Hello all, new player here, just picked up the game a couple of weeks ago. After playing with Maximilien's excellent cockpit and HUD, I was inspired. This is the result:
The HUD is Maximilien's with a few tweaks:
- Larger and redesigned radar screen.
- New gun sight
- tweaked status and contacts screen for personal taste/better fit
- redesigned reflection graphics for the new cockpit
I liked Maximilien's idea of putting a universe map in the cockpit, so I did my own as large and readable as I could get it and kind of designed around that.
The first post has been edited with a download link.
I also put a replacement warning sound that I did in the zip.
Feedback and suggestions for improvement welcome and appreciated, though barring a major bug, I'll probably be taking a break and actually playing the game instead of wading around in the nuts and bolts for awhile. This turned into sort of a career, for a few days anyway.
Somebody needs to do a Marvin-like tutorial for modding a cockpit. If for no other reason than letting Marvin (me) learn how to do it.
I started by loading up the default cockpit from the customization kit into Blender and then deleting every face except for a few that I kept to let me know the bounds that I had to work with. Blender won't export directx format by default but there is a free plugin you can download that will. I used photoshop and illustrator for the 2d stuff but gimp and inkscape would work as well. So you could do it completely free except for lots of time.
Somebody needs to do a Marvin-like tutorial for modding a cockpit. If for no other reason than letting Marvin (me) learn how to do it.