A-4 LABScounter Mod

[+Crusader]

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A-4 LABScounter Mod

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This mod converts the currently not working LABS counter into a Distance to Waypoint counter for the A-4C, E and F .

 

Instructions are included in the zip-file.

 

MJ

 

Edit Jan. 2016 :
screenshot picture taken from the A-4C_A SFP1 Malvinas/Flaklands Mod by Ariell

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• Submitter
  Crusader
• Submitted
  06/29/2006
• Category
  Jet Cockpits

 

[alexis99]

I installed this on the vanilla A-4C, but the distance counter reads from right to left rather than left to right. So 107 miles reads 701, whilst 89 miles reads 980.

Do you have any advice on how to fix this?

[+Cliff7600]

Yes,

1 / the most efficient way to deal with the issue is to rename 2 meshes in the cockpit 3D model.
You can do that using an Hex editor tool, but if you mess things up it won't work anyway...

"labs_dig3" must become "labs_dig1"
"labs_dig1" must become "labs_dig3"

2 / Maybe somebody had already uploaded fixed 3D model in the download section (? )
but I'm not sure as it's TW stock material.

3 / Other way is to use each labs_dig(X) mesh for a distance, using value=0.1 and value=0.01 in the cockpit.ini file
So it means 3 instruments instead of only one, but it's basic ini editing.

4 / PM me lol

Edited March 2, 2019 by Cliff7600

[alexis99]

Thanks, Cliff, but I'm not going to get into Hex editing. I was hoping that someone had already fixed it. There is no upgrade as I only downloaded it last week.

It seems that I'm the only one who noticed it since 2006.

[alexis99]

Okay, thanks to Cliff this works now. There was nothing wrong with the file.

I mistakenly put the LOD file directly in the aircraft folder, and not in the cockpit folder.

It's the first time I had got a LOD, so assumed it went alongside all the INIs.

My bad. Apologies all round.