[Nuke]

i hope your refering to the new starbuck

and padlock mode as well as hat switch pan are very good ideas

[WMCoolmon]

It shouldn't be very glitchy. The problem is that the near draw distance was set to a distance of 1.0 - the new builds set the near draw distance to 0.05 for cockpit view, then switch back to normal for everything else.

Padlock view is already implemented, but mapped to the joystick knob thingy by default. You can change that to keypresses in the Misc control options screen.

[aldo_14]

I did manage to try it after all; seems to work perfectly.

[Cobra]

well, i guess my cockpit idea is out.

[Deepblue]

Sorry Cobra, but the future beckons...

[Flaser]

Don't trash it yet - a good cockpit design, even a scetch can be worth a lot if you put good thought into it.

[Cobra]

maybe...

[Nico]

Originally posted by WMCoolmon
It shouldn't be very glitchy. The problem is that the near draw distance was set to a distance of 1.0 - the new builds set the near draw distance to 0.05 for cockpit view, then switch back to normal for everything else.

Padlock view is already implemented, but mapped to the joystick knob thingy by default. You can change that to keypresses in the Misc control options screen.

It's not glitchy at all, you just need to think the pilot model cleverly, which can be quite a pain actually ( mine wasn't planed that way, and I have to admit it shows, so you'll have the pilot still cut by the close clipping, can't help it unless I redo the pilots head ).

What you have in Freespace is not padlock, it's free view ( holding the "0" numpad key and moving around ). Padlock centers the currently targeted ship and tracks it. That is one of those features I think are a must have.

edit: actually, there's one little glitch, but it's because of the way my cockpit is done: the HUD uses a transparent map, and beams and explosions won't show through it. It's not really annoying, but it's worth mentioning I think.

[WMCoolmon]

Oh, yeah, that sounds pretty easy to do.

As I read your last post I started to wonder... would it be possible to make the pilot part of the damage LOD, so he'd drift around in space after the ship got blown up?

[Cobra]

hey, coolmon, i tried that build. WHERE IS THE FRAKKIN' COCKPIT?

[Nico]

Originally posted by WMCoolmon
Oh, yeah, that sounds pretty easy to do.

As I read your last post I started to wonder... would it be possible to make the pilot part of the damage LOD, so he'd drift around in space after the ship got blown up?

dead pilots? But I've already done that on one of my ships, don't remember which one tho, but one of the debris is a dead pilot

edit: I did that on the ezechiel I think.

[WMCoolmon]

Cobra: make sure that "show ship" is specified in the flags list in ships.tbl so that the cockpit is turned on.

Note that there are only a few ships with modelled cockpits, the rest you'll probably get general weirdness with.

[Cobra]

oh... include a readme why don't ya

[Nuke]

what about ppm support? you could probibly use bob's weapon model code, and render the pilot at the location of the eyepoint (thus would need to be the object center of the pilot model). this allows you to easily replace a terran pilot with a vasudan one. also in multiplayer people could make custom ppms sorta like in quake 2/3.

[WMCoolmon]

PPM?

[Cobra]

Pentium Processor Machine?

[Bobboau]

'personal player models' would be my guess.

[Flaser]

We don't have true freelook yet - you should be able to look around and look behind your back through your shoulder.

[StratComm]

The problem is, personal models are pretty much mutually exclusive with a true free-look.  If you can look down without restriction, it becomes all to easy to look through your own neck.  Ideally free-look would be restricted to the cockpit glass (roughly) so that it wouldn't be possible to actually look at the pilot model or the seat.

[Flaser]

Uhm...most sensible designs would put a lot of gagues and panels around the pilot, so the model should be built so the legs look nice from the inside too - or cover them up somehow.