Forum Discussion

5 years ago

Can we get a feature where you can hide the HUD, and the cockpit?

I want to build a real life cockpit, with squadrons on a projection screen. I wish that there was a way that we could hide the cockpit and hud to make a more immersive sim for myself. It would be gre...

RuStyMoNkeY96

5 years ago

The easy option is VR. If you wanted to take it a step further you could position the stick and other controls in the same location as they are in the cockpit (I think people have done this in Elite Dangerous). Nothing could beat that as you would be able to look around inside your cockpit and still feel the joystick etc

HaydenTheGordon

5 years ago

@RuStyMoNkeY96 Good idea, but in my opinion, nothing beats the real deal, which I will hopefully build

HCarbonic
5 years ago
@HaydenTheGordon @RuStyMoNkeY96 Both ideas are valid, but I’ve noticed a problem with both: with VR, unless everything is perfectly placed it’ll distort the reality completely. And with the real build, how would looking around the cockpit in game be like? That’d be sure to cause some disruption...
- HaydenTheGordon
  5 years ago
  @HCarbonic The plan for the real build is to build a rather big projection screen that is curved around the cockpit, so to look around, you would just tilt your head.
  - HCarbonic
    5 years ago
    @HaydenTheGordon Ahhh, I’d interpreted this as something similar but I thought it wouldn’t work because in game you can turn to look at the sides of the cockpit, but if you have no HUD...I misread that. It would be so cool to play in that though, I hope it works out for you