Righto, I'd appreciate a download mirror from someone, hosting custom cockpits is not what my ISP intended my tiny piece of free webspace to be for...

Awesome cockpit Carwash. For the target object and sphere on the target MFD, I will be updating the game to dynamically adjust the position of the sphere and object so that is stays centered on the right side of that display. This cockpit gives me a good test platform to fine tune that. As for the display movement, Accountant's advice should work. The zdepth just needs to be adjusted to match the rotational movement. Also, since EL lets you control the depth of the gauges, that can also give you some fune tuning options, but the z distance for the cockpit will make the biggest different. Might involve scaling the display frames a bit to match the changed distance, but it would likely be a lot easier to just increase the scale of the entire front structure as you move it out so that there's no perceptable change in shape/scaling.

[Edited on 3-5-2009 by Vice]

Hi Carwash....Just tested your cockpit 2 version from a non-tracker point of view. It is really Awesome and really gives me a fantastic view while giving me the feeling of still being in a cockpit....I did notice some things that distracted me while flying the cockpit and have included the following photo with some things that I would like to see different.....and in case the writing does not appear on this size photo let me just say that I feel the light blue on the Rear ring could be removed and the lower texture continued all the way around, and the light blue around the screen frames could be removed and replaced with a darker color/texture and the same with the white outline around the instrument on the panel, either replace with darker color/texture or none.....Excellent work though and if you can make the white outline in the Stealth mode more transparent that would be Great.

Oh, as another recommended step, when you save the textures in smaller sizes, use a 1:1 ratio format. That will allow the graphics engine to render them with alpha blending, smoothing them out a bit and helping to reduce the pixel popping crawling. Some examples of supported texture resolutions are:

32X32
128X128
256X256
512X512
1024X1024

Hi Carwash....here is a picture while in Stealth mode, Anyway to make the white more transparent?



Thanks again for your hard work on the Mod

Thanks for the feedback guys.

@Braveheart, it's odd that you're getting screen misalignment. On my screen it's all fine unless you're making extreme moves and even then it only 'pops out' a little bit. I think this may have something to do with aspect ratio as your screens look to be more widescreen than mine, Vice could this affect gauge placement?

As for the stealth mode whiteness I'd never even considered this. I don't know what to change to make them more transparent. Vice?

Also, what's zdepth? I'm a total noob when it comes to 3d modelling.

[Edited on 3-5-2009 by Carwash]

Culled?? See above statement on newbishness.

Culled just means rendering only the visible side. If your model is set to render both sides of a surface, it double-renders the surface/face for two sides, doubling the results of transparency and rendering more surfaces than needed. Non-culled surfaces could produce solid white like that when transparent. In your 3D editor, just check to make sure only the visible side of each face is rendered.

[Edited on 3-5-2009 by Vice]

Yup, hard right turn it is....should have mentioned that your right Carwash any hard turn will do it and I do have widescreen. For being a newbie at this you are doing great work....one of these days I will have to learn how to mod myself in the meantime I will have to look and be impressed on how well all of you do your modding.....Great Work Carwash keep it up

aaand Zdepth?

Distance. In short, just moving it forward or backward from the perspective of the camera. If you move the front structures ahead a bit, then increase their scale so the display structures appear to remain in the same placement (even though they've been moved forward), it may help line up the gauges with the display structures better so when the player makes sharp turns, the movement is closer to the movement of the gauges themselves.

gotcha, ta!

I've mirrored the file for you, feel free to update your original post with this download location if you'd like:

http://www.spaceman.ca/evochron/carwash/hud.zip

Ta! BTW an updated version is on the way. Hopefully I've fixed the Zdepth issues (screens moving outside frames) but so far I'm stumped by the culling (white stuff in Stealth). I see nothing in the sketchup model that stands out as 'doubled up'. I'm happy to distribute the sketchup model directly if there's a demand fo it so people can mod the mod as it were...

'Steel Horse' WIP video

VIDEO

GOt the Zdepth nailed now too so the screens are rock solid inside the frames.

Cool!

Yer I like this one

The lighting I used here in Sketchup made me think about self-shadowing in EL. Any chance we'll see this in future updates? The 'Dark Lights' wossname let's you do it doesn't it?
http://darkbasicpro.thegamecreators.com/?f=dark_lights

That is pretty Awesome Carwash...it will be great to see the final product

I just saw it today (how did I miss?), carwash, this machine is awesome.!!!

Carwash, downloaded and use your Industrial 0.2 cockpit. Like the style for the openness and feel. Is it possible to remove the blue lighting overhead and from around the instrument panels as was suggested previously. If not could, you tell me what you used to model it and if possible what free tools I could use to remove it myself. I am somewhat familiar with the GIMP. In fact, would it be possible to get my hands on your Carwash cockpit 0.1 discussed in another forum post.

The motorcycle cockpit is hilarious. I want that!

@ Krellon - I used Sketchup and the file is available in this (excellently named) thread.

http://www.starwraith.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=4433

The blue lights have been changed for the next release but feel free to make your own varients based on this skp file.

The 'Steel Horse' bike pit is coming, Sorry, I got distracted doing this: http://www.starwraith.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=4110



[Edited on 3-16-2009 by Carwash]

I just wanted to mention that I'm having a lot of fun with this cockpit lately (carwash industrial 2.0). I really appreciate being able to see down a bit more from where I'm sitting when I'm mining or landing on a planet. It's a different feel from the default cockpit, but I can totally appreciate both

Some WIP shots of components. I plan to release a whole suite of stuff, one new component for each current component/frame in the game.

If I have enough stamina I also plan to do a cockpit to match each frame which can then make use of the new 'cockpit-per-frame' feature in EL.

Wish me luck... (or better yet, help.)

Bear in mind NONE of the components or frames are finished.

Disaster. A harddrive clusterfudge has resulted in the loss of most of the above. The bike bit is dead. The components are gone. Game over man, game over...

The only survivors are the stuff I'd already uploaded, I.E what you can download from links already up. All the root files they derive from are gone. I can probably import the .x files from those so it's not a TOTAL loss, but i'm gutted about the bike pit and the components... they were coming along well.

Let this be a lesson. Back your stuff up...

Sory to hear Carwash!

yeah , bummer man, that was looking like a great mod pack

I just found this mod the other day and was really impressed with it. The design is very cool and the high resolution textures look fantastic. The only thing I was bothered by was the way the screens float around as many have mentioned before. All of the other cockpit mods I've tried have the screens locked onto a 3D position so they stay attached to whatever backing the cockpit has them projected on. Was this mod ever corrected to fix those screens and stop them from floating outside the borders? How difficult would it be to make that happen?