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[Budor]

What happened to this:



Why do we have this instead



The cockpits look kind of bland, if we keep them please just adjust the lighting. It all looks way to bright. I always imagined something dark with a lot of glowing/enlit stuff going round the switches/buttons.

[edit] detaching stuff from the ui and having it on the different monitors inside the cockpit would be a dream and add so much character to the different chassi. I know thats way harder to do and a ton of work but one can dream

Edited by Budor, 15 January 2013 - 10:27 AM.

[Arclight]

Are you asking why the Atlas doesn't have the Hunchback cockpit?

[Aedensin]

Maybe they were worried all the screens would cause peoples heads to explode due to information overload?

[Budor]

Arclight, on 15 January 2013 - 10:23 AM, said:

Are you asking why the Atlas doesn't have the Hunchback cockpit?

No im asking why they went with a brighter and different style for the in cockpit textures. Im not talking about the (yet) unused monitors. It doesnt live up to 2k gaming standards, esp if you have played any simulators (not that mwo is one) or even(!) Hawken.

Spoiler

This is badass to, props to whoever did it:

Edited by Budor, 15 January 2013 - 10:39 AM.

[Aedensin]

Budor, on 15 January 2013 - 10:31 AM, said:

This is badass to, props to whoever did it:

Pants....

Edited by Aedensin, 15 January 2013 - 10:38 AM.

[Serapth]

Frankly I would love the option to just make the cockpit a flat gray, to speed up graphics performance. It's the definition of superflous. Then again, I am also one of those people that plays racing games from the bumper cam.

[hammerreborn]

Budor, on 15 January 2013 - 10:31 AM, said:

No im asking why they went with a brighter and different style for the in cockpit textures. Im not talking about the (yet) unused monitors. It doesnt live up to 2k gaming standards, esp if you have played any simulators (not that mwo is one) or even(!) Hawken.



This is badass to, props to whoever did it:

Both of those look horrendous. Is that a giant dong missle on the left side of the hawken picture? And in the second, we just going to take what we have now, paint it blood red and call it awesome?

[The Amazing Atomic Spaniel]

Budor, on 15 January 2013 - 10:21 AM, said:

The cockpits look kind of bland, if we keep them please just adjust the lighting. It all looks way to bright. I always imagined something dark with a lot of glowing/enlit stuff going round the switches/buttons.

Remember that you can adjust the cockpit lighting by hitting the "." key. I usually darken mine down at the start of a match.

I guess in the long run, PGI would like to put some of the HUD information onto the screens in the cockpit.

[Arclight]

Budor, on 15 January 2013 - 10:31 AM, said:

No im asking why they went with a brighter and different style for the in cockpit textures. Im not talking about the (yet) unused monitors. It doesnt live up to 2k gaming standards, esp if you have played any simulators (not that mwo is one) or even(!) Hawken.

Mm only real visual difference between this and, say, DCS cockpit is the lack of dynamic shadows. Those would definitely improve the look of it tenfold.

Imho at least MW:O cockpits make sense to the point that you might actually find something like that in a 'Mech if they existed. They look practical, even if they miss some "cool factor".

[Budor]

RocketDog, on 15 January 2013 - 10:41 AM, said:

Remember that you can adjust the cockpit lighting by hitting the "." key. I usually darken mine down at the start of a match.

I guess in the long run, PGI would like to put some of the HUD information onto the screens in the cockpit.

I always thought thats what the bind would do. Rebound it 3x times already and it seems to do nothing for me...so i thought its prolly meant for those holiday lights that they sold and didnt try it again.

Does altering the in cockpit light make the "light grey" colored panels darker or does it darken the glow/light around switches?

[Penance]

one is an artists drawing of the hunchback, the other, an in game shot of a totally different mech.

Edited by Penance, 15 January 2013 - 10:54 AM.

[GriefHard]

Well - there at least ought to be information on the displays. The information "in your helmet" can stay there, in my opinion, but there has to be info on the various screens in the cockpit. And the lighting is too bright on many parts. It seems not to be a real cockpit with its light sources.

My personal dream would be to be able to move virtual screens around and even put them on secondary/tertiary monitors to be really building your own cockpit!

Until this is implemented (if ever), the cockpit has to become more "alive" ingame!

[The Amazing Atomic Spaniel]

Budor, on 15 January 2013 - 10:45 AM, said:

I always thought thats what the bind would do. Rebound it 3x times already and it seems to do nothing for me...so i thought its prolly meant for those holiday lights that they sold and didnt try it again.

Does altering the in cockpit light make the "light grey" colored panels darker or does it darken the glow/light around switches?

Works OK for me, although I don't think it works so well on all maps. It's very effective on Forest Colony, less so on Caustic. I'll try and post up some screenshots when the game is back up after the patch. The cockpit illumination leaves the glowing lights unaffected, so it's quite pretty.

[Tennex]

not going to lie.

they need an option in graphics to turn down cockpit detail.

it takes up a lot of computing and is not functional at all to actual combat

[Warrax the Chaos Warrior]

You can change your FOV with the user.cfg file if you want to see more of the cockpit (it's known, and legal, no so worries.) I've noticed in my Cataphract that one of the screens does accurately show my ammo information, but it isn't real easy to see in the default FOV. I don't know if that's on all mechs or not.

edit: it's...
cl_fov = 65
Where 65 is default; make the number bigger (75ish maybe) if you want more cockpit.

Edited by Warrax the Chaos Warrior, 15 January 2013 - 11:27 AM.

[Adridos]

The earliest of videos had the screens actually showing more than just heatsinks...

[Budor]

Thanks for improving the "metal" texture on some panels.

[Taizan]

Budor, on 15 January 2013 - 10:21 AM, said:

[edit] detaching stuff from the ui and having it on the different monitors inside the cockpit would be a dream and add so much character to the different chassi. I know thats way harder to do and a ton of work but one can dream

Actually it would be pretty awesome if you could just switch all UI elements off and use the displays in your cockpit. The aiming reticule would have to remain I guess. Yes I'd like that indeed.

Maybe refunction Shfit + F11 to do something like that!

[Corvus Antaka]

Sorry but I think the cockpits look awesome. With fov 85 I feel the positioning feels exactly right too.

[Budor]

I was rambling because i didnt like the textures at all. Now with this patch some stuff looks bump mapped, some metal panel backgrounds. Way better now.