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I love this a/c i think it is pretty great but when i go to fly it and look out the vc everything is black except out the HUD.
has anyone else had this problem and is there anyway to fix it?

This is the download if anyone was confused
FSX Team FS KBT F18F Super Hornet WarHawks Package
http://www.simviation.com/simviation/st ... 64&page=22

Hello, and welcome to SimV!

You are suffering from the dreaded alpha channel problem in the VC glass texture. This is a quite common problem with FS9 aircraft that have been ported to FSX.

There is a way to fix it though, you will need the program: DXTBMP. it is free, here is a link: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia ... TBmp.shtml . Next you will need to find the texture for the VC glass, usually called by that or something similar.

Now load that texture into DXTBMP

Next

I cant find the one im supossed to change
can u help me find the right one?

Downloading it now, give me a couple of minutes to take a look at it.

ok cool thank you so much

OK, for each of the texture folders in the F-18 aircraft folder itself, you need to do the above process to the following files:

sh_vc02.bmp

sh_vc03_L.bmp

Do that and let me know what you have then.  ;)

Found a couple of more:

image1_L.bmp

pan1_L.bmp

pan2_L.bmp

thank you so much trying it now

are u sure i should do this one
sh_vc02.bmp?
bc everyother one has _L on it

Yep, I just did this myself, and everything looks correct now, except for the VC glass itself, where at first the entire cockpit controls and all were blacked out, this is the same problem you had, correct?

The VC glass is going to require another trick. But one step at a time.

i wasnt so much concerned with the gauges
i was more worried about the VC glass :-?

Working that problem now.

ok thank you so much

so anything new?
:-/