[Thaeris]

COOLEST IDEA EVAR:

Try building a cockpit mock up on top of the motion platform. Disable the HUD on the main projection. Put what might amount to a REAL head-up display in that cockpit model. That's enough to make you "jizz in your pants," is it not? 

Of course, doing that in itself would be a huge effort.

[QuantumDelta]

I think you may have missed the point Thaeris.


If you wall off the display and do separate renders for the side screens you should be ok for distortion actually, you can restrict the hud to one screen and just have space around the rest, it might look a bit weird though.

[Thaeris]

Good point.

However, having an operable cockpit module would be quite neat.

[Reprobator]

It won't looks weird if you add a new layered view in the field : the helmet view :

-Helmet view (and pof) which would follow all head movement (with track ir or anything else)
-Cockpit View (as it is right now implemented) which do not follow head movement actually (it would look weird if it did lol )
-Wild space (as ever) same as the cockpit view

Just add some torsion effect on the HUD and you'll have something really nice! even if the HUD is rendered only in the center screen.

a bit like in gr evolution for racing sim and the helmett sight in black shark.

like this : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIj1YmsrzDE for gtr evolution
and this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-elwVpPBv1c for black shark
well in the two case that's just a 2d bitmap.

[Stormkeeper]

... Let's not get too ahead. First, we just split the hud and display it on the three screens, tweaking till it looks pretty, then we do the helmet thing.

[Reprobator]

well in fact i think just having the possibility to manually set the hud resolution to stretch with in the launcher is first perfect step

[Cromfel]

... Let's not get too ahead. First, we just split the hud and display it on the three screens, tweaking till it looks pretty, then we do the helmet thing.

Agreed