Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 11:38 pm
No, it is.Grimloq wrote:well, think perseus. the camera would actually be thrust pretty far forward (as if the pilot was leaning) so in the perseus, since it has a semi-wraparound cockpit wouldnt be much different.
as for the myrmidon for example, it would again be 'leaning' forward, so the only thing annoying there would be the bars across the cockpit window.
same for hercules, (ursa would be tough), medusa, everything (cept shivan fighters. theres no evidence that they have windows in their cockpits, so they might do it all by computer or something...
well... maybe it is, i dunno.
Because the HUD is - or should be - directly within the eyesight of the pilot. My pilot model was done to conform to a properly rigged & scaled biped, and I found you actually need to have the pilot sitting really low to do this; which normally means a huge gap between their head and the cockpit.
The other thing, is that the HUD itself is hard to make transparent; it screws up the rendering order - or at least, I think it would - because that's hierarchy based.