[Taristin]

Originally posted by Drew
cobra, come back when you finnaly grow a dick

Oh... did yours finally sprout?

You can all atleast wait for him to reply before you jump on the 'bash Cobra' bandwagon... It's getting sickening when every thread of his turns into trolling and cobra-bashing.

[Cobra]

ahem. quit spamming this thread. actually, i took one out of the Herc cockpit. right now that's a template for me to build on. but that's the best i have. and those black lines are borderings i added. when i first saw the maps for the herc cockpit, i was hoping that there would actually be a rendered hud there. i learned the hard way, and 1 month later, this is my big idea.

[Nico]

Originally posted by aldo_14
I think it's just mirrored on the RHS.  Problem is that you need a 3d model for the cockpit to work ingame anyways; so I'm not sure how you could get the guages to overlay over that without a new model.

Well it's not really difficult to apply that to anything.

[Cobra]

Originally posted by BlazeME
And will there be a different cockpit for each fighter?

Afraid not. i don't have any other templates for cockpits.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Nico


Well it's not really difficult to apply that to anything.

Well, the problem is really in that you risk having to make a seperate HUD table (or whatever it's called) for each ship type, because of eyepoint differences.  Other possible issue is that you might have to take up half the screen to get enough cockpit room for it to show correctly; atmospheric but a bit obfuscating.

[Cobra]

update: this is what it's supposed to look like so far.



aldo, i might actually have to make a new tbl since I had to resize the gauges there.

[BlazeME]

The white and blue doesn't fit. Go for a more grey tone.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by BlazeME
The white and blue doesn't fit. Go for a more grey tone.

no.... I think that's indicating where he'll be overlaying the guages in-game.

[Night Hammer]

yeah if you leave the gauges the same color as they are in game that might not turn out too bad...good work:yes:

[Cobra]

i'm working on putting the gauges in different parts on this cockpit... stay tuned.

[Falcon]

*takes Cobra OFF the "people to kill" list*

Heh good job m8 continue at it and you will get there.

[WMCoolmon]

This looks pretty nice.

[MetalDestroyer]

Ahaha, nice Cobra.

[aldo_14]

NB: I'd suggest you resize that cockpit to be 1024*768; should be able to reuse the co-ordinate positions for gauges for it (in a tbl), provided you get the eyepoint setup ok.

[Flaser]

To clear things up:

Is this a pure 2D cockpit OR a cockpit study or a 3D cockpit with specific HUD overlay?

The last IMHO wouldn't be practical since what the cockpit could achieve would be reducing the stuff that has to be shown on the HUD and relocating a lot of stuff onto actual panels/indicators and/or gagues in the cockpit....

.....beside the ability to padlock enemies which will come handy when we finally desing ships that take more than G-s for Brains and/or add potent lateral thrusters (not to mention independent aim for weapons a 'la Mechwarrior 3).

[Cobra]

Originally posted by Flaser
To clear things up:

Is this a pure 2D cockpit OR a cockpit study or a 3D cockpit with specific HUD overlay?

for now, it's 2D. i don't know how to make the model yet.

The last IMHO wouldn't be practical since what the cockpit could achieve would be reducing the stuff that has to be shown on the HUD and relocating a lot of stuff onto actual panels/indicators and/or gagues in the cockpit.... [/B]

yeah, i kinda figured that out.

.....beside the ability to padlock enemies which will come handy when we finally desing ships that take more than G-s for Brains and/or add potent lateral thrusters (not to mention independent aim for weapons a 'la Mechwarrior 3).

huh? what do you mean?

right now i'm faced witha problem. there are too many hud gauges, and i'm trying to figure out where to put them. the relocating, someone help me with that?

[Turambar]

I'm just waiting for someone to make the hud work normal at 1280x1024, or 1280x960

I mean, its pretty at 1024x768 with 8xsAA, but it could be prettier with 1280x960 on 8xsAA.

i love my 6800GT

*goes off and plays Battle For Middle Earth and Half Life 2 at 8xS AA with acceptable performance*

oh, and MWAHAHAHAAHAHAHHAHAHAHA *thunder and lightning*

good work Cobra

[Grimloq]

god... what is with teh cobra bashing?  theres nothing wrong with him. and you dont even give him a chance to defend himself...


ahh, now the n00b-defending is done:

cobra, thats a nice cockpit, but it takes up too much space. make it more like just barely seeing it on the edges of the screen rather than having it just sitting there, D2-style.

and id appreciate it if you didnt move gauges around much... >_>

[Cobra]

actually, i just got a brainstorm. what I'm going to do is kind of build around the radar itself. what i'm planning right now is NOT going to work out.

[EDIT] Grimloq, you know what would have been a great advantage with the cockpit? it would have been a lot easier to monitor other fighter's shields without having to take your eyes off the battle.

[Rson]

I think you should make the cockpit a slightly lighter shade as it would be almost indistinguishable from space, except in a nebula.