[RandomTiger]

Hi there, I've taken a short break from DX8 programming to implement something I wanted to see in this engine.

A special pause that allows you to toggle external view and rotate around your ship. I thought this would be very useful for getting screenshots (and general fun).

Heres some I got with it:





Anyway if you want a shot its now part of the fs2_open exe.

Keys:

Alt-Pause to enter special pause mode (and again or just pause to leave)

Once in pause mode:

Enter: External ship view
Tab: Toggle hud

The just use the number keypad like you normally would.

If people find it really useful I might add more functionality to make it even better. (Theres probably a few bugs to fix as well). Let me know what you think.

[Black Wolf]

Looks f***ing sweet dude. Excellent work

[Solatar]

This is one of the most usefull source code MODs yet. Finally, no HUD getting in the way.
Thank you!!!

[Thor]

You know I'll like it.

[Galemp]

Can you say "Bullet Time Mod?"

[Solatar]

Damn, that thing is awesome, I just had to say that twice.

I've already used it. It helps a lot.

[Bobboau]

could you get it to swich targets, ie have it go around the ship you have targeted (or something), I havn't looked at the code related to this stuff so I have no idea how your doing this

[RandomTiger]

Thats the kind of thing that we could do to expand it. However the code doesnt lend itself to well for that as you'll see if you take a look. Still could be worth the effort.

[LAW ENFORCER]

does the 2d .anis look bad when rotating or not? (like some games do:rolleyes: )

[Sesquipedalian]

Incidentally, does this exe represent all the latest stuff from the main fs2_open branch, or only the addition of this feature?

[Bobboau]

are the beams still tiled way too much?

[RandomTiger]

LAW ENFORCER: Yep, its the way the engine works, sorry
Sesquipedalian: Yep everything should be in there
Bobboau: Yep tiling is still there and it doesnt look great paused either

[Solatar]

Just for everybody who doesn't like tiling, let me tell you, it is optional.
Anyway, you could rip some code out of FRED2 so that your ship can rotate around your target.

[wamingo]

I've tried it several times in two missions now and it works fine so far, except it seems you're sort of able to control the camera with the mouse but sort of not... not that it's important it just seems odd that it's half-working... if ya don't wanna work on it you could just disable it, it's not all that useful.
nice work

[vyper]

Wheeeeeeeeee! Time for nice clean screenshots w/o targeting data! :thepimp:

[Stunaep]

One question: What have you done to the Warp ani. It looks sweet!

[RandomTiger]

You mean in the screenshot? Nothing, just got a view of it thats difficult to get without using the new pause feature.

[Dr.Zer0]

that first screenie looks like something relly relly neat

[untouchable]

hehe

Is there a possibility that somone could add something to the Fred2.exe now so that this can be used as an event in mission design? That would be friggen awesome

[Thor]

You mean make it go matrix-like, say if a crucial ship goes boom.