Hello everyone,
I have reports to share about the progress with F8Us / F-8s avionics overhaul. Firstly, I want to exprress thanks to Dtmdragon for his excelelnt work with F8Us / F-8s avioincs overhaul, I am using his updated cockpits and avioics as base to enchant his works. With the new improved gunsight and further enchant the visual part of radar scope and contents init.
First, I want to talk about tilted glasses, in my opinion, it is most important features. It make the big world of difference with visiblity, and this is why I love working with new cockpits amde by mods, because they usually provide texture to tweak the reflector or HUD glasses. However, TK's version of cockpits, in other ahnd, does not have texture nor 'polygon' in front of reflectors. Because of that, I am unable to adjust the tilt of glass.
However, I thought of one interesting, workable solution to this; By adding 'area of tilt' in front of gunsight while ensuring there are gap between tilt area and border of refelctor / HUD glass. Becasue when you tilt the camera / pan around, the elements of 'HUD', always move around with your camera (gyro effects).
However, to show you the difference;
Gunsight without tilted area:
Now with tilted area in front of gunsight:
(NOTE: The instruction on how to remove the 'tilted' area and restore the gunsight system back to COCKPIT.ini based method will be provided., in case if anyone does not like the tilt area in reflector. The issues with this method is that, when you shift the view angle away from refelctor, sometime it will show the 'double gunsight' effect becasue there are two gunsight overlapping each other. I am stuck with this issues due to SF2 mmodding limitation, however If anyone know the solution to this, please let me know.)
(Mark 11 Mod 1)
(Mark 11 Mod 7)
now next is updated radar in 1024 (tehre is also 512 version) and noe that 'Y" symbols now aligns with the horizontal bar when plane is level:
AN/APS-67 (F8U-1E / F-8B and F8U-2 / F-8C)
TW style version
Next, AN/APG--83 (F8U-NE / F-8D)
TW STYLE VERSION
The next series of F8Us / F-8s are being worked on.
Eagle114th