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Plea for advice re/ Cockpit Canopies. (Read 674 times)

Jul 9^th, 2003 at 5:51am

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Hi,

??? ??? ??? I'm a newcomer to Flight sims and have only been using CFS for a about a month.

A couple of other discs were bundled with my main disc, they were "The Luftwaffe Collection" and "RAF 200o" being a Luftwaffe buff, it was probably this that attracted my attention to CFS in the first place.

However... many of the canopies of these aircraft were black when I installed them. Would someone be kind enough to explain, using very short words, how to make them fully transparant - I like to see the pannel while I'm flying.

I found the description of how to do this with newly installed single aircraft on this site - BUT am unsure as how I can proceed with the ones on the discs.

I hope it is possible, because flying the He111 must be a real experience with it's great glasshouse of a cockpit!

Many thanks to the people that take the trouble to read through my ramblings,

all the best,
Ken Attwood,
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Reply #1 - Jul 9^th, 2003 at 6:45am

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Hi Ken. I'm assuming by "canopies" you mean the panels. Check out my updated CFS Panel Clinic. http://www.simviation.com/lair/CFSpc.htm
I think this should explain the problem & help you fix it. Try this first.
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Note: If you have this problem with panels of all imported aircraft please try this first. Find COMBATFS.CFG in the CFS main folder. Open COMBATFS.CFG in Notepad & scroll down until you see the PANEL_MASKING_OFF= entry under [PREFS]
It should look like this: PANEL_MASKING_OFF=0
If the entry is any different change it to PANEL_MASKING_OFF=0 Exit Notepad saving changes.
Check it out in Free Flight to see if that fixed it. This simple tweak could well solve the problem. If not, please read on.

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Reply #2 - Jul 9^th, 2003 at 11:22am

section31001 Offline
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Thanks,

I'll pluck up the courage to try this now that I know that it will work with aircraft already installed.

Ken Attwood,
Cornwall, UK. (Not a part of England)

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Reply #3 - Jul 9^th, 2003 at 1:45pm

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You shouldn't have a problem. Nothing much can go wrong. Make sure to exit the sim before trying to edit any files, especially COMBATFS.CFG. If you mess it up completely, simply Uninstall/Install CFS1

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Reply #4 - Jul 11^th, 2003 at 3:47am

section31001 Offline
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Thanks again, Hagar,

Cheesy

It worked

!

The view from the nose of me He111 is fantastic!

All the best,
Ken Attwood,
Cornwall, UK (Not a part of England).

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Reply #5 - Jul 11^th, 2003 at 3:54am

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Ken. Great news indeed. Glad you fixed it. Wink

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