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  1. That means, adding or editing instructment is out of questions, therefore I need to look into editing HUD instead and see fi Ican find a way to add "shoot cue" for IRM. Thank you for the notes about the requirement of editing max file for instructment.
  2. Thank you for the reply! Can you explain more about "diamond"? And which aircraft is it used on? I awnt to study their HUD / cockpit.ini files and see if I can implement it on early cold war aircraft, such as F-89 as an example.
  3. Taht is noted. I want to add, I think I remember that in Mirage III series, there is light on right part of HUD, on the frame. When SARH and IR get lock on, green light goes on. I thikn it works with IRM too? We could look into Mirage III cockpits too.
  4. Hello everyone, here is corrected N-=9 optical sight: In-game
  5. Hello Crusader! THank you for the feeedbck and guide. I am looking forward fixing the N-9 Optical sight. The next version of alpha will have corrected N-9 Sights. Cheers!
  6. Hello everyone, F-89J radar scope new texture is now completed. Please note that F-89H will use F-89D's radar scope texture as placeholder. Same thing with both F-89H and J using F-89D's N-9 optical sight as placeholder. The redar texture is based on this image from F-89J flight manual: And the photo: Eagle114th
  7. Hello everyone, The first version of SF2 ACP alpha v0.1 is now released. the link can be found in the first post. I am continuing to work on F-89H / J and series of A-1. I plan to work on F-102s and 106s series after that. Please give me feedback on ACP mods. Thank you for enjying the mods and cheers! Eagle114th
  8. Hello everyone, What took me long time to at least finish one aircraft:s avionics and cockpit is due to researching and searching for the data on the radar. THe first step into any kind of projects is always the challenigng part.. When I get used to it, it will smoother. What i realized is that, an airborne radar from early era of cold wars are almost impossible to find, the specs of it. However, the only way I can find it is through aircraft manual. Unfortunatley I do not have all aircraft manual, such as T.O. 1F-89H-1A and T.O. 1f-89J-1A, so any radar data not yet obtained is an educcated guess based on the evolutionary and understanding the base functions of the radar. I always ledarn new things everyday. However, fortunately I am able to get the hand on F-89D manual that have information on Hughes E-9 ~ AN/APG-40 ~ AN/APA-84 FCS / Radar / Computer. This is WIP of F-89D with new N-9 optical sight and radar scope. Please note, unlke A-1C gunsight, N-9 is stationary opitcal sight that is used as back up, in case the radar is not operational. Eagle114th
  9. UPDATE: To my surprise, there is a way to add radar cluster effects for early cold wawr aircraft radr with does not have "lok down" capability. I am experimenting with it:
  10. Hello everyone! It have been quite busy and interesting research about the old radars. The specs and detailsa bout old radars, such as AN/APG-33 and another are challenging to ffind. I had to use an educated guess after finding a few specs on it, especially when readinga bout the sexperiecnes of pilots with AIM-4s and other ordiannces. This is E-1 + AN/APG-33 which is even older compared to Hughes E-9 FCS. According to P-89 manual, the radar range can be switched between 30,000 and 25,000 yards I believe. Therefore the avionics file was open and it requires a lot of thinking and researching. the very last resort I can use after being uanble to find further details on AN/APG-33 is war thunder information, such as radar search angle limitation and other data. I am continuing to improve the semi-realism experience with old radar and it is not perfect. At least, the radar is not as powerful as F-4 radar. WHat I did with avionics: Tweaked the setting of radar, reduced range to 12 and 15 nm, made the radar search power not as powerful as F-4, takes longer time to search then track, along with another changes. The radar symbols werre-adjusted so there are far fewwer symbols, and no horizontal bar until F-89D with E-6 and AN/APG-40. When F-89s, F-8s, A-4s, and A-1s are finalized, will release the first version of beta.
  11. Hello everyone! NOTE TO MOD: If there is anything taht is not okay to post here, please infor me and I'll fix the post. I ntend to do this ethtically. It have been a logn time since I started checking adn analyzing dll files. I have learned a lota bout analyzing the files. I think I might have found the way to read DLL file and make the list of functions that is used by each DLL. I created the long list of each functions that is called or used in each DLL files. It is inthe file knwn as DLL FILE INFORMATION.txt You will notice most of DLL have teh same function. However, even though they do have asme fucntion, does not mean they always have the same codes or methods within each functions, theortically. And to confirm this if this is actual function, HxD HEX tools aws used to open one of DLL file, then I realized the fucntion, shows up in 'hex dump' part. For example, for dll file: vionics60.dll Inside the note, you'll see: After doing some research, made the notes (They can be incorrect. I have basic experiecnes with C / C++ / C# and several another programming languages.) Let's pick this fucntion QueryPerformanceCounter By opening Avionics60.dll with hex editor, found this: According to hex, the fucntion do exist in "HEX DUMP" section, which tells me I am probably on the right path. I am going to attempt to find more information on each functions using Ghidra. (Crosses my fingers) Eagle114th DLL FILE INFORMATION.txt
  12. I am doing major updates to Avionics in F-89B to C. Here is WIP screenshot of F-89B cockpit:
  13. Hello everyone! THe work on A-1s, A-4s, and F-8s series are now completed. I am currently re-working on F-89s series, I would like to share what I have learned about F-89s which opens me to the world of an avionics. Here is a table created as reference to the avionics used by each variants of F-89s: For quick summary, F-89A to C uses Hughes E-1 FCS along with An/APG-33 radar and A-1C(M) gunsight. F-89D, in other hand, uses improved E-6 FCS with AN/APG-40 plus An/APA-84 computer . It is quite advanced for the time when F-89D aws in operational. It contains the automatic firing solution It also contains the N-9 optical sighthead, which replaces A-1C(M). F-89H uses more advanced E-9 FCS, which also have the tasks of radar and comptuer embedeed in it (Correct me if I am wrong though). I am currenlty am seeking for the flight manula known as T.O. 1F-89H-1A (note, letter 'A" front of number 1 to be specific), whichi proven ot be very challenging to find. If anyone have it, please PM me. I need that, along with T.O. 1F-89J-1A, both flight manual contains information about the E-9 and MG-12 FCS, M169 optical sighthead, and armament, which would be great help for F-89 mod projects. Finally, what i learned about Hughes MG-12 is that, it is modified version of E-9 FCS. Next, here is interesting pat aabout the difference between E-1 and E-6 FCS and the radar scope; This is part of E-1 + An/APG-33 Next, this is radar scope from E-6 RCS + AN/APG-40 + AN/APA-84 Notice that E-6 version does not have long 'line' since it have radar horizontal line and other symbols appearing through that scope. However, I do not have more details on E-9 and MG-12 though. So I plan on using E-6's scope as placeholder for E-9 and possibly MG-12.. Here is what is recenlty discovered from F-89J flight manual that shows the cockpits with MG-12: I do not know the exact color it iss though. This is why I am continuing to do deep digging on the cockpit images and information on E-6, E-9, and MG-12 FCS, along with the optical sighthead, so more accurate reticles can be created for N-9 and M-169 for F-89H and J in SF2
  14. Hello everyone, After a long time searching for informaiton that is quite cahllenging to find; The optical sight used by F-89D and later varaint (?). From what I learned, F-89A to C uses A-1C(M) gunsight while F-89D had gunsight removed and replaced by N-9 optical sight while having E-6 FCS, AN/APG-40 radar, and cAN/APA-84 computer installed. Here is information about N-9 Sight from flight manual: Based on the information about recticle, there is still no information on the colors. so I amusing the standard recticle color used by various gunsight for now as placeholder. Here is rectile: Please let me know if it looks right. Eagle114th
  15. Hello everyone, it said invitaiton invalid, can someone proviade new working link to join our discord channels please? Eagled114th
  16. F-8H (1967) F-8H (1969 and later version)
  17. F8U-2NE / F-8E radar now completed:
  18. (NOTE: I am using the excelelnt radar texture from both SF2 (TW) and dtmdragon F-8 packs as base for radar overhaul for all variants of F8U / F-8.) } Here is picture of F-8D cockpits and radar scope from flight manual:
  19. I am continuing to re-adjust the color to try to bring it closer to actual F_8 radar screen color. I would like to request for feedback on this please.
  20. Please note, I cam not use exact acccurate color becasue if I do, , it appear too bright inside the cockpit. Realistically, the radar scope does not glow in cockpit, only the radar symbols that is being displayed through radar scope screen right? By nature of how lighting / darkness work in SF2 cockpit, had to darken the original texture. Here is an example, if I do not darken the radar scope texture:
  21. Hello everyone! Based on the manual and the picture of F_8B cockpit: Here is in--game screen shot with new texture for radar scope:| (NOTE: I sincerely apologize, I forgot to mention that I am using the excelelnt radar texture from both SF2 (TW) and dtmdragon F-8 packs as base for radar overhaul for all variants of F8U / F-8.)
  22. Hello everyone! It have been long days gathering the information on F-8s and F-89s cockpit, gunsight, FCS / Radar scope / screen, etc... To my surprise, F-89 is quite very interestinga nd complciated inthe evolution of avionics. This is why I find late 40s to 70s avionics to be most interesting! What I realized is that (Always feel to correct me if I make mistakes from my finding on specific aircraft avionics), is that F-89D to J did not have gunsight, unlike early series (F-89A to C). And that F-89A to C uses A-1C(M) gunsight which is same used in early series of F-86s. however, the F-86D and later uses more advanced Hughes FCS (Fire control System) that no longer reply on seperated radar. For example, F-89A and B uses Hughes E-1 FCS with AAN/APG-33, then F-89D use improved E-4 FCS with AN/APG-40 radar and AN/APA-84 computer. Then F-89D uses E-6 FCS ,. F-89H operated with E_9, evnetualy E-9 get get further imprpoved and modified, therefore became MG-12 for F_89J. now the biggest question , how do we 'simulate' E-6, E-9, and MG-12 in SF2? That's the question. However, for F-89A to C, it have some challenges. I want to figure out how to simulate their system. However, at the same time, managed to find the pictures of F-8s cockpit with differnt radar upgrades. The biggest challenge is that most pictures are in black / white, which mean I can not tell which color it is exactly. So I am using an educaated guesses, based on finding the colorized picture I cn find and find the pattern in radar scope color. I want to make sure I have the accurate colors. However, here are screenshot of F8U-1 / F-8A with new Mark 11 Mod 7 gunsight reticles: The radar scope texture is being worked on for F-8 series too. Eagle114th
  23. Hello everyone! F-8 Crusader avionics are being worked on now. Here is updated Mark 11 gunsight And the leading symbols also match the colors of Mark 11 gunsight The radar scope texture is being worked on. When they are completed, the screenshot in F-8s will be posted. Eagle114th
  24. A-1s with new gunsight
  25. The gunisght used by A-1 and A-4 are further polished and they appear to be bit brghter compared to USAF gunsigh. (To anyone who know which Mark gunsight it is, please let me know. I am gathering the information on each gunsight type used by various aircraft.) Eagle114th
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