in progress Pilot body

[westr]

When will it get one again ? 1st person? 

[Japo32]

In that case RightShift+P doesn't make show him. I tried in vR.

[Eisprinzessin]

Yes, i hoped for it as well with the "new module". Sadly its not there.

 

[zaelu]

+1
Me also I was surprised again this feature is left out. You can't even judge if the cockpit or eye position is right in VR with an empty cockpit.

I have reached the conclusion most of devs are against this feature as it's something love it or hate it. once you fall on the idea you are sitting in another man's lap and is not your body... snap... you're out. Tons of excuses and rationalisations but in effect is some deep hidden resentment of this feature.
"I can't see the most important toggle switch which is located... right about here or there..."
"Once is On I am completely unable to toggle it off"
"It's hard to do it... the pilot body needs 30 billion triangles else the simulation of it's blood circulation is off"
etc etc

When in fact is very simple if you just accept the absolute Freudian fact that when you hate this feature you feel like you are force to sit in another man's lap and you hate it so much that you just don't want to see it used by anyone. You don't want even be talked about and if is in the project to do list it just slips for years and years at the bottom. oops... Freud again.

Thousands of years ago the planes didn't had a 3D cockpit... and same discussion was running... "Yes a 3D cockpit is realistic but will hinder visibility as we look through a small monitor. " etc. Probably then was another Freudian slippage... cockpit
Probably the same happened with the... joystick...  


But it's good we can open the panels now.  At least the "OMG these are better used elsewhere resources" argument can't be used without making me puke.


 

Edited December 21, 2022 by zaelu

[mobua]

Hi,

Enquiring as to if there are any plans as part of the B33 roadmap to add an in-cockpit pilot body?

Thanks!

[Bvv.Fr]

I think ed promised a pilots body, no?

I bought bs3 too quick 

[Bvv.Fr]

[Silver_Dragon]

On 12/23/2022 at 9:48 AM, Bvv.Fr said:

I think ed promised a pilots body, no?

I bought bs3 too quick 

ED plan pilot body updates on ED modules as a technology, but that take time, and has other on update progress, previously to see them on Ka-50-3. From 2023 "roadmap" (no dates).
 

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Human Animations
Starting with new AH-64D pilots in 2022, this work will continue into 2023 to include new infantry and more pilots with more life-like models and animations. Priority pilot models first include the F/A-18C and F-16C pilots.

 

[WarbossPetross]

I don't know about legal aspects, but it would be super nice if the pilot was modelled after Dmitri Avtukhov who piloted the Shark at the 1993 Paris Air Show and in the Black Shark movie.

[Bvv.Fr]

[Crash *]

The Mi-24 is finally getting its VR body. It already looks quite decent.

ED should please copy the comrade and put it into the KA-50 quite quickly.

Unfortunately, this "bad habit" of inserting the most important part of the whole thing, namely the pilot, only at the end, is gaining ground.

[zaelu]

News?
And I wish it will have two small improvements over Ah-64 one:

1.  A bigger invisible mask outside of which the head of the pilot reappears. It's disturbing in Apache.
2. Perfectly straight body posture not like the CPG in Apache and Pilot in F14. Devs should be forced to use these features forever until fixed  .

[paco2002]

Is there an update on this?

[zaelu]

11 hours ago, paco2002 said:

Is there an update on this?

Maybe the contractor wasn't paid up in time and he starved somewhere in Siberia   

[Kappa-131st]

KA-50 is definitivly an abandonware for ED... 

[Flappie]

7 hours ago, Kappa-131st said:

KA-50 is definitivly an abandonware for ED... 

No, it's not.