Transparent body part

[Shadok]

Perhaps this has already been discussed.
Currently, when the pilot's body is visible, it hides certain buttons, which means you have to make the body disappear to access them (if you haven't mapped these buttons).
I propose that, when the body is visible, the mouse creates a transparent zone on the body (similar to that of the flashlight) to make the panels hidden by the body visible.
Nothing urgent, nor vital for the simu, but I'd find it practical.
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Edited Friday at 03:17 AM by Shadok

[draconus]

On 1/1/2024 at 7:44 AM, Shadok said:

which means you have to make the body disappear to access them

No, you can click through.

[sirrah]

On 1/1/2024 at 7:44 AM, Shadok said:

Perhaps this has already been discussed.
Currently, when the pilot's body is visible, it hides certain buttons, which means you have to make the body disappear to access them (if you haven't mapped these buttons).
I propose that, when the body is visible, the mouse creates a transparent zone on the body (similar to that of the flashlight) to make the panels hidden by the body visible.
Nothing urgent, nor vital for the simu, but I'd find it practical.
Stay alive this year!

As an option, sure, why not. But please, at least make it look like this:

 

[Shadok]

5 hours ago, draconus said:

No, you can click through.

I misspoke. You can of course click through, but blindly.

[okopanja]

I think this should be an option. Perhaps experimental?

[Shadok]

8 hours ago, okopanja said:

I think this should be an option.

 

9 hours ago, sirrah said:

As an option, sure, why not.

Or a keyboard shortcut.

Edited January 4 by Shadok

[Shadok]

This option could also allow to see through the sticks. A kind of super vision giving access to buttons or screens on all panels.
With a dynamic toggle button, this would remain non-invasive.

[Vakarian]

Basically, if it could be done in a similar way RAZBAM guys have done it for the controls "ghost view", then this would be best of both worlds.

You still see the pilot body and controls, but it's transparent and you can click on the controls as if there was no body/controls rendered.

[SharpeXB]

9 hours ago, Shadok said:

This option could also allow to see through the sticks. A kind of super vision giving access to buttons or screens on all panels.
With a dynamic toggle button, this would remain non-invasive.

On many modules you can click on the stick to hide it.

You could simply bind a button on your mouse to hide the body. Solved. 
 

Most of the pilot bodies look like muppets. They’re distractingly bad in their animations. I’ll say the F-15E one is the first I’ve seen that’s actually animated well and doesn’t look like a stick puppet. I still have it turned off all the time though. 

Edited January 15 by SharpeXB

[sirrah]

4 hours ago, SharpeXB said:

I’ll say the F-15E one is the first I’ve seen that’s actually animated well and doesn’t look like a stick puppet. I still have it turned off all the time though. 

 

Apparently you've not seen the AV8B pilot model, which is on par with the Strike Eagle.

Tomcat pilot is also pretty detailed and ED has been (and as far as I know are still) working hard improving the Hornet and Apache models.

[Shadok]

On 1/15/2024 at 10:26 AM, Vakarian said:

Basically, if it could be done in a similar way RAZBAM guys have done it for the controls "ghost view", then this would be best of both worlds.

You still see the pilot body and controls, but it's transparent and you can click on the controls as if there was no body/controls rendered.

I don't see this option for the M2000 that I own, maybe you speack about the F15E?

A screenshot would be welcome

 

On 1/15/2024 at 3:08 PM, SharpeXB said:

On many modules you can click on the stick to hide it.

You could simply bind a button on your mouse to hide the body. Solved. 
 

Most of the pilot bodies look like muppets. They’re distractingly bad in their animations. I’ll say the F-15E one is the first I’ve seen that’s actually animated well and doesn’t look like a stick puppet. I still have it turned off all the time though. 

 

Personally, I prefer to fly with the pilot's body visible, as I find the animations and rendering quite satisfactory. But I understand that this may not interest you.

Edited January 16 by Shadok

[Shadok]

On 1/15/2024 at 10:26 AM, Vakarian said:

Basically, if it could be done in a similar way RAZBAM guys have done it for the controls "ghost view", then this would be best of both worlds.

You still see the pilot body and controls, but it's transparent and you can click on the controls as if there was no body/controls rendered.

I found a video of RAZBAM's ghost view. It's interesting, but my idea is that the pilot's body remains fully visible except for a small area where you want to modify the controls. In RAZBAM's ghost view, the pilot's body is unaffected and should disappear completely.