Why didn’t anybody tell me that cockpits can be made to look like this?

http://i.imgur.com/Fu428ZH.png
http://i.imgur.com/VBc6P8M.png

It’s a lot better if you ask me, you can see some detail inside your ship, the original view makes no sense.

Also, while messing around with the resolution i made the npcs talk to me like this
http://i.imgur.com/LL6JEvY.png
I have no idea how i did that, i would like to know if anyone can help me.