[MOD] Shawn's Cockpit Mod v1.5 for X3TC feat. Weazel

[Bubbinska]

This looks great! I've often wondered how possible a cockpit mod would be with dynamic displays. I'm very much looking forward to further development of this concept. In particular, I'm wondering if it's possible to have unique cockpit designs for each individual ship? It'd be fantastic to have slightly different designs for each of the different races' ships.

I'll definitely give it a go when I reinstall for 2.1.

[starhawkprime]

This looks outstanding!!! Does anyone know of any tutorials on how to make and add custom cockpits. I have the drive to make cockpits but lack the knowledge.

[Bubbinska]

I just spent a few hours flying around in my M4 with this cockpit mod installed. IT IS AMAZING. I didn't expect such a big change in the "feel" of the game but it's a very large improvement IMO. I have a few questions and suggestions though.

- The little "video window" displayed in the cockpit stays there until another video window is shown or I change sector. Video window also includes the little holographic displays for products and whatnot.

- Some textures appear a little bit stretched and stuff, and displaying ship health in numeric form (rather than the bars) makes the cockpit displays of player and target health go into numeric mode too, and they're unreadable.

- Sometimes parts of the cockpit's textures flicker for me, particularly on the M4 Cockpit's speed display. This (i'm fairly sure) is caused by 2 3d planes being put in exactly the same place. I had this issue when I was making maps for Source engine games - If 2 objects have a face in exactly the same place, the texture flickers between the 2 objects' textures.

Other than these, it's a really amazing addition to the game, and IMO adds heaps of immersion value. I'm looking forward very much to the "Bridge Modul Manufacturing", and while I have no experience making mods for this game, I'd be willing to help with any aspect that I can. I suppose if you're looking for any kind of texture art, I can help in that area.

[-[e1337e.weazel]-]

Big thanks for your encouragements and informations about bugs or other flaws.

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I just updated the Capital Ship CP (M1,M2)
- Optmimized displays
- Animated textures are now self illuminated.
- Radar is visible again without to be light up.
- textur failures seems to be fixed.

An Update is coming in few days.

[xiriod]

This should definitely be part of the official mod patch, I hope you applied It's amazing. I tried it, but will wait to use it fully until I am finished writing my mod as it sometimes is better to have full view when doing so.

But really, 10 out of 10 on this one!

[halowse]

Good job! I cant wait to see this improve, it's already looking cool. Love the way the M6 looks, how it shakes when you push the throttle. Awesome.

Notes:

Textures pop in and out a lot for me, not the dynamic ones but the regular metal bits that make up the cockpit structure.

A lot of the dynamic textures are stretched out / low res in appearance for me (1920x1080).

No cockpits for my VIDAR or SCIMITARs


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[Khaak_Slayer]

Man i'm so excited about the Bridge Module mod, is there somewhere i can go to find more info on it? Google returns very few results

[-[e1337e.weazel]-]

Website is on work, please be patient

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Changes:
- add displays for weapons
- removed HUD elements that now shown in the CP displays (i will offer that optional)

I have still problems to add the animated textures, got CTD
i will testing whats wrong ...

[yospanky]

It's so amazing . This mod makes me feel the way Kobe felt winning the NBA 2009 Championship. Looking forward to the finished product. Great Job.

[Wesley Franken]

Let me download this immediately while drooling over those screenshots... can't wait to see the cockpit of my Panther & Tigers

EDIT: Hmm, this doesn't exactly look like I hoped:[...]

I see...

I'm afraid this depends on the dynamic displays. It is really very difficult to get these displays working. Obviously it will not work correctly. Well, I guess have to apologise. Maybe you can use the old Version 1.4 for the moment. It's without the dynamic displays, but also without these texture- and graphic-errors. Like I said, we are working on it. And again: I'm so sorry guys.

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Shame on me!
Shawn

The same with me, but nevertheless it is still great to see cockpits in TC.

Weazel, you kick *ss

[Bubbinska]

- removed HUD elements that now shown in the CP displays (i will offer that optional)

that's what I want to see! fantastic. I was worried for a while that based on my observation of the dynamic HUD it would require the HUD elements to be present anyway. I'm glad that's not the case.

[s9ilent]

I don't suppose you can put up a tutorial (or a link to somewhere) where I can learn how to make dynamic displays?

[-[e1337e.weazel]-]

- removed HUD elements that now shown in the CP displays (i will offer that optional)

that's what I want to see! fantastic. I was worried for a while that based on my observation of the dynamic HUD it would require the HUD elements to be present anyway. I'm glad that's not the case.

Remember that the displays in the CP have a poor quality in the fonts, for me its not important to read this informations, but someone will be annoyed of this, thats why i will offer this as a bonus mod.

I don't suppose you can put up a tutorial (or a link to somewhere) where I can learn how to make dynamic displays?

I suppose that you have experience in 3d max, than it´s very easy...
in "objects/effects/menugfx" you can find the objects for the HUD, pic up the materials and save it in your materiallibary. You will need to make screenshots from the HUD elements, because there doesn´t exist bitmaps from the used jpgs oder dds. you must make them yourself. you will need them to exactly fit the bitmaps on the faces. thats all, no black magic, no blood sacrifice, no mysticism thing, just poor 3d Voodoo

[s9ilent]

Ahhhh I seee

So I assume that each of your cockpit scenes, references either a objects\effects\menugfx (or some custom variant of it), or you just directly zap the same textures right onto your bodies

Awesome cakes I shall have fun experimenting

[-[e1337e.weazel]-]

and don´t forget the "abracadabra"

[razgrizpr]

Really nice mod, thanks! now I feel better flying the ships, one question, I'm trying to create my own, but I have some problems, any idea where can I get help or anyone in here that knows, if any, pm me, thanks! Great job again!

[homerdog]

Hi all.

I noticed some of the ship scene files have been updated in 2.1. Would running this as a mod override those updates? If so, will this mod be updated with the scene files from 2.1? It looks really cool but I don't want to miss out on the fixes in 2.1.

Thanks.

[Bubbinska]

- removed HUD elements that now shown in the CP displays (i will offer that optional)

that's what I want to see! fantastic. I was worried for a while that based on my observation of the dynamic HUD it would require the HUD elements to be present anyway. I'm glad that's not the case.

Remember that the displays in the CP have a poor quality in the fonts, for me its not important to read this informations, but someone will be annoyed of this, thats why i will offer this as a bonus mod.

I wonder if there's a way to modify the HUD as part of this mod, so the fonts are smoother? (ie. larger font size, downscaled so they don't look so blocky)

Regardless, that new screenshot is fantastic. As for the radar, I have an idea - what about a "holographic" display? Similar to those translucent screens you've got, make a very thin, nearly-invisible square coming up from the gravidar board, and display the dynamic info on that? I'm just guessing here since this is mostly beyond my understanding

*edit* an example image:
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[goblinissimus]

This mod's awesome. But I didn't see any CPs in terran ships (v.1.5) Are there any updates yet?

[Wesley Franken]

I've already asked him, he's working on it