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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => FS2 Open Coding - The Source Code Project (SCP) => Topic started by: Nuke on January 13, 2004, 04:57:10 am

Title: scanner eye candy
Post by: Nuke on January 13, 2004, 04:57:10 am: i think it would be cool, that when you scan something you get like a laser beam sweep of the object. the beam would be emmited from the sensors subsystem. it would look coolest if you had faned out lasers sweep over the object. you could have to of them, one sweeping horizontally, ther other verticly, kinda like the lines that cross the sensor display. it could be done graphicly by animating the scan rays in an ani file. the engine would strech it (like the way beam cannons do) from the subsystem to the object being scaned. if someone wants to impliment it id be willing to do the animations in photoshop.
Title: scanner eye candy
Post by: Black Wolf on January 13, 2004, 05:35:25 am: Personally, I'd rather not see this, primarily because ther most interesting and fun scanning missions occur in a captured or rebuilt hostile fighter. Shoot a big red laser over the ship your scanning, and I'm pretty sure it, or the other ships around it, would notice what you were doing. Plus the sensors subsystem is not always conveniently located in the front of a fighter, though I'll admit IIRC that is the general location for most.
Title: scanner eye candy
Post by: mikhael on January 13, 2004, 10:48:46 am: I'm all for eye candy, but I'd rather see something like a pulsing glow around the object being scanned, something that is obviously projected on the pilot's HUD.
Title: scanner eye candy
Post by: kasperl on January 13, 2004, 11:08:38 am: if you want this a couple of times for a special kind of scanner you could do this with a beam turret and a little SEXP'ng, i think.

still, read my siggy.
Title: scanner eye candy
Post by: Setekh on January 14, 2004, 04:35:17 am: Quote
Originally posted by mikhael
I'm all for eye candy, but I'd rather see something like a pulsing glow around the object being scanned, something that is obviously projected on the pilot's HUD.

Yes, ditto. I'm just imagining your first undercover mission with Snipes, when you're (supposedly covertly) scanning the Iceni... "oh, hey guys. How ya 'goin? I was just... y'know, scanning the command vessel, seein' what was goin' on..."
Title: scanner eye candy
Post by: karajorma on January 14, 2004, 01:36:52 pm: Don't mind me guys. I'm just trying to scan the womens shower block. Honest! :D
Title: scanner eye candy
Post by: Flipside on January 14, 2004, 01:46:09 pm: Setekh, you forgot the sound of 8 banks of Tornados locking on ;)
Title: scanner eye candy
Post by: Nico on January 17, 2004, 01:29:07 pm: Quote
Originally posted by mikhael
I'm all for eye candy, but I'd rather see something like a pulsing glow around the object being scanned, something that is obviously projected on the pilot's HUD.

That would rock.
Title: scanner eye candy
Post by: Johnmike on January 18, 2004, 11:51:02 am: Sounds like a good idea, as long as it's not too distracting. And maybe there could be a version of this for locking missles?