I love this a/c i think it is pretty great but when i go to fly it and look out the vc everything is black except out the HUD.
has anyone else had this problem and is there anyway to fix it? �

Hello, and welcome to SimV!

You are suffering from the dreaded alpha channel problem in the VC glass texture. This is a quite common problem with FS9 aircraft that have been ported to FSX.

There is a way to fix it though, you will need the program: DXTBMP. it is free, here is a link: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Graphic/Graphic-Editors/DXTBmp.shtml . Next you will need to find the texture for the VC glass, usually called by that or something similar.

Now load that texture into DXTBMP

Next �if you look in the upper right hand corner of the screen you should see a little window called "alpha channel" it will probably be a white square, in FSX the alpha channel is opposite of FS9.

Now go to the top menu and select the alpha tab, and and choose the option: Invert alpha channel.

Your white square in the alpha channel window should be black now.

Now save and let it overwrite, load up the plane and enjoy the new clear cockpit gass.

Any problems. just ask.

Downloading it now, give me a couple of minutes to take a look at it.

OK, for each of the texture folders in the F-18 aircraft folder itself, you need to do the above process to the following files:

sh_vc02.bmp

sh_vc03_L.bmp

Do that and let me know what you have then. 

thank you so much trying it now

Yep, I just did this myself, and everything looks correct now, except for the VC glass itself, where at first the entire cockpit controls and all were blacked out, this is the same problem you had, correct?

The VC glass is going to require another trick. But one step at a time.

Working that problem now.

so anything new?