[Droid803]

How does the GTF Pegasus pilot compare to those?

The concept of a physical body size probably doesn't apply to the transcendant.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Maybe Alpha 1 is Mario.

[X3N0-Life-Form]

Hmm, that would explain a few things, but what if s/he gets wounded mid-flight?

[DireWolf]

Probably keep a cache of shrooms in the cockpit.

Come to think of it, that probably explains a lot of FS2 vanilla AI behavior.

[Lester]

It's because the cockpit glass differs from fighter to fighter both in materials and thickness. What you're actually seeing is the magnification effect of the light being fractured.

[headdie]

No wonder the AI cant avoid the broad side of an Orion if the effect is that strong

[Woolie Wool]

and make sure they're 2 m tall

Why not 1.75m? 2m is really big, that's Darth Vader size.

[Kolgena]

Not really much to say apart that I hate cockpits anyway, and I would have much preferred if they would have been left black, like a polarized glass.

Find glass.dds in the Assets_3612\maps. Extract it and open it up. Make RGB pure black. Make alpha light grey, or white if you want it to actually be opaque. Tweak to your liking to emulate smoked glass. Fixes most models, but some of them use their own glass textures (herc 1, etc), so you have to hunt those down yourself in the VPs.

(FSPort by default gives black tinted glass as well)

[yuezhi]

But then how is Alpha 1 able to fly such a wide variety of ships during the FS2 main campaign?

how was he able to fly vasudan stuff?

giving royal treatment for terrans on exchange isn't new. bring on the XXL mega-cushioned stadium seats; third herc on your right under that red medusa.

[z64555]

It's specifically mentioned in FS2 that a number of Vasudan craft where modified so that Terrans could pilot them.

They probably just swapped out the seat and gave him more cupholders.

[yuezhi]

i knew that. i just forgot the exact quote

[Cyborg17]

They probably just swapped out the seat and gave him more cupholders.

But the Zods already had 7!!!

[z64555]

They probably just swapped out the seat and gave him more cupholders.

But the Zods already had 7!!!

The number of cupholders is never enough for a Terran! Moar Cupholders!

[yuezhi]

if your think about it, the future may take our cupholders and give us tubes instead for all kinds of reasons including more space for oversized terrans.

tentacles...

EDIT: wait a sec. there is no gravity to keep drinks in cups! water in space looks like bubbles so who needs cupholders or anything? all your stuff is floating around you, now that's service!

[BengalTiger]

The bubbles only float around when the ship is at 0 G, any maneuver and non secured objects will change their position relative to the ship and hit a wall/display/canopy/pilot.

The cup holders are needed, and they must prevent the cups from going in any direction- including upwards, same thing applies to the cups holding the drinks.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Use duct tape then. It solves everything.

[redsniper]

If you have soda in zero G, which way do the bubbles go?

[z64555]

If you have soda in zero G, which way do the bubbles go?

Ask the Russians, they had fun drinking fizzless champagne and passing it off as apple juice.

[Flipside]

I actually had to sit and think about that one for a minute...

My first thought was that they would stay still, but then I thought the reason bubbles rise is because they are less dense than the liquid they are in and are trying to move to a lower-pressure area, so I think that their behaviour would not change in that respect, they would move towards the opening of the glass, because of pressure. But if you held the glass upside down, they would still head towards the opening.

Problem is, then the thought occurred to me that if you tilt a glass of soda, the bubbles still go 'up' relative to the person holding it, not the glass, that might be related to the fact that the gas is less dense than the air outside the glass.

I still think they would head towards the exit, because it is the pressure of the fluid on them that causes them to move, they displace more than they weigh, but I'm not entirely certain of the details, they may even head in every direction, depending on which edge is closest...

[BengalTiger]

Bubbles moving towards the surface a matter of displacement, where bubbles displace less weight than water so they get pushed upwards.

Since there is weightlessness in space, the bubbles remain immobile.

Here's proof:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXsvy2tBJlU

Now if you want to get rid of the bubbles, perform a maneuver... Water will gain weight as a result of the G forces acting on the space ship, and the bubbles (which also gained weight, but much less) will get pushed upwards.
Anything that doesn't get pushed out will once again become stationary within the water when the space ship finishes the maneuver- the resistance of water will stop the bubbles quickly.

Edit: Here's bubbles in water being pushed "upwards":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxyfiBGCwhQ&feature=fvwrel