MFD Placement Idea

mossfoot · Post by **mossfoot** » Mon Jun 30, 2014 4:26 pm

I have yet to use the MFDs, but love the concept. However, some might think they take up a bit of prime cockpit real-estate.

Idea: Why not have an option or OXP/Z that will put one MFD screen on the Left cockpit view (at the bottom right corner), and one on the Right (in the bottom left)? This could (sorta) simulate the idea of the panels being on the left and right hand side of the pilot, requiring him (or her) to turn their head to read it (since I use a joystick with the hat configured for POV, it would work especially well).

Zireael · Post by **Zireael** » Mon Jun 30, 2014 5:05 pm

I think this is doable, but requires tweaking the HUD code.

Also, can MFDs be scaled?

and more · Post by **cim** » Mon Jun 30, 2014 5:11 pm

It's possible - one way to do it involves having different HUDs for different view directions, and switching between them with a script listening to the viewDirectionChanged event.

You'd need to have all the HUDs define all the MFDs, and just have some of them position them offscreen, or you'd lose the settings.

Zireael wrote:
Also, can MFDs be scaled?

Yes - adjust the width and height values.

mossfoot · Post by **mossfoot** » Mon Jun 30, 2014 5:22 pm

Hopefully someone takes on the quest.

Does anyone else think that such a placement might be useful?

I'd do it, but my programming experience is limited to

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Diziet Sma · Post by **Diziet Sma** » Mon Jun 30, 2014 5:40 pm

mossfoot wrote:
Does anyone else think that such a placement might be useful?

Definitely.. as my recent playing around with the NumericHUD showed, screen space is at a premium.. putting less essential info on the side views might work well.

BladeRunner · Post by **BladeRunner** » Sat Jun 20, 2015 4:42 am

similar request for help at this thread:
https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f= ... 67#p238667

any progress/have you tried anything like this Diziet Sma? or Cim?

Norby · Post by **Norby** » Sat Jun 20, 2015 8:51 pm

NumericHUD contain a 4*4 MFDs layout where all views use different plists, all define 16 MFDs but only 4 is placed within the viewable area, this trick make different MFDs to all views. But after this I found more usable if more smaller MFD is fitted into and all shown in all views, so I made another layout with 8 MFDs.

Then I made the Large HUD with 10 MFDs in HUDSelector using even smaller letters to leave more space to the main action.

Day · Post by **Day** » Mon Jun 22, 2015 12:22 pm

Maybe it could be possible to do this in HudSelector, in the mfd selectors, so that it works automagically for every released HUD ?

Norby · Post by **Norby** » Mon Jun 22, 2015 4:49 pm

No, MFD positions are defined in hud plists which is not changeable from js, at least at the moment.

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