[Nico]

Looky, shoots from the inside of the GTFX Vampire:






Now if the close cliping wasn't that close and wouldn't eat half the ship, it would be perfect.

Side note: there's my Heaphastus station, which, btw, is my proof that even large objects look much better w/o crappy tiled maps
Oups, forgot credits:
Hephaestus: the maps are mine, but the ( great ) model is from Styxx.

[Unknown Target]

Wow, neato station---bit small tho

And the cockpit looks great...perhaps you should move the ship down lower, and definately erase the HUD markings on the, uh, HUD, lol

[Sigma957]

Lookin cool and once the clipping issues are sorted out, should be awesome.

[Nico]

Well, the station, as it is, is ten times too LARGE
I'm very far way from it, it should be smaller than an Orion, but it's actually MUCH bigger than a colossus there...
About the HUD: well, the original idea of the cockpit was, strangely enough, not to have a cockpit view
I'll make better maps for it if that code is improved, but it definitively has a lot of potential - I don't give a damn about people who don't like cocpkits, I love them -.
If so, i'll also remove all that green that makes the actual HUD quite hard to see.
I'll try it with low ambient lighting, it should be cool, with the self ilu maps and stuff.

[Unknown Target]

Ze legs are ze sexy.

[Swamp_Thing]

3D cockpits won´t work. Why not just add a 2D cockpit layer behind the HUD? That would get rid of any clipping effects, and would be much more resource effective.

[Nico]

And wouldn't allow padlock and therefore would suck.
And resources? It's just one more ship to render, makes no difference with playing in 3rd person view.
If you ask me, if I forget about clipping, it works very well already.

Now we just need the coders to add something so the view follows the targeted object, and I will never play w/o it again.

[Unknown Target]

ZE LEGZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ZERE ARE ZE LEGZ!!!!!!!!!


And 2D cockpits suck. They're blatantly, what's the word? Atrotious? Not even flight sims use true-2D cockpits anymore (probably with the exception of the Flight Simulator series). LOMAC at least uses a hybrid.

[NGTM-1R]

Of course, the HUD is friggin' impossible to see...

[Nico]

Originally posted by Nico
... if that code is improved... i'll also remove all that green that makes the actual HUD quite hard to see.

thanks you for reading posts.

[NGTM-1R]

Perhaps you're confused. The only HUD I see is very, very tiny and too far forward to see. The green isn't the problem, unless of course you've managed to hide another in there very throughly...or my monitor settings are screwed up...

[Nico]

Ah, ok, the HUD on the map would not stay, and the normal HUD shows on the first and last pics, not the others coz I was using the key to look around, and when you do, the HUD vanishes and there's just that big red dot instead.

[Rictor]

I love the concept, and I'm glad that its finally working, but since the cockpit is always visible, should it have ultra detailed textures? These look OK for a ship, but for something thats so in your face, I'm thinking that something better is needed to match the quality on the rest of the SCP.

What would be even better is a custom-made cockpit to match the actual HUD view, so that each little "thing" (radar, enemy ship info) etc would fit neatly into a display panel.

Just my $0.02

[Ypoknons]

Darksaber pretty much did what you said last in the XWAU TIE cockpits, and it worked out pretty well - but then again, it was a chore (considering some of the complications about resolutions) and I'm not sure what the actual benefits were except for a little more immersion.

[Anaz]

120 fps?! woah!

Also: that station looks pure awesome...very anime-ish for some reason...but not at the same time...

[MetalDestroyer]

Interesting and the station looks awesome !!

[Nico]

Originally posted by Anaz
120 fps?! woah!

Also: that station looks pure awesome...very anime-ish for some reason...but not at the same time...

I forgot to set the ambient light ( for some reason, my launcher never keeps the flags, I have to re-enter them every time I launch it )

[Flaser]

What kind of map did you use for the station? (Cell shading??)

It is very similar to the Homeworld concept imgaes, and that's one of the looks I love.
I doesn't blend too well with FS though, but it's still nice.

[Nico]

nah, no cell shading, it's a normal map w/o ambient light, that's all there is to it.

[Anaz]

homeworld concepts! that's why it looked familiar...