I just replaced the window with the TOS viewscreen. Now that Pike's show is being filmed, it would be great to see the classic viewscreen.
Does such a thing exist?
I'm not talking about getting a camera and having to deal with cellsens or any of those programs. I'm talking about a microscope with a high resolution LED screen instead of ocular eyepieces so that you can operate the scope without sitting in that ergonomically unfavorable position we all find ourselves in.
...at least not in first contact situations. Every spacefaring polity is going to be using different software to encode and transmit AV data (maybe there is a trade in such things, but younger species will not have access to that market), so two ships from different nations meeting each other for the first time should not be able facetime each other straightaway.
Unless Starfleet computers since way back in the 22nd century have been powerful enough to reverse engineer the data and write a perfect codec in, at most, a few seconds.
(Or do I just not know how communications tech works IRL?)
Watch out for the barrel, Commander!
After taking a few months off of STO, I came back recently to find that my nice Odyssey-class viewscreen has been replaced by the chunky yellow one from the old Galaxy class warehouse/bridge/convention hall (complete with blurry all-blue launch-era LCARS) in space conversations. After checking on a few other characters, it seems that all of their viewscreens have been replaced by generic faction ones.
Was this an announced change? A bug? A stealth adjustment so that they don't have to make unique screens anymore?
It took me a long time to come to terms with bridges being totally ignored (and I still can't bring myself to fly a ship that doesn't have access to a decent bridge), so to lose this last small connection to the interior of my ship is kind of upsetting. Especially given how jarringly ugly the Fed default screen is.
It has only been a minor thing, but I appreciate them fixing the view scree windows in space dialogue. It's these little things that mean a lot.
Enterprise Bridge Viewscreen: Discovery. The shape aesthetic looks Klingon. From previous iterations, it was usually rectangular. The "normal" shape was indicative of Starfleet ships, and "funky" shape was indicative of alien ships. The starship Discovery also had a similar shaped viewscreen.
Title. Been looking at mods all day and putting together a bunch I really like, and I noticed quite a few add combat capabilities at quite a long range. While the idea of being able to fire at range is nice, it also sucks not being able to readily see the action.
I came across an old telescope mod, but it was last updated in 2015 and has since broken. Tried to search up for some other mods for zoom/viewscreen, but only got stuff that was either broken or short-range. So that leads me here, to see if any of you fellas know of a good mod that would fit.
just a little something I noticed while idly watching, in TNG S3E9, Picard talks with a dude on another ship, and the camera pans to the conversation from the side.
if the screen were 2D, the perspective of the face on the screen would be distorted, but it would still face the viewer. however, he clearly looks directly at Picard, and the perspective changes to his head from the side as the camera shifts.
here's an image for reference: https://imgur.com/a/w3XVf just thought this was interesting and not explicitly mentioned before, but obviously a deliberate choice.
Also has there ever been any propulsion system where it operates in only one corner of the ship? Instead of having nacelles. Tbh I'm going covid crazy and am going to pretend my 10x10m apartment is a shuttlecraft, with sleeping quarters and a holodeck (I cleaned out the spare room and put a psvr in it). The fictional warp drive would have to be in the basement, only it's very un-starship like. Half is head high but the rest goes uphill because it hasn't been finished.
I've read about 10 or so Halo novels. Reading the Nylund books I got the impression viewscreens were actual screens. Now reading the Kilo Five trilogy, it feels like a synonym for window.
I'm not familiar with the term so I'm wondering what the intended use is. We do see windows on larger cruisers like the PoA and SoF so..
I notice the Jem'Hadar cannot wear their factions viewscreen, even though almost everyone else can.
Not sure if this is a bug or not, but it oughta be.
Been a Trek fan for as long as I can remember, and grew up watching TNG. Yet somehow I never noticed before that the viewscreen on the Enterprise D displays images in 3D!
I was watching S4E11 (Data's Day) last night and noticed that, when the camera showed the viewscreen from a side-angle, the image was perspective-correct.
Presumably, it's more like looking through a window than seeing an image on a flat screen.
Maybe this is common knowledge, but I found this pretty mind-blowing!
So I'm in the middle of working on some vector files, and all of a sudden the main workscreen has frozen. It's not updating to show that I select anything, turn on or off layer visibility, or anything like that. I can click and drag to pan around, but once I stop dragging it snaps back. The program itself is not locked up or frozen, just the viewer. What's going on and how do I fix it?
If you look at the TOS Enterprise Physical model, you can see the turbolift shaft directly be hind the bridge of the Enterprise. This is to be expected, however the Enterprise bridge set has the turbolift relocated a bit to the side. This gives the bridge a off centered orientation, when you like it up with the physical model.
Discovery maintains this layout, however we have a problem. The Bridge Window. How the heck does that thing face forward compared to the ship as a whole, yet remain straight in front of the captains chair?
