Gunsight Funnies

[blackbird686]

Hey Sportsfans,

How may times have you found a really great CFS2 panel for a plane you just put together or downloaded and the gunsight is either too high, too low or too small?
Does anyone out there know how to move the gunsight up, or down on the panel bitmap so that the whole sight fills the hud glass and the site is accurate? Does the "Views" or "View Forward" section in the panel.cfg have anything to do with this?

I tried shuffling the numbers in the View Forward section but  it didn't seem to change anything.

If anyone has any ideas on how to fix this little problem, please clue me in.

thanx in advance,
   -- Tom
the Blackbird

[gr31]

 In many cases, as is the case with my bombsights, it is part of the ".BMP" file that is the panel background. If you think you can modify that with an editor it might work. Some of them can be part of a gauge and in that case would be much more difficult to modify. You screen resolution may also effect this so try that first.

Ken

[blackbird686]

Thanks for the reply!

I have several "bombsight panels" and you're right about the actual sight being part of the panel bitmap. As is the case with some other 3rd party panels,  I can move the "gunsight.bmp" up and down on the "panel.bmp" simply by hitting "F4". It probably isn't ment to work that way but it does. I figured that the points that determine the position of the gunsight.bmp on the panel.bmp had to be in the "panel.cfg" file. Correct me if I am wrong here but you can change gunsight.bmp's and have the modified .bmp fit in the hud glass of your trusty ol' Corsair Hog, just as the old .bmp did. My problem is specific to just one or two panels, I'll look at the resolution and see if that helps.

Thanks again for the info,
 ~Tom
the Blackbird

[gr31]

[quote]Thanks for the reply!

I have several "bombsight panels" and you're right about the actual sight being part of the panel bitmap.

[Hagar]

Hey Sportsfans,

How may times have you found a really great CFS2 panel for a plane you just put together or downloaded and the gunsight is either too high, too low or too small?
Does anyone out there know how to move the gunsight up, or down on the panel bitmap so that the whole sight fills the hud glass and the site is accurate? Does the "Views" or "View Forward" section in the panel.cfg have anything to do with this?

Depending on how the panel is set up the position of the default gunsight in relation to the panel BMP is defined by the SIZE_Y= value in Panel.cfg. The sight can be tuned by editing the VIEW_FORWARD_DIR= parameter.

"bombsite panels"

The correct description is bombsight. This is a bomb site. A very common sight when I was growing up in the '50s.

[blackbird686]

[quote]

I hope at least one of those "bombsite panels" you have is the "Austin Bomb Site" that I made!

Yep! I have that bombsite in several of my B-25's and a really nice A-26K. Nice work Buddy!!

I have begun to tinker a bit with some of the numbers and have been able to raise the gunsight.bmp up so that the tracers show up in the bulls-eye of the sight itself. The actual gunsight sits a little higher than being excatly in the hud glass, but I'd rather have it be accurate, than asthetic. You never know when you're goung to be surrounded by a pack of Germans in their Bf-109's

Thanks again for all of the tips and info, your help is very much appreciated

cheers~
  Tom

[blackbird686]

You are right, Hagar. I stand corrected.

As is always the case, my curiosity gets the best of me sometimes. Where was that pic of the "Bomb Site" you posted taken?

cheers~
  Tom

[Hagar]

[quote]
You are right, Hagar. I stand corrected.

As is always the case, my curiosity gets the best of me sometimes. Where was that pic of the "Bomb Site" you posted taken?

cheers~

[blackbird686]

Funny, it bears a striking resemblance to my neighborhood. (Well not exactly )

I can't spell anyhow, so there you go.

Cheers, man~
       Tom