[kasperl]

ah.

one day, when i have money, and space.......

[mikhael]

Yeah, tell me about it.

I'm planning out a full enclosure based on the pods Virtual Worlds used for Battletech, albeit with a few more aircraft specific controls, a center mounted fold away stick, a second side mounted stick, and a better sound system.

Not that I'm a freak or anything.

[kasperl]

what kind of display system?

some dude actually asked the SCP team for output to some other system so he could put the ammo numbers on LED display's in a total cockpit while the view was projected with a beamer like thingy.

[mikhael]

That shouldn't be that difficult. For one way output, just dump the raw data straight to a serial port. Let the user build a device that groks the serial stream and displays it as he wants. Hell, it might be worth poking into to see if I can make the engine do it.

Actually, it would be kinda cool to have the entire telemetry for your craft dumped on a COM or USB port for a custom end-user device to munge into a display.

[kasperl]

that would be rather neat.

/me is thinking up idea's to make all that work

i could always do it in school next year, as a project for my comp classes or something......

[mikhael]

I just talked about this with some professional programmers I know. They were concerned about the idea of using a COM port (those are, like, so retro), but there's plenty of cheap commercial LCD and LED display matrices for sale that have custom Windows drivers and simple APIs. Dumping telemetry (ammo, position, distance to target, hull/shield strengths, etc) should be drop dead easy.

[Setekh]

So, where's the blow-up-the-world button?

[Gortef]

right under his desk?

[mikhael]

Originally posted by Setekh
So, where's the blow-up-the-world button?

Its very hard to hit:

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DEF X1 TG1*
DEF X2 S1*
DEF X3 S2*
DEF X4 S4*
DEF X5 X1 AND X2 AND X3 AND X4

DEF X6 T1*
DEF X7 T2*
DEF X8 T9*
DEF X9 X6 AND X7 AND X8

DEF X10 X9 AND X5

BTN X10 Blow_Up_World

As you can see, I have to activate the trigger, the side car button, the thumb button AND the pickle. THEN you have to hit the uncage button, pull the speedbrake and hit the microswitch toggle.

If you do everything exactly right, you'll activate Blow_Up_World. After all, you REALLY don't want just anyone accidentally hitting that switch!