pretty well concept, i would take it but not without a turnindicator that helps to configure the stick and is abselutly necessary for mouseflight!
Any suggestions on how to do this in a way that doesn't get in the way?
maybe u could add also some small icons for ecm on/off, jump and dock
I was only thinking about the center of the HUD here. I think these indicators are not important enough to be put in the center and should rather go somewhere to the head down instrumentation.
for guns with autoaim ability we need some kind of seeker, similar to the missilelockseeker, that trys to catch the ponit of deah, both point of death and autoaim schould only be aviable if a itts capable scanner is installed.
For autoaim the point of death should become a circle of death indicating the degree of freedom the weapons provide. If autoaimed weapons aim slowly enough a seeker like reticle would make sense, yes.
by the way 'targeting systems' could be new class of equipment that work aside the radar by using its data to get missilelocks, the point of death and operate autoaiming guns, each in a more or less efficient way ...
for the weapons i miss some kind of grouping ability and firemodes like chain, groupchain, fire current selected weapon etc. (mechwarrior 2 and 3 was superb in this matter) plusnb weapons schould turn into a darker color when the target is out of range for them.
Such features would be desireable. Personally I miss something similar to TIE Fighter's way of cross linking weapons:
1. fire just one weapon at a time to get a continous weapons fire
2. fire weapons in pairs
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n. fire all weapons at once
the hud should be supported by a basic gui that covers radar, missiongoals, weaponmanagement, target/navepoint-list and chatwindow, etc. that could be operated by mouse and keybord ... freelancer, freespace2 and eve got nice but not perfect guis, i think vegastrike can beat them in many terms!
Hm, I'm not sure if I want to be dealing with windows and the like in a cockpit. In my opinion it's bad enough that all modern desktop environments are window based, it just slows down my workflow if I don't organize it carefully (and certainly not in the way the market leader organized his operating system...).
I think such instrumentation isn't important enough to be put in a HUD and should go to the other head down instrumentation as well.
such a windowbased gui could also be used to represent varios data like marketinformations, reputationlist and mangement for further things that make thier way in when the games grows.
well basicly all the nifty stuff that makes pilots life easier ...
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