Advanced Targeting

[RPC]

So I'm on IRC and Resident-Pyromaniac has an awesome suggestion:

Advanced Targeting.

The idea is that we could target individual segments and see their damage, instead of having the generic "most damaged armor segment in an unknown location".

One question though:
Is it doable?
I have do idea how to mess around with the targeting nor do I think we could add a small dockscreen to replace the normal targeting HUD.

A workaround would be to make the damaged armor segment vent atmosphere to indicate damage, but I don't know the feasibility of that either.

[digdug]

it's definitely doable.
Put an overlay with a sort of health-bar for each segment around a ship. Probably a good idea to add and remove the overlays only for the targeted ship, since there would be a lot of armor segments to probe and overlays to update if you do it for every ship around the playership.
Ask Prophet, since he did something similar for showing the health of autons using overlays.

[RPC]

Sweet! I'll ask Prophet then.

[alterecco]

If you look at the damage overlay part of VUI you should see an example of how to use overlays like that.
If you can not find it, let me know and I will make a paste for you.

[shanejfilomena]

damaged armor segment vent atmosphere

THIS is exactly what I would LOVE to see in a game ( Far beyond my simple mind to do ) But I would THINK that if a ship is venting, then Physics might dictate it as a THRUSTER effect to the ship: It would keep a pilot and the AI on it's toes if you did THAT!!!