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FSX F-18 Tinkering
Sludge:
Spaz...
No worries. Actually was surprised that it worked as well and as easy as it did. And sure, let me give it a try... I think the Hornet files actually have a mirror background image, just like the indexer background I was able to use for this fix. Let me see what I can do.
Laterz
Sludge
SpazSinbad:
Thanks Sludge Old Chum. ;D Vaguely I recall in an Fsim version wayback with 'Flight Deck 1?' maybe (which was hopeless) there was an intention to have a 'flight deck style' mirror in a window on main screen but the whole system was useless (due to the nature of the Flight Sim all those years ago). Being able to see the mirror - or as you say something that looks like the mirror - at same zoom level at whatever distance will be terrific. Then with indexer one is set to look visually for all the cues.
I found that I'll probably have to change screen resolution to see the Virtual HUD more clearly but in most situations I can see the numbers required in the HUD until straightaway when looking only at? Meat Ball Line Up and Air Speed. But youse knew that. :-) Having the AoA indexer in the Virtual HUD is the best! Many thanks for that.
Sludge:
Spaz...
OK, I just got done and the bad news is, I cant get it to work. I got the Meatball background to come up by making a subpanel entry, then redrew a yellow "ball.bmp" for the middle light, saved it in my FA-18_HUD folder, but it was still dark doing carrier work? I think it needs ILS input to work? I confirmed this by flying with the meatball over land (KOKC, 17L, 110.90, DME/ILS), sure enough... I was able to get the "lined up, high" green lights, and the "too low" red lights. However, I couldnt get the ball to move other than just being visible on the lower part of the light track. Not sure how or why, but it didnt work, so I think you may have to do the "brute force" workaround and just find a camera angle that shows the meatball as if you were a crewmember looking aft towards it from about 20 feet astern.
Anyway, if you do come up with this workaround, can you tell me how to do it? I dont know how to manipulate/slew? the FSX set environment camera views so that I can have a "meatball" only view pulled up on my screen? I am able to pull up a view in a view, and tried the LSO spot, but I cant move the viewpoint to behind the actual meatball assembly.
BTW, I know the FSX non-working carrier ILS is a factor, cause there are screen shots within the HUD package that shows "0.5 IC72" on the range and show a hornet lined up for a carrier landing with good needles as well, if you look its called "a07 - final.jpg" and its in the "HUD Docs,Pics" folder of the KBT SuperHornet HUD zip download.
SpazSinbad:
YELLOW SNOW (as in 'don't eat the yellow snow') Sludge, (I'm in Australia so any kind of snow is a real novelty) ;D Thanks for your efforts. I cannot promise anything as my time is taken up making PDFs or editing PDFs adding new info to them (about A4G Skyhawk). When this work ends I may have more time for FSX etc. Still waiting for KAHU A4K Skyhawk FSX work to finish but don't know when (I'm not doing any work - only testing). This KAHU will be good with a proper KAHU HUD and AoA Indexer etc.
Yes I have seen the FSX Blue Angels get amazing camera angles but I guess they use other than FSX or the variation on it (forget name for moment). Perhaps enquiring via FSX Blues website might get you some good camera angle / view information?
What is the new 'panel.zip' by the way? Thanks again. Sludge and others have made some great improvements to the whole usability of the FSX Hornet IMHO.
Sludge:
damn yellow snow anyway?! :P Youre right, dont eat it...
Spaz,
Thanks for the appreciation, and gotta mention Doum too, he worked with me alot when I first started posting here. Gotta throw in some good vibes to WilyCoyote for his inputs as well. Thanks fellas!
And no worries, I just like messing around and figured you might know of how to get the view moved? If figure it out, let me know, if not... Ill still be looking and send it to everyone here. In the .zip file, there's the panel.cfg and a "ball.bmp" that you have to copy/paste into your FA18_HUD folder to bring up the meatball.
Just winding down for the nite and watching football. I may go check the Blue Angels site and see what they have or talk to the fellas over there.
Take Care
Sludge
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