my old friend
[09:50] <newman> i've come to scream at you again
[09:51] <@Karajorma> You totally should add those lines (with an apology to Simon and Garfunkel) to the eventual dev blog post about the cockpit
[09:51] <@Karajorma>

There, done. Also, to Simon and Garfunkel - you have my sincere apologies.

On to the more interesting stuff:

Hope you like it, I'm going to stuff myself with christmas food while there's still some of it around

Commander Zane · « **Reply #1 on:** December 27, 2010, 12:34:51 pm »

Holy. ****ing. God.

rscaper1070 · « **Reply #2 on:** December 27, 2010, 01:02:19 pm »

Wow. Absolutely beautiful.

Thaeris · « **Reply #3 on:** December 27, 2010, 01:19:08 pm »

Damn straight, Sir! I salute thee!

Mobius · « **Reply #4 on:** December 27, 2010, 01:25:15 pm »

The DRADIS got implemented... yay!

Angelus · « **Reply #5 on:** December 27, 2010, 02:39:29 pm »

Absolutely epic awesoemness.

swashmebuckle · « **Reply #6 on:** December 27, 2010, 04:26:28 pm »

Snail · « **Reply #7 on:** December 27, 2010, 04:31:10 pm »

Fish · « **Reply #8 on:** December 27, 2010, 04:33:07 pm »

That gave me genuine chills. Nice work!

newman · « **Reply #9 on:** December 27, 2010, 04:38:07 pm »

Hey thanks swash, awesome pic there

Nighteyes · « **Reply #10 on:** December 27, 2010, 05:38:21 pm »

I'm also extremely happy with how it turned out, looks spot on

Fish · « **Reply #11 on:** December 27, 2010, 06:01:01 pm »

I'm super impressed how few stock FS2 HUD elements remain - even the font and targeting brackets are different! Only the direction-to-target triangle and 'T' are recognisable!

Are any of the gauges in the cockpit dynamic, for showing engine/weapon power distribution, or remaining ammunition, for example?

Rodo · « **Reply #12 on:** December 27, 2010, 06:07:04 pm »

Dammit! is that real... or is it a game?

newman · « **Reply #13 on:** December 27, 2010, 06:11:28 pm »

Quote from: Fish on December 27, 2010, 06:01:01 pm

Are any of the gauges in the cockpit dynamic, for showing engine/weapon power distribution, or remaining ammunition, for example?

Well, the dradis is fully functional. The rest of the gauges aren't impossible but they do take up a lot of resources - for now we're being careful with those.

Nighteyes · « **Reply #14 on:** December 27, 2010, 07:36:56 pm »

we do have a depleting ammo gouge... but thats in the HUD

Ace · « **Reply #15 on:** December 27, 2010, 08:00:44 pm »

We've made some MFD mockups, but for now those displays will be handled in the HUD.

Felix 039 · « **Reply #16 on:** December 27, 2010, 09:58:07 pm »

It looks perfect, apart from the fact that the window/glass seems to be missing, or not obvious enough.

FUBAR-BDHR · « **Reply #17 on:** December 27, 2010, 10:40:15 pm »

Transparency issues with the engine so no glass for now.

Commander Zane · « **Reply #18 on:** December 28, 2010, 03:18:53 am »

It would be awsm beyond measure if the FS2 ships could get cockpits like this. I'm really going to need TrackIR for this.

newman · « **Reply #19 on:** December 28, 2010, 04:09:30 am »

Quote from: Commander Zane on December 28, 2010, 03:18:53 am

It would be awsm beyond measure if the FS2 ships could get cockpits like this. I'm really going to need TrackIR for this.

It really would. Unfortunately, it's a pretty labor intensive process and there's a lot of fighters in fs..