Actually I think it would be a very nice effect.. just render it in the blue green hud color up by the status.. make it rotate or something.. perhaps make your own ships icon rotate as well.. so its like looking at a model of the damage your doing. :)

I was thinking about having a 3D VDU of a ship if targeted.

Good job on the health bar.

Now I was thinking if its possible to have a 3D picture of the object that is targeted.

Why? The name is enough to let you know what kind of ship your up agianst. A 3d veiw would only clob up the HUD and do practicly nothing. Maybe it might come into use if vendetta ever becomes a big enough game to mount differnt ship varients and visual weapons slots. But that only matters on large ships with millions of different loadouts.

Wow...I think I hear the sound of Framerates plummeting...
Why not just have a little piece of text that says what type of ship it is...

"Why not just have a little piece of text that says what type of ship it is..."

Because you could target cargo, astroid as well.

It could be 3D wireframe.

Well I was ssking for the 3D VDU(wireframe or not) so I could tell if someone was engaging me or not.

Or we could have a toggable camera which could be turned on or off to actually see the view of the target.

I think that would be neat, I even made that in 'my hud' a couple of weeks ago.

Or you can have a low detail version of the object targeted if someone thinks that their frame rate is going to get plummeted.

How's about just an 'image'?

An image of a target? How am I going to tell if someones going to engage me? Seeing a picture is not gonna do anything.

We could toggle from image to 3d VDU.

you could have a 3d model in a gif animation, that would look cool