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General FreeSpace => FreeSpace Discussion => Topic started by: Titan on February 11, 2008, 09:48:13 am

Title: How do you turn on cockpit views?
Post by: Titan on February 11, 2008, 09:48:13 am

i forget how you turn them on. or do you just have to find a ship that has it, and it'll automatically have the cockpit?

Title: Re: How do you turn on cockpit views?
Post by: Jeff Vader on February 11, 2008, 09:54:58 am

Quote from: Titan on February 11, 2008, 09:48:13 am

do you just have to find a ship that has it, and it'll automatically have the cockpit?

Yes. Also, you need to have a proper flag for it in the $Flags section of the ship's table entry. I think the flag was cockpit, unsurprisingly.

Title: Re: How do you turn on cockpit views?
Post by: Dysko on February 11, 2008, 10:25:26 am

Exactly, but the correct flag is "show ship" (look here (http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Ships.tbl#.22show_ship.22)).

The best way to add cockpits is to make a cockpit-shp.tbm modular table which adds that flag for every "cockpitted" ship. However, I remember reading somewhere that the point of view is offset in many ships, and I don't remember where is the link to a tutorial to fix that problem.

Title: Re: How do you turn on cockpit views?
Post by: Jeff Vader on February 11, 2008, 10:28:16 am

Ah, my mistake. I've only encountered it once and even then I removed it since it had lurked into the Athena I was hosting and a newcomer was panicing since he didn't know how to turn it off. Hell, even I didn't know how to turn it off back then.