a friendly reminder to HiTech

[Vulcan]

HT I was thinking about the corner text issue with the VR stuff.

Perhaps a secondary clipboard fixed in the knee position that appears when you look down would address it? The reason I say appears when you look down is that being in vehicle gunsights is a fixed forward view, so it needs to toggle for that environment.

It would be nice to have it on a knee but I know that'd be a huge amount of work and some dropped fps. Though it does add to the immersion. ED has a pilot figure rendered, and it's the freakiest thing when your playing with a HOTAS setup. When you take your hand of the stick your mind does a kind of 'take 2' is the ingame arm doesn't move - I still get freaked by it. But their pilot layouts are the same on each ship.

[hitech]

HT I was thinking about the corner text issue with the VR stuff.

Perhaps a secondary clipboard fixed in the knee position that appears when you look down would address it? The reason I say appears when you look down is that being in vehicle gunsights is a fixed forward view, so it needs to toggle for that environment.

It would be nice to have it on a knee but I know that'd be a huge amount of work and some dropped fps. Though it does add to the immersion. ED has a pilot figure rendered, and it's the freakiest thing when your playing with a HOTAS setup. When you take your hand of the stick your mind does a kind of 'take 2' is the ingame arm doesn't move - I still get freaked by it. But their pilot layouts are the same on each ship.

When my 4 year old daughter plays with it she keeps saying "Where are my hands".

HiTech

[Wraith_TMS]

When my 4 year old daughter plays with it she keeps saying "Where are my hands".

HiTech

Perhaps this might work for such occasions?  From several accounts, Leap Motion sensors recently got a useful firmware update, called Orion, which makes them viable for some things.  It's a third-party solution, of course, but might be also serve as a pass-through camera (as seen in this link; demo in use with a Rift): https://developer.leapmotion.com/gallery/quick-switch

BTW, the "several accounts" can be found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/search?q=leap+motion+orion

FWIW,


 

[terrydew]

The corner text issue is not just a VR problem it is also a problem with a large monitor like the large 4K tvs available at reasonable prices.

Terry

[hitech]

I'm trying to think of all the items this effects.

1. The R for recording.

2. The Name of voice transmitions.

3. The hud speed and alt.

4. Possibly the damage display.

Any others?

My thought for fix is simply to make them dragable to where you want them displayed.

HiTech

[Mister Fork]

5. Attitude indicator
6. Heading indicator
7. Vertical speed indicator

Just think about flying what you would need if you're in clouds?

[caldera]

Damn thread hijackers.   


HiTech, will the length of the drone leash be adjusted, in addition to the removal of warping?   What about bombers performing steep dives, climbs and Immelmans, while keeping their drones?

[715]

Any others?

HiTech

The gun round count in tank commander view and manned gun views and the range info in SB view?

[hitech]

Damn thread hijackers.   


HiTech, will the length of the drone leash be adjusted, in addition to the removal of warping?   What about bombers performing steep dives, climbs and Immelmans, while keeping their drones?

Nothing will change in the drone code, only thing that is changing is how your drones are displayed to other people.

HiTech

[Easyscor]

Reminder: 
Water craft can't travel under bridges. 

[Chilli]

I'm trying to think of all the items this effects.

1. The R for recording.

2. The Name of voice transmitions.

3. The hud speed and alt.

4. Possibly the damage display.

Any others?

My thought for fix is simply to make them dragable to where you want them displayed.

HiTech

5. Attitude indicator
6. Heading indicator
7. Vertical speed indicator

Just think about flying what you would need if you're in clouds?

8.  The location of my bottle of Jim Beam behind the seat.. 

[hitech]

5. Attitude indicator
6. Heading indicator
7. Vertical speed indicator

Just think about flying what you would need if you're in clouds?

We are not talking about instruments, we are talking about how the VR ocullas head set will not let you see the corners of the screen. Hence any text we put there can not be viewed.

HiTech

[FLS]

My thought for fix is simply to make them dragable to where you want them displayed.

HiTech

That will also be nice for triple monitors.

[Chilli]

Bomber calibration screen.

Gunner position.

Plane position.

[Vulcan]

Vehicle and manned gun range settings/ammo remaining/ammo selected/mode selected).

Some of the vehicle range indicators are quite hard to read (e.g. panther).

Dragable is nice, but I like not having to much clutter in my view. Also the headset is not like a screen, dragging these to the edge of your view doesn't help, they need to be a readable spot (imagine the screen center is readable, then slowly becomes peripheral version as you move out). Which is why I thought a kneepad would be better. No clutter, and if you want to read these you just look down (currently dead space in the view).