Author Topic: Gun sights. (Read 1160 times)

mensa180 · « **on:** May 26, 2007, 02:59:59 PM »

I wish that a few guys who have some great gun sights could pull them together and send the whole bunch to HTC for their "Gun Sight Gallery" to get it started.
Just a wish.

Yoshimbo · « **Reply #1 on:** May 26, 2007, 03:06:57 PM »

Ladies and gentlemen, prepare the moment you've all been waiting for...at long last the dream has finally become a reality...

DRUMROLL PLEASE!!!!!

I GIVE YOU!!!

THE N00BSIGHT!!!

in all serious though i would really like to see that gunsight gallery get goin' too, until then i'll just keep using waffles and the few historical ones i found (forgot link, but i think it is in the "Useful Links" section), also a few of my own.

Spikes · « **Reply #2 on:** May 26, 2007, 03:12:29 PM »

give me that gun sight yosh.

Sketch · « **Reply #3 on:** May 26, 2007, 03:14:04 PM »

I've got about 300 of them if HTC wants them. From Waffle's to Fruda to a bunch of others, just a thought....

mensa180 · « **Reply #4 on:** May 26, 2007, 03:19:48 PM »

LOL at the sight.

Yeah sending those in would be great, I don't have any except for the default ones.

Yoshimbo · « **Reply #5 on:** May 26, 2007, 03:58:37 PM »

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give me that gun sight yosh.

sure thing ^_______________________^

you can download it here

VooWho · « **Reply #6 on:** May 26, 2007, 05:27:20 PM »

I still can't figure out how to change the color of the gun sites. I can only make them green or yellow. I WANT BLUE and RED!!!!

Sketch · « **Reply #7 on:** May 26, 2007, 05:53:23 PM »

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Originally posted by mensa180
LOL at the sight.

Yeah sending those in would be great, I don't have any except for the default ones.

Not sure if I can just 'send' them in. THink I would need the higher up's permission to send them in and let them put them up. Also, kind of up to the 'makers' of the sights to say okay, I.E. Waffle, Aero, Mitsu, etc. to say it is cool with them....

mensa180 · « **Reply #8 on:** May 26, 2007, 10:32:32 PM »

Yeah I meant, if this were to be "Okayed" then you should send them in.

Reading back I realize that might have been hard to get without knowing what I was thinking at the time, lol.

Saxman · « **Reply #9 on:** May 27, 2007, 12:23:36 AM »

I'd still like to see the size of gun sights corrected. Some of the historical sights are very difficult to use because the aircraft displays the sights as too small (proven with scale testing!).

Ghosth · « **Reply #10 on:** May 27, 2007, 08:02:47 AM »

Saxman from what I've seen most of the gunsight size problems are with the F4u's.

So why not take the same sight, and size them appropriately for the plane? Label them according to what plane they belong to?

Heck if you did it right you'd probably get some Attaboys & WTGS from others wanting the sights.

I'm sure it went on the list of things to fix someday, but its a big list and HT & staff have a LOT to do.

Saxman · « **Reply #11 on:** May 27, 2007, 09:44:37 AM »

Ghost: As has been said previously in other threads the sights can't be enlarged any further as they're at the max size (256x256) already. The only way to fix would be to change how the sight is "projected" in a given aircraft.

In the case of the full Mk8 sight (with extended cross hair, not the version that just consists of the rings), for it to appear correct in the F4Us in the way you describe, the sight would need to be made 512x512 because it already fills the entire 256x256 image. Trust me, I've already tried. All I get is a big white nothing if I make it that big.

Spikes · « **Reply #12 on:** May 27, 2007, 10:29:26 AM »

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Originally posted by VooWho
I still can't figure out how to change the color of the gun sites. I can only make them green or yellow. I WANT BLUE and RED!!!!

I want to learn to change some that I have too....

Ghosth · « **Reply #13 on:** May 28, 2007, 07:57:00 AM »

http://www.irfanview.com

Its freeware graphics viewer program with a ton of cool features, very tightly coded. (small, NOT bloatware)
What it doesn't do is create from scratch, use paint for that.

Load the sight, image, edit palatte, change it to whatever you like, and save.

I've had my best luck with a blue/green dot.

Iron_Cross · « **Reply #14 on:** May 28, 2007, 04:32:08 PM »

The problem with gunsights is that the same sight appears diffrent, in diffrent planes. In an A6M the same sight calebrated for a D200 shot in a P-51 will be calibrated to a D400 shot when viewed in that A6M.

I make my own sights with Paint, and have to do extensive testing both offline and on, to get them to where I'm happy with the sight picture, and calibrated to my prefered shooting convergance.

FW's look different than 109's, F4U's look diffrent than F6F's, every model line has a diffrent sight picture. On some planes a horizontal bar is just thin enough to dissappear yet on some planes it is to thick. It is a nightmare. No one sight can do it all, except maybe a single dot like the one above.