This is a 62 Mbyte package because of the PDF files.
Download Link===>>>: http://www55.zippyshare.com/v/63472571/file.htmlPlease do not un-zip this directly to C:\Hitech Creations\Aces High\sights.
Remember each gunsight needs it's mil file copied with it to the sights directory to make it show up correctly.----------------------------------------------------------
bustr's Historic Gunsight Package - January 30, 2014
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Note: Turning down the Alpha slider on bright colored and white gunsights helps see the con easier. When you aim the dimmed gunsight against a dark background, or the con, the gunsight's rings, lines, and dots brighten up.
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Each Country folder has a readme file explaining which gunsight was used in which aircraft.
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Controlling the Size of the Gunsight1. - All gunsight bitmaps have a same named "Size Control" file that has to be copied with them to the "sights" folder to show up correctly.
Example: gunsight.bmp - gunsight.mil
2. - These files can be edited in notepad to change the size control number. The mil file has instructions to help you. By default 256 is the control number. You can increase the size of the gunsight by increments of 8 beginning with the number 32 in the control file. If you start with 32, the end result is a very tiny gunsight more like a dot.
3. - 256 causes the gunsights to show to a calibrated scale equivalent to real world:
2pixel = 1Mil
You can use numbers from 32 - 512 in increments of 8. The best results are with 32, 64, or 128. Numbers below 256 shrink the gunsight, above increase it's size.
4. - Most of the gunsights are 70Mil, 100Mil, or 105Mil in diameter. A folder called "Gunnery" has WW2 gunnery manuals that can explain the significance of the ring sizes to shooting things.
5. - In each Mil file is a notes section explaining what to do. Very simply, the single number at the very top of the file, you change it. You can do this with the game running and minimized. Just be in the tower each time you minimize to change the number.
6. - If you change it to larger numbers and you don't use TrackIR in 6-axis mode. You will need to push your default head view forward to fit the gunsight to the reflector plate.
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German Gunsights
1. - I changed them back to the ring and cross with tapered ends. From a collector's photos of Revi gunsights with the light turned on, the cross tail ends taper on the reflector plates.
2. - I'm including a white yellow gunsight and red gunsight. Daytime and night time(Nacht) gunsights.
3. - Turning down the Alpha slider when choosing the white yellow versions makes them easier to use.
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Russian Gunsights
1. - Found a PAK-1 reticle pattern for the I-16 illustrated in a page from a manual.
2. - Found photos and illustrated 3 reticles from manuals for the PBP-1.
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Japanese Gunsights
1. - Now have white and filtered gunsights because most japanese gunsights were copies of german gunsights.
2. - Turning down the Alpha slider when choosing the white versions makes them easier to use.
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Gunnery Manuals
Included the following WW2 gunnery manuals:
British - Bag the Hun (RAF Gunnery Manual)
AAF 1943 - Fighter Pilot Gunnery
AAF 1943 - Get That Fighter (Bomber gunners handbook)
AAF 1944 - Sights and Sighting (Updated gunners handbook)
Germany - Horrido! (Des Jagers Schiessfibel)
Germany - Hoorido! English Translation ( Translation of select parts)
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Blue Thingy and Dot folders............
Just some extras to have fun with.
