[Fineus]

Mind linking to one?

I'm not about to tell you what to do. I know what I'd like them to look like - but as I'm not about to model them myself it's not my place to do anything but request. I would like to know what you had in mind though.

[WMCoolmon]

Actually, aldo, I think I have one from you already, somewhere on my HD. I saw it the last time I was doing some cleaning/reorganization.

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[aldo_14]

Mind linking to one?

I'm not about to tell you what to do. I know what I'd like them to look like - but as I'm not about to model them myself it's not my place to do anything but request. I would like to know what you had in mind though.

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(this kind of shows why it needs fixed to look better)
  (Pilot model needs replaced with higher poly, plus the tubes would be dropped for ingame)

What I'm saying, really, is that I'd probably do it more to show the possibilities rather than stick to straight FS design.   It wouldn't be massively authentic, but it'd hopefully show the way the tech can be used. 

Actually, aldo, I think I have one from you already, somewhere on my HD. I saw it the last time I was doing some cleaning/reorganization.

Yeah, that's one that needs a lot of work done to be honest..... there's a problem here in terms of the look-around view; I'd like to have a full cockpit (seeing yer legs and everything), but that has issues with regards to the externals of the ship in particular.

[Fineus]

That looks good really. It'd be nice if you could refer a bit to the images for general design purposes (that is to say - the pilots uniform, groups of buttons and control panels) should all look fairly similar and consistent. Overall though I think the design is very flexible as there is no canon reference.

[Taristin]

hmm, suddenly this looks less cool >..>;;

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[pecenipicek]

PLEASE, NOT THE GOLDEN WINDOWS!!!!

darken the window colour, make it a shade of blue or something, but NO MORE GOLD!!!

as if the erinyes wasnt enough...

[Taristin]

It can be any colour... I just grabbed the first glass tex I had extracted on my HDD..

And it was the Ares and the Pegesus that had them by default...

[FireCrack]

Erynies too though.

Basicly all the "Spec-ops" craft had golden windows.

[aldo_14]

That looks good really. It'd be nice if you could refer a bit to the images for general design purposes (that is to say - the pilots uniform, groups of buttons and control panels) should all look fairly similar and consistent. Overall though I think the design is very flexible as there is no canon reference.

Er... that's what I mean, though.  I was trying to branch as far from FS as possible; to be honest, pretty much everything I'm modelling nowadays is designed to be able to exist 'outside' being used for FS mods.  But for a proper FS reference I think it does make more sense to use the FS1 renders.

[Taristin]

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[aldo_14]

NB:  While we're showing off , this is the proper (completed) version of the earlier cockpit
http://www.sectorgame.com/aldo/media/cp_wyvern.jpg

[Taristin]

How can you see out that thing?

[aldo_14]

How can you see out that thing?

Fly-by-instruments, mainly.  It's not that bad, though; the eye levels tilted down to show the hud stuff here, anyways.

[pecenipicek]

much better raa

looks rather nice from inside too

[Unknown Target]

On the topic of making feasably high-poly cockpits: use detail boxes Just make a detail box for when you're really, really close, then detail it to hell. It'll only show up in cockpit view

(A good example of detail boxes was the Death Star trench run video from the Star Wars project)

[bfobar]

Raa:

On the myrmadon cockpit, how do you think it would look to move the pilot's head up to the upper window, put the hud and stuff on the upper crossbar, and fill the lowest window with stuff that looks like cameras and scanners? having his helmet in the upper window and farther forward would maybe give a little better visibility than the middle window? Just a thought since I can't model anything better than a box yet.

[Taristin]

Ehh. I'll put the scene up for download or something. The problem isn't the pilot position as much as it is that the window is really small on the Myrm.