Making Sights

[Tyro48]

I'm using paint shop pro 7.2, Iv'e gotten past the usual all black or all white sight screen when looking from the pilots perspective. What I have at the moment is a magenta background and red sight lines, I tried using the " set background color as transparent" but apparently .bmp files don't support this command, so in AH how do you make the magents background go transparent, the magent is listed as 255-0-255, isnt this supposed to be the transparent color?

[flakbait]

I've got PSP 7 as well, but I use a different method to making sights. First off, take a stock sight and blow it up to 128x128 so you can actually see it. Next, save it under another name so you don't over-write the original. I usually use "la5.bmp" since I've been flying it quite a bit here lately. Now modify the heck out of it to create what you're after. Rename it to the aircraft's name you want to test it in, and you're done. Doing it this way stops you from ever screwing up.

A little tip. When you want to center a dot, or a circle, look at the grid references at the lower left of PSP. 64,64 will be the center of the sight, so that's where the dot/center of a circle goes.

-----------------------
Flakbait [Delta6]
Delta Six's Flight School
Put the P-61B in Aces High
"For yay did the sky darken, and split open and spew forth fire, and
through the smoke rode the Four Wurgers of the Apocalypse.
And on their canopies was tattooed the number of the Beast, and the
number was 190." Jedi, Verse Five, Capter Two, The Book of Dweeb
 

[Midnight]

Easier method

1. Open a sight in MS Paint (yes the free one that comes in Windows)

2. Use 8x zoom to see the sight nicely.

3. Use the dropper to get a sample of the background color (that way it is perfect match)

4. Use the line draw tool to make a big X from corner to corner. The intersection is dead center (actually it is 4 pixels in 2x2 box)

5. Edit your sight around what you like. With the pencil tool, you can edit pixel-by-pixel if you want to get real precise.

I did this one with the line draw and pencil tools. The original cross lines were black and I worked from there.

           

If you want the BMP original of this site, see the 412th Home Page and follow the links to pilot setups. There is a detailed description of how this sight is best used also.

------------------
Wing up, Get kills, Be happy!

Midnight CO
http://webpages.charter.net/davidlj" TARGET=_blank>            


The 412th is actively seeking P-51 Mustang pilots. E-mail me for more information                    davidlj@charter.net      

[This message has been edited by Midnight (edited 05-22-2001).]

[Tyro48]

thanks guys what I'm after here is learning how to make a sight from scratch using PsP 7.02 have used the above suggestions many times, just trying to figure it out just for the learning of how to do it.