Thought I'd post this up in case it gives any inspiration to start playing around with new weapon gunspec and lua commands, or you have any suggestions about how to improve.

All of the entities are placeholders and I know the texturing needs to be redone, more animation etc, but I'm just using these assets to illustrate a weapon HUD (both main and alt) as a way of achieving third person and first person vehicles (switching views using 'v' key). Not perfect by a long way yet, but possibly shows there is some merit in pursuing it?

Anyway, see what you think.

Cheers.

wow, very cool man!

Excellent work .... Reminds me of Wings on the Amiga

Wow that is awesome! I wish I had the slightest idea how to do that, but LUA baffles me and HUDS are just like on a different level of existence to me lol

That's Pretty cool cybernescence.

I just thought of this while watching the video.
If you removed the image of the plane in the non zoomed mode of the hud (if that's how you have done it) and used that image as a sprite overlay instead.
When you press A or D you could simply rotate the sprite left and right at the same time to simulate the plane banking left and right.

Cheers

Truly awesome

wow, that is awesome..... really cool
great job

harry

Way cool! Great job!

Excellent work, very impressive.

SC

Speechless.

Well done! cybernescence.

3com

Thanks guys

Has a long way to go to be practically useful methinks, but just experimenting.

@perelect


There are no images being used, the model you see on approach and take-off is the same one that is also copied and used in the weapon HUD.x and the mouselook is controlling flight direction. The views are created by attaching the 'weapon' with lua to the player, thereafter the normal view is the main weapon view and the 'alt' (pressing the weapon 'v' key) moves the HUD forward.

I can see that the video looks like it is an image/sprite and it would actually be easier to do it this way for that effect.

What would be nice would be if the TransportToIfUsed command (or an equivalent) would place the player/cam at the same attitude as the target entity at the end of the transport (or a command that moves the player/cam to an x,y,x position at an angelx, angely,anglez). TransportToIfUsed used to orientate the player to the y angle a few versions ago, but has since stopped doing this - which makes it a bit odd for even simple portal type transports as the new player position y outlook is the same as when the start transport occurs (so could be facing a wall or whatever once transported). Anyway with an upgraded command, realistic banking, climbing, diving etc could be coded in and this HUD approach for a flying vehicle could be a viable option. Also mouse clicks are available outwith the ActivateMouse lua context, but mouse movement isn't - so to really use the mouse to control flying would need to get access to that data too.

All of this type of thing is why I'm wholeheartedly with the idea of being able to get more of the engine exposed via lua, because we could build this stuff for ourselves and share etc.

Cheers.

Great work I enjoyed the video. One thing that might be nice is to have the joystick move with the mouse control. I did a lot of work on aircraft for flight sim 98 and up. I used FSDS. Again great work.

Dennis_W

Great achievement, cybernescence.
Just one suggestion: the propeller is looking very unrealistic now, for, sometimes, it seems to be rotating at 10 rpm only which clearly is not enough. If you would apply a semi-transparent texture to the propeller, I guess that would compensate for this effect, because that is the way the human eye perceives a propeller at full speed.
Just my 2 cents

just saw this, very well done Cybernescence great job!!

This is one of the most impressive things I have seen someone do with Game Guru, wow, seriously have a beer

Great work.

Awesome stuff, and I've not even added camera commands to LUA yet Amazing!