[Deepblue]

Finished yet?

[Deepblue]

*bump* You got your the cockpits. Was Bob right?

[StratComm]

Woah, hold off there.  Give Phreak a chance to play with it for a bit.

[phreak]

its like 1500 words +- 150.  im at about 900.  i should be done tonight, if not i have to email it to my prof my midnight saturday.

about cockpit rendering, it should be rather simple (famous last words).  and i only know how to do it in opengl.  i can probably post something in the internal to have bob or someone work on it.

[Deepblue]

Please get someone to do it in D3D! Thanks for trying to tackle this at all.

[Bobboau]

this isn't something that should be resticted by API implementations.

[phreak]

i need the stencil buffer stuff.

[Bobboau]

realy!?

[phreak]

yea. it'll prevent ships from appearing through the struts.

[Bobboau]

why not just render it after everything else?

[phreak]

if the cockpit is big enough, then there may be a very close ship rendering through a strut of some sort, it shouldn't occur that often however.

[Bobboau]

well if your going to add stencil buffer stuff make it generaic as posable.

[IPAndrews]

Are you guys tying the hud instrumentation to the cockpit model through named textures on the cockpit mesh? Or will the hud instrumentation hover in space?

[aldo_14]

Can't you force it to render in a z-buffer layer on 'top' of everything else, i.e. sandwiched between the layer of the hud and the actual layer that represents the ingame 'scene'?

[Bobboau]

personaly I'd have just cleared the Z buffer _IF_ it became an issue.

[phreak]

since the cockpit is being rendering after all other models and explosions and stuff, clearing the zbuffer should cause many problems.

[Deepblue]

*Bump*
Any work done on this yet? Or is it just being done behind closed doors.

[Deepblue]

I geuss this means it's being done behind closed doors.

[Lynx]

Any news on this? Do you still need a test cockpit?

[vyper]

Yargh.