[Knight Templar]

Ok, I was thinking today about fighter modelling. One thing that struck me, is that if you make an uber cool player flyable fighter, besides the techroom, Shield ani, and jump sequnce, unless you fly 3rd person, you never even get to see your ship. And flying 3rd person as it is rather sucks without even cross hairs, or hud or messages or anything.

So, what I propose is a sort of set up like Freelancer has, where you can have 3rd person, but still have all of the relavant hud options, and see a good portion of battle still.

Takers?

[Stryke 9]

Bleah.

[Kamikaze]

sounds like a good idea, make sure the cameras angled so that you can actually see where the crosshairs pointing. (i.e. make the camera just slightly above the ship)

[Knight Templar]

Originally posted by Stryke 9
Bleah.

Wouldn't it be cool to actually get chance to have a look ath that perseus you're flying? or the 1337 pegasus or whatever cool model you are flying? There doesn't seem to be a lot of incentive to make a ship look nice if you don't even get to see it.

[Petrarch of the VBB]

But if you had all the gauges everywhere, you'd hardly see your ship!

[Knight Templar]

make em' smaller/get rid of some/rearange them?

[Petrarch of the VBB]

hmm. 'spose you could manage with just the crosshair and targeting box, and maybe the power management gauges.

[KARMA]

you will probably need trails like in the nebula to maintain orientation+ it isn't so easy to aim from 3dperson due to the view angle, even if you have the reticle

[Steel]

my opinion...  3rd person is not at all realistic.  good to see if you are flying in formation, to look at your pretty ship, etc. but for combat - i would never use it.  plus there are realism purists who will say people are cheating when using 3rd person views (happens all the time in IL2) because they get extra views that one does not normally get from in the cockpit.  BUT, we do have radar, so...  it just does not have the same feel as a combat simulator if this stuff gets thrown in.  at least make it optional.

[NecroBob]

3rd person with a transparent model (so you could see what you were doing) would be alright, I suppose, but I would just prefer to see the new ship models as I take them out with two Harpoons

Bob

[Stryke 9]

KT: That's what the ramming school of combat is for. True, it's not your own ship, but who wants to see that when they can get up close and personal to a Mara?

Don't you eventually find that kinda distracting, though? Seems like it would annoy the holy living **** out of me soon as the novelty wore off...

[Knight Templar]

no actually, I'd like to see my pretty ship, wether i'm in battle not. I don't really care, but I'd like to be able to see my ship at some angle while having all the essential gauges I need to fly.


And if you don't like it or are a 'realist' then just press ' - ' or whatever buttonI just want to be able to see the cool ships
Freespace would be a lot better visually IMO if we had something like this.

pwetty pwease?

[Grey Wolf]

Maybe have it set up like in I-War 2?

[Corsair114]

I like this idea. I'm more comfortable flying out side my ship in thrid person view since it gives me a better sense of the space around me. If the view were zoomed out a bit then the gauges shouldn't be problematic.

[Galemp]

This should be very simple; I mean, just activate all the HUD gagues in 3rd person view. How hard can it be?

[Solatar]

Not very.

[diamondgeezer]

Forget it. I asked for this months ago. The coders refused to touch it with a barge pole.

[Knight Templar]

Nope. Not gonna forget. I want to see my ships.

[TrashMan]

You might have to bump this thread for that........

[Knight Templar]

you sound skeptical... you do know who I am, right?