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Juxtapose
Grand Admiral
Sundered Weimeriners
Joined: May 11, 2002
Posts: 1308
From: Give me your bullets!
|  Posted: 2003-10-16 14:17
Couldn't be easier...it's mostly a 2D world out there anyway...here is the set-up:
4 Screens The Upper Center is your forward Viewing arc, say about 120 degrees of view. The two flanking the center are your side views, each about 45 degrees of viewable arc. The fourth screen stretches across the entire bottom 1/4 of the screen and represents the rear 150 degrees.
All the HUD and other buttons would be found between the top three screens and between the forward/side views and the rear.
Since the forward viewing arc, broken between the three screens is 210, you would have to make it kinda curved looking...no problem.
Now, you could just have Keys you could jab at to switch between front, rear and side views, but I honestly think crashing into Naix because I'm staring at my Ion trail is a bad idea.
Might be a lot of information to process at once, but a cool option.
With this view, you could have two additional options:
1) Window to the glass view: Just what is infront, rear, next to your ship.
2) Standing on the bridge view: The top half of your Assault Dread stretches out before you, slightly obscuring the view of what is below you (which there isn't), but gives you a better perspective of the size of your ship vs others, and of distance travelled.
I'm excited...I will post an image of kinda what I mean (At work, so it will have to wait a few hours)
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Bobamelius
Grand Admiral
Galactic Navy
Joined: October 08, 2002
Posts: 2074
From: Ohio
| Posted: 2003-10-16 14:47
Hehe it might be cool but probably not very useful to gameplay.
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Thrie
Fleet Admiral
Raven Warriors
Joined: October 28, 2002
Posts: 760
| Posted: 2003-10-16 14:56
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On 2003-10-16 14:47, Bobamelius wrote:
Hehe it might be cool but probably not very useful to gameplay.
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What you say!? ~puts on Officer saucer on head and goes into First person view~ Forward Hooo!!!
[-[A]-]Thrie The Tiger J {IMC} has been destroyed by Exathra!
Exathra has been captured by UGTO: PB!
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Axianda The Royal
Fleet Admiral
Terra Squadron
Joined: November 20, 2001
Posts: 4273
From: Axianda
| Posted: 2003-10-16 15:20
LOL hate to be in a destroyer and suddenly see a Kluth dread De cloak in front of ya while comming at ya at full speed  that just an instant hart attack 
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Gideon
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Joined: September 14, 2001
Posts: 4604
From: Oregon, USA
| Posted: 2003-10-16 15:28
We do plan on an internal from the birdge view, some day.
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Joined: August 15, 2002
Posts: 302
From: New Orleans,Louisiana
| Posted: 2003-10-16 16:43
Someday......10 years later still the same................1mil years later.
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Fattierob
Vice Admiral
Joined: April 25, 2003
Posts: 4059
| Posted: 2003-10-16 17:06
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On 2003-10-16 15:28, Gideon wrote:
We do plan on an internal from the birdge view, some day.
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YEAH! AWESOME...
really can't wait to see how bridges look! =D
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