posted 07-10- 03:07 PM               

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The way I did the yak cockpit was take a capture of the panel and resize it to 256x256 and map it onto a poly shaped like the panel. Then I added circular polys with detailed maps of instruments and placed them over top of the ones on the less detailed map.

for the pipes I made half-cylinders and oriented the curved half facing the pilot. For the gear knob I used a flat poly with the "billboard" flag turned on. To make the cockpit look less flat I made "bumps" in the panel where some of the knobs were in the texture.

All the instrument stuff was copied from other planes but I had to reposition a lot of DOFs.
For the cloudglass I just made a big poly "cover" that went outside the canopy so the fog doesnt come inside the plane.
For the canopy reflections I made another poly "cover" that went outside the canopy but inside the cloudglass. Its more FPS friendly than making a bunch of glass planes that meet the canopy frame.

Laika and I were experimenting with doing the instrument textures at 128x64 and placing two of them on a 128x128 texture tile, it looked pretty good.

You make it like this on one 128x128 tif:
( dial1 )
( dial2 )

Then you map the top part of the texture to one dial and stretch it out so its square, then map the bottom part to another dial and strech the mapping on that one so its square too.

I used this trick to get the maximum pixels out of the yak panel.. if you look at the texture it looks all streched but in game it looks normal.

TS

posted 07-10- 03:21 PM               

That is how Nuum did the SE5a cockpit, well the instrument panel at least.

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posted 07-10- 04:20 PM               

Tail - I assume you received the half-updated-thing. Still no time for serious work here (only for reply to several topics ). I'll contact you with some more questions etc. next week (friday I think). Can I dl the new yak somewhere ? If not when will it be out ?

posted 07-10- 04:56 PM               

Thanks for the description! We can always use these great tips! I've got a couple of cockpits to do here pretty quick so this will come in handy!

posted 07-10- 05:28 PM               

I'm holding off releasing the new yak until the next plane pack or we get the common russian instruments mapped whichever comes first. Please put your instrument textures in cockpit\Rus\textures like I did on the yak, it makes more sense if we are sharing them.

posted 07-11- 02:24 AM               

The instrument textures are still in the Pe2 folders to keep overview, of course I'll change the path when all is done (instr. wise).

Thanks !

posted 07-11- 10:43 AM               

Laika, sent again.