Yes, that would certainly work, but full camera control would give you a better feel for how it all fits together.
No Space Legs yet, so how about...
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great idea
crossposted from your reddit thread
Most likely they would have to re-model some aspects of animations we see. The Eagle, Imperial Eagle, and Imperial Courier all had to have their landing gear extended to allow for an SRV to deploy downwards from the cargo hatch. I'm not sure how many other ships needed to do this as well.
The funny thing is that the Imperial Courier has a rear ramp between the two thrusters, and it might be wide enough to deploy and SRV. The Imperial Clipper's definitely is.
I'm not sure if the Imperial Eagle was intended to deploy an SRV, but my guess is Gutamaya ships were intended to have an alternate means of deploying SRVs in a 'fancy' or elaborate manner. (Hell, there might even be a secretive Gutamaya version of the SRV, that the never finished developing.)
So my assumption is that the way the original internal schematics work do not currently jive with the 'measurements' and diagrams of the internal compartments as they exist right now, and they definitely don't fit with the animations as they exist right now.
(Have you tried deploying a huge plasma accelerator from a Fer-de-Lance in the hangar? Oh my gods the clipping?)
So your best option is to guess from the outside and through the windows. Personally, I believe the Cutter has an armoured bridge, gunnery control, fleet command, or VIP observation deck just behind the large dorsal hardpoints. (The gunnery station guess was pre-multi-crew.)
Theory crafting is fun.
Most likely they would have to re-model some aspects of animations we see. The Eagle, Imperial Eagle, and Imperial Courier all had to have their landing gear extended to allow for an SRV to deploy downwards from the cargo hatch. I'm not sure how many other ships needed to do this as well.
The funny thing is that the Imperial Courier has a rear ramp between the two thrusters, and it might be wide enough to deploy and SRV. The Imperial Clipper's definitely is.
I'm not sure if the Imperial Eagle was intended to deploy an SRV, but my guess is Gutamaya ships were intended to have an alternate means of deploying SRVs in a 'fancy' or elaborate manner. (Hell, there might even be a secretive Gutamaya version of the SRV, that the never finished developing.)
So my assumption is that the way the original internal schematics work do not currently jive with the 'measurements' and diagrams of the internal compartments as they exist right now, and they definitely don't fit with the animations as they exist right now.
(Have you tried deploying a huge plasma accelerator from a Fer-de-Lance in the hangar? Oh my gods the clipping?)
So your best option is to guess from the outside and through the windows. Personally, I believe the Cutter has an armoured bridge, gunnery control, fleet command, or VIP observation deck just behind the large dorsal hardpoints. (The gunnery station guess was pre-multi-crew.)
Theory crafting is fun.
You can already do this with in VR!
Great idea!
Even if all that exists is concept art.
And I can imagine they wouldn't render interiors that can't be used yet.
In fact, on some ships when changing weapons in outfitting it appears the interiors are totally empty/hollow.
But I for one would love to walk around my ship's interior. That said, while flying there isn't much time to do that (without an auto-jump sequencer) as I avoid stations over 5k ls.
Even if all that exists is concept art.
And I can imagine they wouldn't render interiors that can't be used yet.
In fact, on some ships when changing weapons in outfitting it appears the interiors are totally empty/hollow.
But I for one would love to walk around my ship's interior. That said, while flying there isn't much time to do that (without an auto-jump sequencer) as I avoid stations over 5k ls.
Given how incredibly slow FDev is about updates and upgrades, I highly doubt they will be putting rooms into the ship months to years prior to us being able to experience space legs. Because what would happen if we have those rooms and never get them? Can you see lawsuits developing from that? I can.
+1, I like this....and I would also be spending way to much time on the layout of all my ships, I'm a ship hoarder!
I did in an Asp a long time ago, at least out the side of the cockpit into the space by the thruster assembly (I hit a wall trying to reach the door). Looking back through the ship I didn’t see much of anything, it looked like empty space mainly, like when only one side of a polygon has texfures.
One of the streamers I used to watch did this. It was an empty space.
We don't know the internal layout of most ships. They only showed a few interiors with the concept art.
