Originally posted by aldo_14
In order for that HUD to take up the entire view, you'd have to be sitting with your nosed pressed against the glass.
Now that doesn't make sense.
ROFL! Anyone who says that pic makes a cockpit 3d view impossible should go look at the extreme closeup shots of the Terran-Vasudan Shield Test Cutscene and the guy at the communications station on the GTI Riviera in Ross 128. the screens on those REUSE FREESPACE 1 INTERFACE OPTION MENUS FOR THEIR BACKGROUND SCREENS.
In other words, I firmly believe that Volition got lazy and decided that if they just used a screenshot of the HUD as the lil RETICLE on the doomed Apollo pilot's cockpit, nobody would notice. Dead wrong, and now you guys are taking a SHORTCUT as canon. ROFL!
While you're at it, why don't you say that SHIP CONTROLS AND DETAIL OPTIONS are necessary to a Terran-Vasudan test of a shield generator in the OTHER cutscene...LOOK AT THE ICONS BELOW! LOOK AT THEM! These cutscene screenshots prove NOTHING!
Look closely above, you can see recognizable interface icons. That is NOT a coincidence.
And over here, we have proof that the GTA "used Microsoft fonts to designate enemy ships on their command briefings" (look at "taranis") --- i suppose now you're going to say THAT's canon too?
And finally...you're missing a real good one...
THAT AINT THAT FAR FROM HIS HEADI'm sick of the excuses for why it shouldn't be added, someone should add it anyway regardless. Starlancer has it, Freelancer has it, X2 has it, X1 had it, X-Wing had it, TIE-Fighter had it, X-Wing VS Tie Fighter had it, Red Faction 1/2 had it, EVEN DESCENT 1/2/3 HAD IT! Anyone who argues against 3D cockpits needs to seriously wake up to the fact that FreeSpace 2 is one of the few space sims out there that DOES NOT have a 3D cockpit.
As far as its usability is concerned, I call for a 3D cockpit with actual working readouts and none you cant actually use. Nothing peeves me more than a 3D cockpit with tons of useless buttons and readouts. Makes me feel like I'm flying a toy. As such, if someone wanted to model the Apollo's cockpit after the pic way above, I won't accept it unless they find a use for almost EVERY readout displayed on it and relegate the reticle in the center to what it is: A RETICLE. NOT A HUD. GET THAT THRU UR HEADS, the one in the cutscene is A TARGETING RETICLE, NOT THE HUD, no matter what we recognize it as.
Are there any disbelievers in 3D cockpits now who dare to use that stupid cockpit picture as "proof" against them?