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AS RF101C Voodoo panel

Jafo

Jafo

SOH-CM-2024
After the PhantomII and Demon panels for the old AS planes....I got into the CF101B, F101C, and ultimately the RF101C Voodoo panels for the AS vers.

Here's the results of the first 2...
Before...
View attachment 10196

...and after...in 1680x1050 res...
View attachment 10197

The 'c'...before...
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...and after...again 1680x1050...
View attachment 10199

Now, with the RF101C ....I'm stuck with a deficit of decent images [the others were a doddle due to good sources]

Driving me bonkers finding something even half-decent....best so far is...

View attachment 10200
...whose res is crap...and details fuzzy...even gauge type and style is iffy.

Any help out there would be appreciated....then I could upload them all, and yes, the VCs are changed to 'suit' ...;)
 
Thanks Jafo, brilliant work. The Voodoo has always been one of my favourites since I was boy in the '50's, and the AS pits were always a bit weak compared with more up-to-date offerings. Looking forward to these though!

Will have a look for some material on the RF when I can.

DaveQ
 
Thanks, Dave....any help will be great...;)

Meanwhile, I managed to 'do my own' LABS gauge for the 101C .... not sure if it's really displaying what it is supposed to...but it does 'stuff' and looks the part....graphics are from a 100 photo so close enough to get away with....and it means I'm not using a gau.

View attachment 10221 ...now if I can just find a good pic of the Fuel gauge to know what it's actually doing I'll make one of those too. The one in the pic is a ring-in ...;)

Here's what it should be....View attachment 10222
 
Oh well....solved the fuel gauge issue with some 'extrapolation'....
Made sense of the inner numbers...still no clue what the outer ones are...but coded it to suit the inners...;)

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Now...
...back to that darn RF.....
 
Jafo said:
Made sense of the inner numbers...still no clue what the outer ones are...but coded it to suit the inners...;)
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If there's a selector button: Button not pressed = internal tanks on inner scale, button pressed = droptanks on outer scale (or the other way around)?
 
Bjoern said:
If there's a selector button: Button not pressed = internal tanks on inner scale, button pressed = droptanks on outer scale (or the other way around)?
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I was thinking that....except there's no button adjacent. I've a feeling it might be simply different units....gallons vs pounds....maybe.
I think the inner reads to 14,600 lbs...;)

Edit....
am going with the pic I have [unless something comes along that's better]...and will just try to clean it up as much as I can...here's the RF with eons yet to go...;)

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I'm slowly getting there....the hole is the f16 radar...it's a gau so needs to be loaded/approved...which isn't happening when I'm modding in-flight...would you believe screencap no. 187....? ....;)
Anyway...only bit 'pinched' from the original AS 2D is the fire-warning panel [top-right] ...the rest is a rework from that ONE photo.
What I need is details re the weapons panel bottom left...so that bit too can be made 'clearer'...and also whether the actual panel hood is quite so weird to the left and right sides...;)

View attachment 10272
 
Beautiful work Jafo, loved the F-4(s) pits. Any chance of you working your magic on the RF/F-8 Crusader by AS? Just a question....
 
usafvet said:
Beautiful work Jafo, loved the F-4(s) pits. Any chance of you working your magic on the RF/F-8 Crusader by AS? Just a question....
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F8's a possible....again the vintage I kinda like...;)
Meanwhile....still 'resting' from the Voodoos....and getting into the TSR2.
I need to dig up more info on specific gauges and ideally what button really does what. The original is now converting to 1680 wide...but the original gauges are a little too 2-dimensional...;)
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Haven't found much....really need a definitive listing of what's what....

Here's where it's at.... at least it has a legit stick .... whacked in the ARS4 radar....the popup control panel pops over the Annunciator....nice and big.

VC Hud bg is a 'mirror'...not transparent...seems reacting to a light fx.

Might just throw some gauge and glass reflections in and leave it 'til I can get more info...;)

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Jafo,

Would you ever consider upgrading a civil aircraft - though this one also has a military variant? It's the IRIS "Easter Eggs" Bombardier Sentinel/Global Express (native FSX) released last year. Only decent VC for it is from he default FSX CJ. I pimped it with some various gauges and some modded vc lighting but still I find the panel background bitmaps kind of dull (nowhere near as sharp as the ones for the default 737-800, by way of comparison). The warning lights and overhead in particular need sharpening up. Also be cool to working FMC's as the "rojas" 737 vc's do (check over at simviation).

expat




http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i239/DavidT_photo/vpcep.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/Montie/FSX/sentineleagleeye2_zpsfaf377ef.jpg
 
expat...hi...
Gotta say 'eek' to glass cockpits. Invariably the xml is too long/complex to fathom. [for me].
Normal steam gauges tend to be a product of their size [created size ] ....and thus clarity...or whether they may be muddied by alphas, shadows etc coded in. I haven't got my head around how some gauges have day and night graphics...and some don't ...and what that really means to their outcome....quality-wise...but I imagine some of it may be legacy work from older sims.

Each panel I mess with...I get more ideas [and clues]....and ...at my current rate of enlightenment I expect to be 'pretty good' at it around an hour or two AFTER I shuffle off this mortal coil....;)
 
Jafo,

Am really enjoying your very good - and fast - work on all the military panels and gauges. In the case of the GEX I have only an interest in doing something with the panel background bitmaps rather than the gauges. Being a useless twit at painting I can get as far as some crude GIMP functions but mostly MS Paint (LOL) and have had bad results trying to "repaint" a vc panel background bitmap in the past (very yucky .. ). Was wondering if you had any tips or techniques on how to sharpen up the resolution of the backgrounds the way others here have done in the past with different aircraft.

expat
 
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