camview widget for cockpit

[voodoo]

Hi all,

Here is a patch to add an extra widget for the cockpit.
Actually, I took the idea in this post :
http://forums.armagetronad.net/viewtopic.php?t=1856

Here is an example and some details about it :
<Camview camera="in" view="in">
<Position x="-0.95" y="-0.95" />
<Size height="0.15" width="0.3" />
<Translation x="0.5" y="0" z="0" />
<Rotation value="150" />
<Mirror value="true" />
</Camview>

Some explaination:
-> Camera, position and size are standard elements as for all other widget.
-> View accept the same parameters as camera except * and all. It defines the camera to use in the view.
-> Translation move the camera from his normal position according to his direction (assuming the direction is (0,1,0)).
-> Rotation, hmmm, rotate the camera on Z axis (what a surprise)
-> Mirror flip the image

other params :
<Rise value="0" />
<FOV value="100" />
<MainCameraDir value="true" />
-> Rise overwrite the rise of the camera
-> FOV, same
-> MainCameraDir force the widget to use the main viewport camera as a original direction (it still apply the rotation on it) so glancing affect the widget as well

I've tested the patch on ubuntu gg and macos 10.5 for a few days, works fine so it's time to share it.

I hope you'll like it. Have fun

[Fonkay]

Yay!
Similar to something I suggested/requested here years ago.

[DDMJ]

Why did you flip the image? In the 'left' mirror it appears the pink bike is on your right while on the mini-map it's on your left.

EDIT: And why is 'Enemies' green and 'Friends' red?

[Jonathan]

<Mirror value="true" />

[Lucifer]

That's cool. I've been wanting this for years, in fact, it's one of the reasons the cockpit went where it did, so we could make a widget like this, it just hadn't been done yet.

Here's hoping wrtl will see this pretty soon and have a chance to read through the patch. Definitely want to see this make it in, good work!

Also, is that my cockpit you put it in? Do you use that one, or just use it because it had plenty of room for more widgets? Curious because everyone I know of that's tried to use my cockpit said it wasn't usable to them...

[Tank Program]

Awesome. I looked at some of the code at it looks OK, someone that understands all the bits will need to check it.

[voodoo]

small fix to make the widget show the same cycle as the main camera when spectating. Once you died, it was stuck on the first alive cycle found instead while the main cam was allowed to switch from cycle to cycle.

@lucifer: actually it's the default cockpit I use as an example (also because I lost my own cockpit )

[Lucifer]

Oh right, I forgot that the incam cockpit in the default cockpit is based on mine, just with some labels added and stuff (mine doesn't have labels for the bars, you're supposed to know what they are without reading labels).

Well, as soon as I get a new cpu fan for my laptop, and this is in the trunk (hopefully), I'll see about updating my incam cockpit to use it.

Hey, while we're on the subject of you writing cockpit widgets, would you be interested in seeing if you could turn the console/chat area into a cockpit widget? Also the chat input line?

[wrtlprnft]

Lucifer: it's the default cockpit…

I don't have too much time to check the patch right now, but I'll try to do so as soon as I can.

[DDMJ]

<Mirror value="true" />

Yea, but why?

[Lucifer]

So the left edge of the view and the left edge of your viewport mean the same direction on the grid.

[epsy]

and also act like mirrors --Mr. Obvious

[Your_mom]

Good job.

Hey, while we're on the subject of you writing cockpit widgets, would you be interested in seeing if you could turn the console/chat area into a cockpit widget? Also the chat input line?

Second.

[Bosf]

It looks nice but what i must do with that file?I just want to install it and play...

[Z-Man]

It's a patch. You need basic development knowledge to apply it, the wiki tells you everything if you look at the right page. You need to be able to
1. compile arma from source
2. fetch the latest source from SVN/BZR
before you can think about running a patched version.