Simviation Forum - Attacking w/ wingmen

Reply #15 - Mar 24^th, 2007 at 5:50am

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burninator wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2007 at 10:22pm:

Well, given the amount of time I have to spend on this, I'll wait if someone else is working on something.

But...who's mike?

You're not paying attention, Mike Eustace is my Fox Four colleague & CFS2 panel designer extraordinaire. I've spoken to him & arranged to get his latest A-26 Invader panel posted on the Fox Four site. Have a little patience & all will be revealed.

I posted a link to the Panel Design section in my previous reply. CfgEdit is the first file posted in that section.

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Reply #16 - Mar 24^th, 2007 at 2:51pm

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Hi All,

The mossie bombsight is a group of gauges. They are installed in the Panel.cfg file.

For the B25 you should get my overhauled stock version it comes with the bombsight installed.
The TBD and the Kate also have it in their panels.

This bombsight only works in full screen mode it will not work in a Window.

Hope this helps,

B24Guy

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Reply #17 - Mar 24^th, 2007 at 10:10pm

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Hagar wrote on Mar 24^th, 2007 at 5:50am:

burninator wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2007 at 10:22pm:

Well, given the amount of time I have to spend on this, I'll wait if someone else is working on something.

But...who's mike?

You're not paying attention, Mike Eustace is my Fox Four colleague & CFS2 panel designer extraordinaire. I've spoken to him & arranged to get his latest A-26 Invader panel posted on the Fox Four site. Have a little patience & all will be revealed.

I posted a link to the Panel Design section in my previous reply. CfgEdit is the first file posted in that section.

Sorry. I looked back through the posts and saw the references to Mike. My bad. I tried to download CfgEdit already and I couldn't get it to work. Like I said, I can't spend too much time on it, so I don't think I'll be able to try and create my own.

Thanks for all your help everyone. I'm new to this stuff, so thanks for being patient!

B-24 Guy - I downloaded the overhauled B-25 and got the bombsight to work!...sort of...The pink and yellow cross hairs move around in a way that doesn't really make sense to me. For example, if I let the aircraft fly level, both sights will eventually move to the top of the screen, so the accuracy was never really dead on, and most of the time was completely off. I tried adjusting the 'angle' knob, but it didn't move at all. Is that supposed to do something? Is the sight behaving as it should? Do you have any instructions for how to use it?

Thanks so much for all your help!

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Reply #18 - Mar 25^th, 2007 at 6:47am

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burninator wrote on Mar 24^th, 2007 at 10:10pm:

I tried to download CfgEdit already and I couldn't get it to work.

I don't know why that should be. Never mind, you can be the first to try Mike's A-26 panel HERE
Read the instructions very carefully.

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Reply #19 - Mar 26^th, 2007 at 3:16pm

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Hagar wrote on Mar 25^th, 2007 at 6:47am:

burninator wrote on Mar 24^th, 2007 at 10:10pm:

I tried to download CfgEdit already and I couldn't get it to work.

I don't know why that should be. Never mind, you can be the first to try Mike's A-26 panel HERE
Read the instructions very carefully.

Downloaded the panel and it's great! It's pretty much exactly what I was looking for. I made some small adjustments to the bombsight .bmp and changed the angle to 40 degrees to get the sight to work for <500ft bomb runs. Now it's pretty much dead-on if I zoom out once.

Unfortunately, I didn't have a chance to try it out from 5000 ft and 10000 ft at the recommended speeds. If I get a chance I'll download another bomber to use for high level bomb runs and try the panel out with the stock set-up.

Thank you guys for all your help. I really appreciate it!

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Reply #20 - Mar 27^th, 2007 at 11:43am

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[/quote]
B-24 Guy - I downloaded the overhauled B-25 and got the bombsight to work!...sort of...The pink and yellow cross hairs move around in a way that doesn't really make sense to me. For example, if I let the aircraft fly level, both sights will eventually move to the top of the screen, so the accuracy was never really dead on, and most of the time was completely off. I tried adjusting the 'angle' knob, but it didn't move at all. Is that supposed to do something? Is the sight behaving as it should? Do you have any instructions for how to use it?

Thanks so much for all your help!

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Hi Burninator,

It is working. Try this, use the autopilot to hold the alt. for you. Use the angle knob until the sights are near the bottom of the screen. Look for the target to appear and make adj. until the target is centered when the target and both sights line up drop your bombs.

With a little practice you will be droping them right on target.

The best thing is the sight automaticily adj. itself for alt.

You will find that it is the only bomb sight that really works.

Rgards,

B24Guy

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Reply #21 - Mar 27^th, 2007 at 4:50pm

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Thanks B-24 Guy. I couldn't get the angle knob to to anything.

But like I said above, the bombsight for you're B-26 was exactly what I was looking for, so I stick with that! Thanks!

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Reply #22 - Mar 29^th, 2007 at 4:14am

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Hi guys. I downloaded both the A26 and OH B25 files in the hope of learning some more about the panel.cfg file. I think I will, but it'll take a while.
My preference is the B25 bomb sight; fixed sights are just not good enough. I will agree with burninator though, the angle button doesn't move. If I place the cursor over it a small + sign appears but that's it. The angle is set at 20 degrees and won't budge.
What angle is it that it represents? As there are 2 cross hairs I'm guessing one is meant to sit over the target and the other represents the bomb fall position (like the Norden)?

Piers

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Reply #23 - Mar 29^th, 2007 at 10:56pm

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When you get the "+ " sign..Click it.

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Reply #24 - Mar 30^th, 2007 at 12:54pm

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B24Guy wrote on Mar 29^th, 2007 at 10:56pm:

When you get the "+ " sign..Click it.

Regards,

B24Guy

This didn't do anything... Wink

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Reply #25 - Apr 3^rd, 2007 at 12:01pm

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That is weird.
I get the + or - sign click the mouse and the view angle changes.

Don't know why it does not work for you. Have you made any changes to the Panel.cfg file?

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