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Title: HT and crew, a cockpit rework request
Post by: Jackal1 on February 01, 2005, 05:21:45 AM: I would like to ask that when reworking the cockpits of the rest of the planes to please not use the teeny, tiny, chigger size instruments.
I guess we could use a .oldfartsbifocalinstrument command. :D
Title: HT and crew, a cockpit rework request
Post by: streetstang on February 01, 2005, 05:32:25 AM: lol chigger.

You bastige!
Title: HT and crew, a cockpit rework request
Post by: Jackal1 on February 01, 2005, 07:53:58 AM: :D
Title: HT and crew, a cockpit rework request
Post by: Kaz on February 01, 2005, 12:02:33 PM: :rofl
Title: Re: HT and crew, a cockpit rework request
Post by: Ohio43 on February 01, 2005, 12:09:37 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Jackal1
I would like to ask that when reworking the cockpits of the rest of the planes to please not use the teeny, tiny, chigger size instruments.
I guess we could use a .oldfartsbifocalinstrument command. :D

Heh, I was thinking the same about the small sizes of NME planes and gauges. Was either going to get a bigger monitor, or invest in one of those Jewler's magnifying glass things. The kind that is on a swivel arm attached to a desktop
Title: HT and crew, a cockpit rework request
Post by: Krusty on February 01, 2005, 12:18:37 PM: Agreed... I can just BARELY make out Ki84 dials (and that's at 1024 screen resolution!!!!!) but I can't read **** from the new P38 dials. They're too damn small!!! And they're angled DOWN, away from the player head position. This combined makes it terrible to read.

If you could perhaps just make the whites BRIGHTER on the dial surfaces, that would be a big help. I don't remember if you put new glass instrument faces in the new models, but if you did it's seriously dulling the instruments.

A size increase would be most utilitarian. A boost in the brightness of the instruments would also help.
Title: HT and crew, a cockpit rework request
Post by: Fruda on February 01, 2005, 02:58:50 PM: You guys must have eye problems, because I can see the dials on the new cockpits *better* than on the old ones.
Title: HT and crew, a cockpit rework request
Post by: oboe on February 01, 2005, 03:02:05 PM: I program one of my hat switches to an instrument panel zoom in.

Helps a bit.
Title: HT and crew, a cockpit rework request
Post by: Jackal1 on February 01, 2005, 05:41:32 PM: Quote
Originally posted by oboe
I program one of my hat switches to an instrument panel zoom in.

Helps a bit.

Yea, I thought about either doing that or mapping to a key, but when you need to see them most is when you are in the thick of things and that sort of makes that a sort of useless in that situation.
Title: HT and crew, a cockpit rework request
Post by: Mugzeee on February 01, 2005, 06:15:29 PM: Heard someone ask HT this question on Range Vox just the other day. He said it prolly would take a year to get all of them updated.