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AS F8 Crusader panel

Jafo

Jafo

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Thought it was 'timely' to post a new thread - specific to the Crusader I'm working on, rather than appending to the Voodoo one.

It's been a 'long road' and the reasons for it was the current FSX compatible panel didn't look to clever in a widescreen resolution [I'm at 1680x1050] and some of the gauges were NQR.

Here's what it was as originally loaded....

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...and starting from a squillion odd images and my old F105 panel's canopy details...I ended up with this one below.

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Today I've been convincing the gauges to show the right fuel quantities and got the dump and refuel switches to work.
Bit lost with the Oxy ones tho....faked them to the fuel as I've seen done with/by others.

Canopy eject handle just opens the canopy...mirrors 'work' as do the reflected ones in the glass. There's a leading slat droop warning 'strip' that I may yet set to display flap states...as that's sort of 'close'.
Oh, and that folded map is 'real'....it's March, 1968 EVC 500-1 [S.E.A.] Laos, Thailand, Vietnam..... how's that fer detail? ...;)
 
Jafo said:
Thought it was 'timely' to post a new thread - specific to the Crusader I'm working on, rather than appending to the Voodoo one.
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Go for it Jafo! Your Demon VC has made that little bird one of my favorites to scoot around in.
 
Frank, yep, it's the Alphasim F8.
By the time I rework it to widescreen it ends up a 'little different'.

Just about done with the 2D panel...although I'd never found a decent photo of the canopy side rails in the Thud to put into the AS 105 ...so likewise these ones look skungy [as they're the same ones]. It's the only bit of my 105 I'm not happy with.

Anyway...with the Crusader...I have a correctly located pitch trim indicator...some hud glass...gear lever and tailhook sw....flap indicator where the edge-droop indicator would be....
Next step is to see what I can do to make the VC look like the 2D...;)

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Yes....ah, the good old days....;)
Original panel had one so I left it in cos it looked 'trendy'...;)
Before I up this revision I'll pop in the gunsight reticle I've used in the other panels....keep the purists onside...;)
 
Fiddling with the F8 panel gave me new ideas re my Thud one....so I've been on a new tangent redoing bits of its ribbon gauges...removing the last of the 'digital numbers'....and instead barrels all the way...;)

Part of the reasoning was that to date all of the modding had been technically on a single-layer panel image bitmap....and now it's been 'split' to be a psp file of 22 layers ...so much easier to alter and improve on...;)
 
The default VC has details that would remain at odds with the style of Panel I setup for the 2D. The latter is a blank canvas [literally] whilst the former is constrained by the modelling. The method used to create the VC in the first place dictates potential successes of any mods....but I'll be giving it a bit of a go...;)
 
Still off on a tangent....

This is for the olde 105 FS2004 AS....I was making it look like a 'B'...about 5 years ago...to do T'birds and Prototype paints...and needed a panel to suit....dug it out again to improve....

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....so primitive compared with the 'D' ....;)
 
Want to add the Viggen to the list?

General data here.

Cockpit photos here.

Base aircraft? The Alphasim offering seems to be the only game in town.

Dave
 
dhazelgrove said:
Want to add the Viggen to the list?

General data here.

Cockpit photos here.

Base aircraft? The Alphasim offering seems to be the only game in town.

Dave
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You know....I suppose I 'should'....afterall, I currently own 2 cars ....one's a SAAB 2007 9.3 V6 Aero convertible and the other's a '91 9000 Turbo ....;)
 
Again with the distractions.....just redid all 20 Annunciator lights for the Thud....trying to get them to 'match' the true functions..... more xml ....gee I hate xml....;)

It'd be OK if it wasn't so 'trial-and-error' ...;)
 
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Took several days to get the Annun looking 'right' .... clearly I have Ice issues and my C of G is off [got that to show up by dumping fuel...so it does work]. I started doing this cockpit in 2010.....here's how it started....

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....kinda why it took so long....;)
 
usafvet said:
Jafo,

Any word on how soon these panels (F-8) will be completed? Just curious....:kilroy:
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Once I get back from my infatuation with the F105 panel reworking....am still refining a LOT of it....and some of that will benefit the 8 as well...;)
 
Here's a recent....of the F105....working at night....getting illuminations 'right'.
I now have a 'floating' sight in the hud [as well as a static one]...and every single switch/knob/light/dial does 'something' [several just 'turn']...;)

Means I can incorporate a few new ideas into the F8 ...;)

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