The texture file for the VC glass needs to be modified in an editing program like PSP or Photoshop, I'm tweaking and testing it now, if you want, I can just send you the file or I can upload it here at the V and you can just download it from there.

Bad news, I cannot get that darn glass to go clear for nothing, I have modified every texture in the folder and saved everthing having to do with the VC in every format possible and it still stays black .

Call to designers : Any one know how to fix the KBT F-18 glass? This is not like all the other easily fixed blacked out VCs. Is it possible that the VC glass texture is part of the model file itself? If it is, I imagine that there will be no possible way to adjust this one for FSX.
  I have done this many times with plenty of other planes and always had success, but this one is really stuck in my craw now.
I have also sent KBT an email requesting the name of the file used for the glass, but I don't see how I could have missed it, and a google search has turned up nothing of any value in helping to solve this one.

I sure will, I'm gonna keep trying it, and hopefully will get a response from KBT.

Guys, I have beat my head against the wall trying to fix the black glass in the VC in this aircraft more hours than I care to admit.  If you find a fix, I will also be overjoyed!

charlie

StACAttack wrote on Dec 15^th, 2008 at 3:54pm:

Program is for MDL's not BMP
PS: you hit the "FTP" link no the "URL" link
Yes, very strange, I can't seem to get them to work but the guy who posted them says in the readme he has FSX SP2 and it works fine... does it require accel maybe? I don't have accel and I really want an F-18

ShaneG wrote on Dec 16^th, 2008 at 6:33am:

Just a shot in the blue but maybe this plane doesn't have a "vcglass.bmp" texture? It seems to me (because it shows up pitch black, not even a reflection) that something is missing. I could be wrong but I might send the guy who posted it a quick email this afternoon to see how he got it to work and why it isn't working for us.

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Below is a quote from another forum regarding a similar issue in a different aircraft where removing the glass bmp file made the canopy glass clear.
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I notice that when the war hawks aircraft opens in vc mode, the cockpit is clear for a second, then turns black.  This is probably an indication of the problem, but I haven't figured out just what it means yet.  But getting back to removing texture files, it might be instructive to remove texture files one by one until the file is found that contains the cockpit glass and then work from there to resolve the problem.  Just a thought.

charlie

Shane, I've discovered that if you remove chrome.bmp from the texture folder, it makes the exterior cockpit glass black.  I don't know at this point if that is significant, but I'm working on that angle at the moment.  

charlie