Azrapse: Thanks for the insightful post!

Currently, the game has a cockpit interior to at 1:1 scale with the ship exterior, (and of course, matches the geometry of the ship exterior). I don't know how claustrophobic the Y-Wing cockpit will feel in VR. It kind of feels so in the movies. But the BTL-S3 Y-Wing is a two-seater, so it should have plenty of room behind the pilot for the optional turret gunner (an optional coop mode I wish to implement some day)

Also, everything in the game follows a 1:1 scale with their "real world" counterparts.
That gave us problems already with long distances and loss of precision with the game engine float coordinates, but we solved that already by making the game player-centrist (the world moves around the player, instead of the player moving around the world). Now I am happy that I didn't choose to solve that by scaling down the world, that was the other possibility. That would have given us problems with VR, as you said.

The cockpit I made has only the front dashboard detailed. The rest are flat surfaces that I didn't bother detailing because they weren't going to be used at this stage. However, the game is supposed to allow the pilot to look around, we had to create the full interior sooner or later anyway. Also, the gunner station should have some detailing for later, but which instruments the gunner needs is something that is yet to be determined.

I am not sure how will we do with all the dead-angles, though. In the original game, when you look at a direction where the line of sight is blocked by the cockpit body, instead, you are shown some kind of monitor displaying what looks to be the footage of a camera mounted on the exterior of the cockpit, towards that angle.
For example, if you look up by pressing the keypad 5, since the Y-Wing ceiling is totally solid, you get a monitor labeled "UP".
How can that be done with VR, I don't know. I can think on solutions, like making the cockpit become transparent, like in the "Contact" movie. But that sounds too otherworldly.
A panel that slides don't in front of the pilot's eyes showing the view outside? It would look okay on a flat monitor, but I bet it would be disconcerting in VR stereoscopic view.

ender910: Sure thing. I can't take all the credit though, I just happened to be lucky enough to know someone who knows VR. Sounds like it should work easier than expected. Assuming my friend didn't forget to mention anything, then you'll have a lot less to worry about on the VR-front. And I definitely like the idea of a cooperative Y-Wing crew (something I've only ever experienced briefly in Battlefront 1).

One question though, wouldn't making the game player-centric cause some issues for multiplayer? I seem to recall Totally Games experiencing similar issues when they started working on X-Wing vs Tie Fighter: [url=http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Wars:_X-Wing_vs._TIE_Fighter]http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Wars:_X-Wing_vs._TIE_Fighter[/url]

Also not sure if you can see the keyboard in VR (I get the impression you'd have to have a pop up display either in the game or through the VR's software interface). I'm not sure how vital that would be though, since it's fairly common for players to have to learn most of their controls and memorize it a bit.

ender910: One question though, wouldn't making the game player-centric cause some issues for multiplayer? I seem to recall Totally Games experiencing similar issues when they started working on X-Wing vs Tie Fighter: [url=http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Wars:_X-Wing_vs._TIE_Fighter]http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Wars:_X-Wing_vs._TIE_Fighter[/url]

Det_Bullock: VR with a keyboard is impossible, either a HOTAS or a gamepad are necessary as you can tell the buttons by touch on those, games like House of The Dying Sun use radial menus also because of this, it's a way to guarantee that every control is on the game paeripheral of choice without needing to use the keyboard so that you can play in VR without hitting the wrong button.

Azrapse: Not really. It's a little hard to explain, but the game logic isn't player - centric. Only the visual stuff is. That will, hopefully, be no problem in multi-player.

scotsdezmond: I never thought about that before, but you're absolutely right - the briefing rooms are seemingly quite small in the DOS versions. It's like briefing in a supply cupboard, as if Ackbar would start grumbling before every briefing: scotsdezmond:

Azrapse: I always wondered... are Dodonna and Ackbar really there at the briefing room, behind a lectern, or are those just their holograms, and those are hologram projectors?
I wondered that because the thing over their heads that is similar to the lectern looks a bit unnecessary if it is just a lamp.

FekLeyrTarg: A very interesting point about the briefing room beim cramped. I never thought about that.

Maybe the design I came up with can be tweaked to be much smaller and cramped. Or maybe I'll come up with something based entirely on the DOS briefing room.

Edit:
Ok, I've made something differently:
I used the briefing room of X-Wing-DOS and made a few tweaks to it, like changing the lectern and coming up with how the back part could look like. Otherwise I stayed true to the original this time.

https://abload.de/img/briefingconcept2birdvkjs2y.jpg[/img]

scotsdezmond: I had an idea regarding other pilots sitting in on the briefing: rather than just a random number of pilots, an option could be to set this dependent on the number of craft in the player's FG?

I don't think this number is stored in the briefing file, but given the small size of the mission files themselves, I wouldn't expect a big performance hit by checking the actual mission file at the same time as loading the briefing, to determine which FG the player is in; read the count of craft; and have (count - 1) other pilots show up - in this scenario, this could be explained as a per-FG briefing.

Or, if preferring larger numbers, the above could be extended to count all friendly fighter-level craft in the mission instead?

(Or this idea may just be going overboard and completely unnecessary :) )