Friday 2010-10-01 Dev. update and Discussion

[Sturm_Williger]

Originally Posted by matsher

Right, onto the real reason I wanted to post. This posting thing is pretty new to me so please excuse any babbling...

I have one development question / wish / request that has always been on my mind, and I have never come across anyone else asking about it... So here it is

Full cockpit vs Wonderview:- In IL-2 there is either Full cockpit or gunsight and sky. Nothing inbetween. It would be so good if there was a third option.

To Oleg- Will/can there be a player defined option to set the in-cockpit view at 65% (or so) opacity, to make it semi-transparent?
So pilots can still have more "sky" but also can have the feeling that they are still flying in a beautifully rendered fighter plane?

The cockpit opacity settings would be amazing to have... No longer will we have to choose between dynamic gameplay (Wonderview) and immersion (In cockpit)... We could have both.
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Matsher, some years ago, Oleg posted a development picture showing the "new Wonderwoman" view in which the "floating instruments" were semi-opaque. This wasn't a semi-transparent cockpit, but did show "see-through" instruments, so about half of what you're looking for. ( also, they were representations of the actual cockpit guages/dials, rather than the IL2 "cartoon" instruments )

I spent some time looking through old harddrives last night, but unfortunately I can't find it. Still, it was quite some time ago and anything might have changed.