Hello everyone!
Surprisely it did not take me that long time to re-work on the gunsight and I realy like this system very much.
Fromn now on, I will be using 512 x 512 for all gunsight and use it to create various gunsight in differensize in MILs while the image itself remaind the same size.
By using maths to calculate the location of the MILs for each section of gunsight, the edge of 512 x 512 is 150 MILs.
NOTE: For in-game, the gunsight is set to 150 MILs, For example, for A-1C gusnight, whch is 50 MILs, using 150 MILs image (512 x 512), and in-game, by usiign 150 MILs, will show up as 50 MILs. I hope i make sense toy ou.
This, in my opinion works better than re-adjusting MILs for differnt images in differen texture size. That way, all gunsight have the same qquality as each other without having some gunisght hat is higher in quality while some lower quality.
Anyway, this wil give you an idea how I set up template to draw the gunsights:
What you wills ee is red lines for position from center to corner of texture border, which gives me 45 degree. There are three circles: 25 / 50 / 100 MILs
ANd youc an see how Mark 8 gunsight is made:
NOTE: I am using both flight manual and the photo of gunsight recticle to as reference while using the template to create gunsights accurately as possible.
Which results in this:
What I didnot realize before is that the line from Mark 8 actualy start from 25 MILs and end at 150 MILs. That is so interesting!
However, I am very hapy with the result of re-worked gunsight for all aircraft in the current version of SF2 - CAP v0.3 and the next version wil start using the new gunsight / optical sight system. Note you wil see each gunsight being correctly scaled according to gunsight they were designed for. Except for radar gunsight, due to SF2 not having moving gunsight in circule ways, like A-1C and A-4, so they are made in 50 MILs.
Mark 20 Mod 4
Mark 11 Mod 1 (This image includes boht caged and computing leading gunsight)
Mark 11 Mod 7 (This image includes boht caged and computing leading gunsight)
N-9 (Unique version for F-89D)
Unknown gunsight type - A-4 Skyhawk
Unknown gunsight type - F-106 Delta Dart
ASP-3N (MiG-15s and MiG-17s)
I am now back workong on Mark 18 Gunsight for F-86s, along with A-1C and A-4 radar gunsights.
Cheers!