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Title: Personalized Cockpits
Post by: saantana on December 17, 2009, 11:13:48 AM: Have you ever wondered what 80% of the cockpit gauges are really for? I have, and still do today.

Do you live with a significant other of the opposite sex who does not wish to see other members of their sex on your office/shed/bedroom/garage/classroom/dads or moms office (Wherever the computer you play on is) posing near naked in seductive positions? I do.

If you answered yes to any of the two questions above, then this idea is for you!

While in the Hangar, we select a plane and then choose the new 'Personalize Cockpit' option. Then, we browse through picture files found in 'My Pictures' and choose a spot in the cockpit, where we would 'attach' this picture too, effectively covering the area underneath.

I would certainly prefer a picture of Megan Fox in the spot where my oil gauge is in my Spitfire cockpit. Wouldn't you?

(http://ahdywizjon308.servegame.org:8000/fileDownload.php?filename=megan_fox.jpg&system_name=repository_file_278)

This is an amazing idea.
Title: Re: Personalized Cockpits
Post by: gyrene81 on December 17, 2009, 11:25:52 AM: I want one of those jiggly hula dancer dolls on the dash. :banana:

+1
Title: Re: Personalized Cockpits
Post by: Strip on December 17, 2009, 11:28:33 AM: That means SAPP could actually have blenders in the cockpit, oh the humanity, poor P-3....er...B-38s, there wont be anything left!

STrip
Title: Re: Personalized Cockpits
Post by: warphoenix on December 17, 2009, 12:27:10 PM: you are wierd but i like the idea +1
Title: Re: Personalized Cockpits
Post by: morfiend on December 17, 2009, 12:56:00 PM: Well it's not the cockpit,but did you know you can load your fav.pic{s} onto the clipboard?

Yup into clipboard maps,convert to bmp.?? I think and view your pic on climbouts etc.
Title: Re: Personalized Cockpits
Post by: AKP on December 17, 2009, 02:28:16 PM: :huh You mean your cockpits dont look like this?

(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l273/woosle_2006/B25Cockpit1.jpg)

(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l273/woosle_2006/B25Cockpit2.jpg)
Title: Re: Personalized Cockpits
Post by: saantana on December 17, 2009, 02:38:17 PM: :D lol!

(http://ahdywizjon308.servegame.org:8000/fileDownload.php?filename=B25Cockpit2.jpg&system_name=repository_file_279)

Fixed! ;)
Title: Re: Personalized Cockpits
Post by: saantana on December 17, 2009, 03:01:33 PM: Quote from: warphoenix on December 17, 2009, 12:27:10 PM
you are wierd but i like the idea +1

One day, you'll understand ;)
Title: Re: Personalized Cockpits
Post by: Yossarian on December 17, 2009, 03:26:57 PM: Quote from: AKP on December 17, 2009, 02:28:16 PM
:huh You mean your cockpits dont look like this?

(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l273/woosle_2006/B25Cockpit1.jpg)

(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l273/woosle_2006/B25Cockpit2.jpg)

Can I haz your B-25? :D

EDIT: Corrected spelling to comply with 'lolcat' regulations.
Title: Re: Personalized Cockpits
Post by: Templar on December 17, 2009, 06:46:38 PM: +1 for the idea :aok and +1 for Megan Fox :O :cheers: :banana: :D
Title: Re: Personalized Cockpits
Post by: Penguin on December 17, 2009, 08:40:25 PM: Oh great, another publication spot for the Wednsday Babe.

-1 Realize that there are minors playing on this site, we don't want to deal with Fegan Mox or whoever that silicone weilding horror story on legs is (not a Christian, I just get enough of this at school, a visual element would make me want to leave).

If this came on the site, my mom would make me leave AH2, and I assume the rest of your under 18 customer base. Also, if the stuff is there, by law you have to say that there is the possiblity of porn in the game.

On the other hand, getting rid of us squeakers wouldn't sound so bad to you, wouldn't it?

Riddle me that.

-Penguin
Title: Re: Personalized Cockpits
Post by: Motherland on December 17, 2009, 08:43:02 PM: Quote from: Penguin on December 17, 2009, 08:40:25 PM
Oh great, another publication spot for the Wednsday Babe.

-1 Realize that there are minors playing on this site, we don't want to deal with Fegan Mox or whoever that silicone weilding horror story on legs is (not a Christian, I just get enough of this at school, a visual element would make me want to leave).

If this came on the site, my mom would make me leave AH2, and I assume the rest of your under 18 customer base. Also, if the stuff is there, by law you have to say that there is the possiblity of porn in the game.

On the other hand, getting rid of us squeakers wouldn't sound so bad to you, wouldn't it?

Riddle me that.

-Penguin
:lol

As silly as I think this is....

Quote from: saantana on December 17, 2009, 11:13:48 AM
While in the Hangar, we select a plane and then choose the new 'Personalize Cockpit' option. Then, we browse through picture files found in 'My Pictures' and choose a spot in the cockpit, where we would 'attach' this picture too, effectively covering the area underneath

Also that may be the worst picture of Megan Fox not featuring her toe thumb I've seen. :bolt:
Title: Re: Personalized Cockpits
Post by: saantana on December 17, 2009, 09:53:40 PM: Quote from: Penguin on December 17, 2009, 08:40:25 PM
Oh great, another publication spot for the Wednsday Babe.

-1 Realize that there are minors playing on this site, we don't want to deal with Fegan Mox or whoever that silicone weilding horror story on legs is (not a Christian, I just get enough of this at school, a visual element would make me want to leave).

If this came on the site, my mom would make me leave AH2, and I assume the rest of your under 18 customer base. Also, if the stuff is there, by law you have to say that there is the possiblity of porn in the game.

On the other hand, getting rid of us squeakers wouldn't sound so bad to you, wouldn't it?

Riddle me that.

-Penguin

The scenario you are suggesting would only be a valid argument IF and ONLY IF you chose to personalize YOUR cockpit with the material you yourself suggested.

If your not into Megan Fox, then feel free to place an image of whatever else you feel like. ;)

And what do you care what I have in my cockpit, if you will never see it anyway? This is a free country after all!

There would be a possibility of hot women inside your cockpit if and only if you chose to put them there. I doubt that law has anything to do with it.

P.S Would your mom really make you leave if she saw a picture of Megan Fox in your cockpit? That should be categorized as child abuse!!!
Title: Re: Personalized Cockpits
Post by: CountD90 on December 18, 2009, 01:46:13 AM: Wow you got some strict parents and let me emphasize strict a lot on that one. My parents didn't about that stuff at all. Hell its part of growing up, your gonna have to start dealing with it eventually, might as well deal with it while playing your favorite game eh.
Title: Re: Personalized Cockpits
Post by: JimmyC on December 18, 2009, 07:33:25 AM: Quote from: Penguin on December 17, 2009, 08:40:25 PM
you have to say that there is the possiblity of porn in the game.

.... lol
hardly
Title: Re: Personalized Cockpits
Post by: saantana on December 18, 2009, 11:08:43 AM: Apart from issues relating to adolescence, I think the idea is generally a good first step to be able to costumize in game content, that does not affect other players.

I know HTC's gripe with custom player costumization, but most of it if not all has to do with content that is visible on the plane itself, to other players. That's why skins have to be approved, and then added to the game. This prevents historically incorrect skins, for example. Or me creating a skin that has Megan Fox pictures all over it. Makes sense.

However who cares what I can see inside my own cockpit, apart from me? I think it would add a nice personal touch to every bird we fly. I would have different images in my Spitfire, than I have in my German rides of choice.
Title: Re: Personalized Cockpits
Post by: VonMessa on December 18, 2009, 11:22:59 AM: Drawing from that analogy, what is there to keep you from making your floor/dash/bulkheads or anything else, transparent?
Title: Re: Personalized Cockpits
Post by: saantana on December 18, 2009, 11:27:10 AM: Quote from: VonMessa on December 18, 2009, 11:22:59 AM
Drawing from that analogy, what is there to keep you from making your floor/dash/bulkheads or anything else, transparent?

That would have to be controlled by the implementation. The regular cockpit is still in place, you might just have a nice 3d model of a photo with a custom image, making it look like it was actually modeled into the cockpit model itself. I'm not a graphics expert, but that's how I would imagine the implementation to look like.

Sort of like what we have with squad logos on planes, just your own and in the cockpit, in the spot you choose.
Title: Re: Personalized Cockpits
Post by: guncrasher on December 18, 2009, 06:42:40 PM: If they allows to put pictures of our girlfriends some of us would be limited to only flying buffs :devil.

semp
Title: Re: Personalized Cockpits
Post by: Templar on December 18, 2009, 07:51:55 PM: Roflmao! Good one Guncrasher! :aok. Just don't tell my wife I laughed at that..... :noid
Title: Re: Personalized Cockpits
Post by: Penguin on December 20, 2009, 06:16:31 PM: What my parents would worry about is when I switch into another squadmates cockpit.

That's what I don't want, I like playing this game too much! This is NOT I reap NOT some sort of fundamentalist view, I just want to keep playing!

-Penguin
Title: Re: Personalized Cockpits
Post by: Templar on December 20, 2009, 09:10:46 PM: Ok Penguin, you actually sound sincere about your concern, so how about we include an "quick clear" option for the pilot in the options section of the clipboard to where the pilot can shut down the customized cockpit, immeiately returning the cockpit to the normal view setting so that observers will not be offended.... :angel: or as another option how about a setting during the join request interaction to clear the custom cockpit and retun to normal as part of the join request approval procedure....
Title: Re: Personalized Cockpits
Post by: Motherland on December 20, 2009, 09:15:41 PM: It would be completely client side... the game can't display a file it doesn't have... and you wouldn't upload the file to any server (talk about a ton of crap).
Title: Re: Personalized Cockpits
Post by: saantana on December 21, 2009, 08:49:09 AM: Yes, Motherland got it.

When you 'switch into your friends cockpit' you would not be seeing their customizations. There is nothing the server needs to know about the client cockpits. Squeekers: you have no reason to panic.

This idea is flawless!
Title: Re: Personalized Cockpits
Post by: Templar on December 21, 2009, 02:59:16 PM: Good response Saantana. Good point. Squeekers remain calm :angel:
Title: Re: Personalized Cockpits
Post by: Yossarian on December 21, 2009, 04:48:09 PM: -1

Cause it's not gonna happen :P
Title: Re: Personalized Cockpits
Post by: Penguin on December 21, 2009, 05:08:36 PM: I don't see why not, maybe even a textbox, like a notesheet!

+1

P.S. Remaning calm

-Penguin
Title: Re: Personalized Cockpits
Post by: saantana on December 22, 2009, 01:57:12 PM: Quote from: Penguin
I don't see why not, maybe even a textbox, like a notesheet!

+1

P.S. Remaning calm

-Penguin

Good :aok

Quote from: Yossarian

-1

Cause it's not gonna happen Neener! Neener!

Not unless I can help it. I liked the direction that HTC took with the terrain revamp, they made a bold step to catch up with trends. I see this wish as the same kind of step.

Adding newer and newer planes will get boring after a while; I will risk the statement that any new additions will become hangar queens.
Title: Re: Personalized Cockpits
Post by: trigger2 on December 23, 2009, 02:36:26 AM: Quote from: saantana on December 22, 2009, 01:57:12 PM
Adding newer and newer planes will get boring after a while; I will risk the statement that any new additions will become hangar queens.

Not if we got this bad-boy...

It entered service in 2005, err, 1941... :pray

(http://i637.photobucket.com/albums/uu97/Sh1fty/USAF_F-22_Raptor_Screensaver.jpg)
:D

Now onto the OP: +1!!!!!111!!11!one!!eleventyone!
Title: Re: Personalized Cockpits
Post by: Plawranc on December 23, 2009, 04:50:09 AM: +1

I would like a pin-up of Raechel Weisz in my "office" :D
Title: Re: Personalized Cockpits
Post by: saantana on December 23, 2009, 11:35:46 AM: Quote from: Plawranc on December 23, 2009, 04:50:09 AM
+1

I would like a pin-up of Raechel Weisz in my "office" :D

Good taste.