JABO Gunsighjt and offline gunnery training tips

[MutleyBR]

Salute all!
 
After seeing so many pilots complaining about their shooting, I decided to make a custom JABO gunsight and do a compilation of offline gunnery training tips from this board.
 
They can be found at:
 
Mutley's Gunsight  
 
Any comment, good or bad, is welcome. If you think that sight can be improved please let me know.
 
And rest assured that I won't get mad if you use it on me... After all, it will be my fault if I let you do it...

[SavedSaint]

nice site..
nice gunsites.

nice info on how to use them

nice films.

just plain nice:aok

[MutleyBR]

Thanks SavedSaint!
As soon as I get some more space I intend to improve it and add some basic instruction, like take offs and landings(carrier landings also), use of trim and so on.
Salute!

[Max]

Mutley~
That's a fabulous collection of info. THANKS!

Dmdmax

[twitchy]

I tried to use your gun sight, but when I loaded it into the folder and tried to use it, the game shut down instantly. I got into the folder and tried to edit the size and resolution of the gunsight to match the other default ones and that kept the game from shutting down but now the purplish area around the reticle isn't transparent and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Interesting problem came up when I tried to edit any of them and save them though, they are all like that, even if I dont change them at all and just save them back into the game folder they end up liek that as well... any suggestions?
-Twitchy



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[SavedSaint]

that purplish area is suppose to be transparent..
i don't know how that happened.

if you can't any answers
reinstall game and try again.

but make a backup just in case..

[Happy1]

Wonderful ... just fantastic .... great website .... gd info .... well
written & filmed    Saved the entire website in my Favorite Places so that I can use it as a reference.

The gunsight is something new to me but makes sense, have to
practice more with it to garner all the benefits contained therein.

The P51D films are great, wish u had posted more, need all the info I can collect on proper flight procedures from training films
(P51), combat & ACM films.  

Kudos MutleyBR, keep up your good works  

Cheers,

Happy1  

[MutleyBR]

Hi Twitchy.

First, I have no idea, of what may have caused game shutdown. I use that Gunsight in Aces High, and, as I prefer to use my gunsight instead of the "default" sight, I tried to install it in Aces High 2 and it worked as well.

You wrote: "I got into the folder and tried to edit the size and resolution of the gunsight to match the other default ones and that kept the game from shutting down but now the purplish area around the reticle isn't transparent and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong."

As to the background, BMP image format does not, usually, support "transparency". One example of files that support transparency are some variants of GIF files. HiTech, creative as he is, used some routines to make BMP support transparency.

By "transparency" we mean that some specific color  is made transparent. When you apply that image over some background, that background shows through.

Every image has a "color palette", which is range of different colors used in that image.

Each color is represented by some numeric values for (R)ed, (G)reen and (B)lue components.

In order to be "transparent" that  weird purplish color MUST have 255,0,255 for RGB(Red, Green and Blue) values. Those were the values chosen by our Guru HiTech to make it work in AH.

Sometimes we open an image in a Bitmap editing program and the program uses a different color palette. That is, uses different numeric values for each color.

Save the Gunsight as it is to your, ..\AH\sights folder. It should work.

If you want to change the gunsight or make your own custom sight, load it into your favorite Bitmap editor( I use Paint Shop Pro 8) use the "dropper" tool or its equivalent to check RGB values for sight background if it's not 255,0,255 edit those values into the correct ones.

If , for any reason, you can't fix it, please e-mail me the sight with the resolution that works in your system and I'll fix the background for you.

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[MutleyBR]

Hi Happy1!


Based on what you said I will, from now on, include some comments on films, like why and how i did those manouevres.

It hadn't occurred to me the films would be used that way.
I was only thinking about shooting examples.

Maybe we can extend that and do some films on the pros and cons for specific planes.

Thanks for the feedback!

Salute!