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Would it be possible to put a photograph in your cockpit? Often pilots are shown to have a photo of a loved one inside their cockpit attached to the dashboard to remind them of home, give them inspiration, etc. Would it be possible to stick one in a cockpit through some kind of texture edit or something? 

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There's a mod by FastCargo that does just that. Check the Downloads section and I would tell you the exact name if I remembered it. Should be in either the SF1 or SF2 section.

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2 hours ago, EricJ said:

There's a mod by FastCargo that does just that. Check the Downloads section and I would tell you the exact name if I remembered it. Should be in either the SF1 or SF2 section.

Found it. Thanks, I'll look into it soon

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Hmm it's not quite easy to figure out, the photo doesn't seem to appear and I believe I've done all the instructions, tried everything I could think of and putting the files around everywhere I could. Anyone used this before that could help out? I'm doing this for the F-4C by the way

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link to file, so others can test, please?

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It's a 1st gen mod

It's based on the "OpenCockpit=TRUE" cockpit with a 3D model photograph as a fake pilot.

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Okay, it's possible
PhotoMod.JPG.d457b2ef62a85f0a0f51101ec5ee8140.JPG

But there's many things to do.

It's a mod designed for 1st generation install, not for SF2. So if you follow the instructions you have 0 chance of making it work.

- use an ini file made for SF2
- create a "Photo" folder for the all files provided in the mod and put it in the Pilots folder
- create a TGA file with the bmp file, and reverse the photo upside down

(Any problem PM me)

Then you can follow the instructions of the mod readme
and it will need tens of "launch game / check /exit game / adjust"  to have the photo where you want it.

If you have a doubt, try with

[Photo]
SystemType=PILOT_COCKPIT
Position=(here the position figures you want)
PilotModelName=
SeatID=3 (or SeatID=2 if it's a single seater, or more 4-5... if it's a multiple crew aircraft or using fakepilot trick)

and you shoud have a pilot floating in the cockpit. The pilot is easier to check than the photo and as there's no LOD indicated it will be the stock pilot by default.
If you don't see the pilot something is wrong.

It's a tricky mod to use, but it's brilliant lol

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3 hours ago, Cliff7600 said:

Okay, it's possible
PhotoMod.JPG.d457b2ef62a85f0a0f51101ec5ee8140.JPG

But there's many things to do.

It's a mod designed for 1st generation install, not for SF2. So if you follow the instructions you have 0 chance of making it work.

- use an ini file made for SF2
- create a "Photo" folder for the all files provided in the mod and put it in the Pilots folder
- create a TGA file with the bmp file, and reverse the photo upside down

(In other words, use this )
PhotoMod_SF2.7z

Then you can follow the instructions of the mod readme
and it will need tens of "launch game / check /exit game / adjust"  to have the photo where you want it.

If you have a doubt, try with

[Photo]
SystemType=PILOT_COCKPIT
Position=(here the position figures you want)
PilotModelName=
SeatID=3 (or SeatID=2 if it's a single seater, or more 4-5... if it's a multiple crew aircraft or using fakepilot trick)

and you shoud have a pilot floating in the cockpit. The pilot is easier to check than the photo and as there's no LOD indicated it will be the stock pilot by default.
If you don't see the pilot something is wrong.

It's a tricky mod to use, but it's brilliant lol

Thanks a ton for all the work you went through for this, I'll try it out sometime and see if I can make it work. Btw about the floating pilot thing, if that's what this displays what do you do to switch it to the photo instead of the pilot when you have it set?

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Unfortunately there seems to be an issue with the link. When I click it, it takes me here 

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If you have the floating pilot it means that the position and all the ini edits are working.
So you change 

PilotModelName=

to 

PilotModelName=Photo

and then you should have the photograph where the floating pilot was, unless something is wrong with the Photo (3D model) folder.

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a Six and an Eight??? nice choice!!

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