Cockpit Query

[lasserith]

If you've ever followed game development artwork is almost always the last thing fixed. Usually 'Good Enough' placeholders are made so that the rest of development (the story, the combat etc) can be worked on while the artists work on prettying up the placeholder assets until they hit release quality. For example look at the beta assets for DotA 2. Hero Icons are originally MS paint, original models might be un textured or roughly textured with just general colors. Later when the heroes are released these things are replaced with a higher res version.

TL,DR: Game isn't out yet don't nit pick too much.

[Killjaeden]

Hey all.I was just looking again at this vid again
http://youtu.be/dt4B4e3i5_0?t=45s
is it just me or does the cockpit look very cartoony?Seems like the graphics from borderlands 1 and 2.I would like to hear your comments on this matter.
Cheers

Why the hell did the youtube video stop playing and lead me to the Star Citizen Side? Very suspicious...........

[shea]

Hey all.I was just looking again at this vid again
http://youtu.be/dt4B4e3i5_0?t=45s
is it just me or does the cockpit look very cartoony?Seems like the graphics from borderlands 1 and 2.I would like to hear your comments on this matter.
Cheers

Why the hell did the youtube video stop playing and lead me to the Star Citizen Side? Very suspicious...........

Doesnt happen to me

[BarrenEarth]

Hey all.I was just looking again at this vid again
http://youtu.be/dt4B4e3i5_0?t=45s
is it just me or does the cockpit look very cartoony?Seems like the graphics from borderlands 1 and 2.I would like to hear your comments on this matter.
Cheers

Why the hell did the youtube video stop playing and lead me to the Star Citizen Side? Very suspicious...........

Doesnt happen to me

Me neither

[Fallent]

IMHO the Cockpit looks sexy. Realistic with a sprinkle of artistic touch.

[greypanther]

IMO it just reminds me of the X2 cockpit.
Poor. At least there was more than one cockpit in X2.

[Geek]

The cockpit is not cartoony in terms of graphical quality, but the design is deliberately kept simple, so the player can focus elsewhere.
Anyway a good cockpit is no cockpit

[Earth Ultimatum IV.]

I love the cockpit.

[Aragosnat]

Does not look cartoony. Certainly does look flat thou. I do realize it might need to be kept simple just so they can have place holders in. But, the fuzziness is just to the fact the game was not rezed in properly with their recording device. Othere then that. I hope there is a way to look past the cockpit. A.K.A. press my face up to the window and look up and down.

[Jawms]

Does not look cartoony. Certainly does look flat thou. I do realize it might need to be kept simple just so they can have place holders in. But, the fuzziness is just to the fact the game was not rezed in properly with their recording device. Othere then that. I hope there is a way to look past the cockpit. A.K.A. press my face up to the window and look up and down.

Thats a very interesting question.. What does happen when one chooses to look around in first person? Will you start looking around the cockpit? Or will you pan around the viewport and have to press a specific key to access the rest of your ship.. I play X3 with a joystick that has a view hat, (Very handy for navigating menus) and I use this hat to see enemies around me. With a cockpit, I can only see what is infront of the window, where in real life, you can move your head to get a better viewing angle. In XR that would take a bit of very ingenious control/animation work to get right.. Something exactly like you described it.. Want to look down? Your character leans foreward and makes a neat little nose print on the inside of the windshield as he looks down the window.

Hope for the best!!

Also for the OP:
http://www.egosoft.com/games/x_rebirth/ ... arity1.jpg
http://www.egosoft.com/games/x_rebirth/ ... ighway.jpg
Saw this while browsing today.. Looks pretty awesome to me?