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Offline Amsoil21

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Custom gunsights
« on: August 19, 2011, 05:11:49 PM »
Any 1 know where i can get hold of a smaller standard gunsight, some of them are way to big.. p40 and a6m to name a couple. cant find any but there must be some somewhere  :pray

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Re: Custom gunsights
« Reply #1 on: August 19, 2011, 08:15:58 PM »
Any 1 know where i can get hold of a smaller standard gunsight, some of them are way to big.. p40 and a6m to name a couple. cant find any but there must be some somewhere  :pray

I have a whole list of historically correct gunsights if you want... but some are just naturally big and you will need to adjust your views.
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Re: Custom gunsights
« Reply #2 on: August 20, 2011, 08:04:39 AM »
yer sure thats a start buddy, i need a change in some planes, impossible to aim properly in p40.

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Re: Custom gunsights
« Reply #3 on: August 20, 2011, 08:32:44 AM »
The only sight you'll ever need. The Red Dot-o-Death, I use this for just about every plane  :)




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Re: Custom gunsights
« Reply #4 on: August 20, 2011, 09:20:08 AM »
The only sight you'll ever need. The Red Dot-o-Death, I use this for just about every plane  :)

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Re: Custom gunsights
« Reply #5 on: August 20, 2011, 11:38:32 AM »
Any 1 know where i can get hold of a smaller standard gunsight, some of them are way to big.. p40 and a6m to name a couple. cant find any but there must be some somewhere  :pray

Amsoil,

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Re: Custom gunsights
« Reply #6 on: August 20, 2011, 11:50:33 AM »
EDIT:i got them in the game, they just dont show up in the gunsight prefrences, its just the blank gunsight when i start flying. how do i fix this?
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Re: Custom gunsights
« Reply #7 on: August 20, 2011, 01:21:45 PM »
EDIT:i got them in the game, they just dont show up in the gunsight prefrences, its just the blank gunsight when i start flying. how do i fix this?

make sure they saved as an bmp and not jpg or png you can check by right clicking the sight and check its properties, if there anything but a bmp you will need to convert them using paint, go to Start/programs/accesiores/Paint open the file in Paint ( or another editing program) then just hit save as.. then make sure you save it as an 256 color bitmap image then make sure its in the AH sights folder, thats it and they should work fine.
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Re: Custom gunsights
« Reply #8 on: August 20, 2011, 01:26:05 PM »
make sure they saved as an bmp and not jpg or png you can check by right clicking the sight and check its properties, if there anything but a bmp you will need to convert them using paint, go to Start/programs/accesiores/Paint open the file in Paint ( or another editing program) then just hit save as.. then make sure you save it as an 256 color bitmap image then make sure its in the AH sights folder, thats it and they should work fine.
i have it saved as a .bmp but how do i save it as a 256 color image?

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Re: Custom gunsights
« Reply #9 on: August 20, 2011, 01:35:27 PM »
i have it saved as a .bmp but how do i save it as a 256 color image?

got to programs /accessiores off the start bar then look for paint program in the accessories, then open paint then open the gunsight in question, once open hit save as ( little box will pop up) make sure it says  256 color (Bitmap *.bmp, *dib) then hit save.  OR you can access the sights through your AH folder/sights right click the site you want to check and look for open with then select Paint once opened just hit save as  like i explained above. hope that helps you, if not let me know i'll see what i can do.
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Re: Custom gunsights
« Reply #10 on: August 20, 2011, 01:36:32 PM »
got to programs /accessiores off the start bar then look for paint program in the accessories, then open paint then open the gunsight in question, once open hit save as ( little box will pop up) make sure it says  256 color (Bitmap *.bmp, *dib) then hit save.  OR you can access the sights through your AH folder/sights right click the site you want to check and look for open with then select Paint once opened just hit save as  like i explained above. hope that helps you, if not let me know i'll see what i can do.
ahh thats much better, working now thanks alot :salute

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Re: Custom gunsights
« Reply #11 on: August 20, 2011, 01:38:25 PM »
ahh thats much better, working now thanks alot :salute

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Re: Custom gunsights
« Reply #12 on: August 20, 2011, 01:47:38 PM »
now if you kill me, I'll expect an apology lol
:lol  well, i dont think ill be killing much more than the AI in offline missions.:uhoh

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Re: Custom gunsights
« Reply #13 on: August 20, 2011, 04:20:50 PM »
Amsoil,

PM Bustr...he developed an entire catalog of sights...most are authentic and very very helpful.  He takes cash and PayPal, lol

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Re: Custom gunsights
« Reply #14 on: August 21, 2011, 07:11:42 PM »
Your problem in the P40's is with the maximum size ring the N2/N3 used.

70Mil ring and dot.

I have a current package of historic gunsights in 100Mil main rings including an N3/L3 70Mil that fits the P40's, P39's and P38's. All are in 512x512 1mil=2pixel.

I've worked up three Japanese graticule the Type98-120Mil(all A6M), Type3 - 100Mil(Ki61/84) and Type4 - 120Mil (N1K2J). 

I've combined the Navy Mk8 and AAF N9 into a Mk9 to take advantage of both as a custom sight along with a Jabo version of the Revi16b to use with the rockets in the Fw190F. PB1 trajectory was the same as the Mk108 tator.

Since HTC includes the 6star 100Mil K14 I have included the K14's 100Mil ring and center cross. Other than that I have all the Historic graticule AAF, RAF, Germenay, Italy, Japan, Finland. With Saxman's permission I include his 100Mil MkVIII.

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