[Stryke 9]

I'm about halfway through my Rendering Cockpit project, and rapidly running out of ideas. Lighting, color, and distortion by the glass aside, what's missing here?

 

Eventually I hope to have it as detailed as the   one...

[Shrike]

Um, a working picture?

[Carl]

 that's funny, cause i see a color, and it's red.

[Shrike]

Nope, I'm just getting a 404 on the image.

[NeoHunter]

Same here. Maybe he can just email the picture to all of us.

Get the link working man.

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[Setekh]

 

Originally posted by Shrike:
Um, a working picture?

[Stryke 9]

Hmmmm.... works fine on my side. I'll look into it, probably another prob with my DAMN SERVER!!!!!

*sigh* What next, what next?

[Nico]

lol, I have the same chair in my room =D

[Stryke 9]

Ditto. I got lazy in some parts- but at least with the chair I removed the legs and added something tougher looking.

[Fozzy]

joy stick and rudder pedals

[DragonClaw]

  I can think of 3 things it needs off the hat. It needs:

1. A bunch of safety belts(hey you ARE pulling Gs out there)
2. More electronic equipment(ever seen the inside of military cockpit? Well, there's a lot, and imagine how much electronic equipment would be in a space fighter! The shuttle is bad enough!)
3. The chair needs to be "build in", get rid of the legs, make the part where you lean on go back further. Ahh, in fact, redo the entire chair, it doesn't fit at all. take a look at military fighters.

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[Fozzy]

edjector seat

[Nico]

want to see how a cockpit looks like in freespace?

 

there's many others pics of the cockpit there:
 http://www.descent-freespace.com/goodies/gallery/cockpit/



[This message has been edited by venom2506 (edited 10-07-2001).]

[wEvil]

I would havce imagined by the 23rd century they would have gotten more simple instrumentation designs and controls.

and some ****  just stole my car.  I hope they choke on their own vomit.




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[Nico]

 

Originally posted by wEvil:
I would havce imagined by the 23rd century they would have gotten more simple instrumentation designs and controls.

and some ****  just stole my car.  I hope they choke on their own vomit.

seeing how things are going, I think there won't be pilots in the 23rd century fighters.

[Setekh]

Ah, I see it. Not bad. Speaking of pilots in fighters... stuff fighters. Gimme cruise missiles. Tomahawks 0wn j00, suckas!  

wEvil: Damn man. I'm sorry that happened   Good luck finding it, or getting a new car. :/

[NeoHunter]

In that cockpit picture of from FreeSpace that Venom posted, I must note something.

Notice the HUD? Well, its ON the dashboard or what ever you call that where all the instruments are. Anyway, in game, our view is totally the occupied by the whole HUD.

Here's the ten million dollar question. Does Alpha One fly with his face stuck to the HUD glass?

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Originally posted by NeoHunter:
In that cockpit picture of from FreeSpace that Venom posted, I must note something.

Notice the HUD? Well, its ON the dashboard or what ever you call that where all the instruments are. Anyway, in game, our view is totally the occupied by the whole HUD.

Here's the ten million dollar question. Does Alpha One fly with his face stuck to the HUD glass?

See the 2  '|-|' shaped things to the laft and right of the HUD?  He holds onto those    

[Eishtmo]

You know, there are commands to look around out various points in the cockpit, if I remember correctly.  It just goes to show you how well designed the HUD is that you only need to look out it to get everything you need.

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[Stryke 9]

 

Originally posted by Eishtmo:
You know, there are commands to look around out various points in the cockpit, if I remember correctly.

You're thinking Falcon series, where they have the controls on all sides and you have to turn and look at them. But it's made to compress the screen, a lot of that (like the comm, which is currently at the bottom and needs to be moved in mine) is just NOT going to be on the HUD because that would restrict vision. The view you get in FreeSpace is not ony bigger than that little HUD, it's bigger than your fighter.