Huey Pilots Sights Re-sized

I suspect that the pilots sights will be changed for the final release of the Huey, but in the meantime:

I've re-sized the pilots sight, as i found the default size too big. I also removed the outer ring.

This does not change the flex sights at all, only the pilots sight.

I've attached my PilotSight_page.lua for anyone else interested.

Simply copy it to your DCS World\Mods\aircrafts\Uh-1H\Cockpit\Scripts\PilotSight folder

Back-up your original file first.

If you want to adjust it to your own preference, do the following;

As always, backup any files before editing.

open (with Notepad++) "PilotSight_page.lua" located in DCS World\Mods\aircrafts\Uh-1H\Cockpit\Scripts\PilotSight folder

you will see;

Lines 43 - 50 refers to the outer ring (i've commented these out of mine)

Lines 52 - 59 refers to the middle ring

Lines 61 - 68 refers to center dot.

Line 46, line 55, and line 64 are the ones you want. Change the numerical values in the brackets. eg:

line 55 set_circle(circle1,0.05,0.04)

I halved these values to; set_circle(circle1,0.025,0.02)

I suggest that whatever you do to one value, you also do to all the values (ie: halve them , or quarter them all etc). This only applies to the first two rings (outer rings)

Line 64 only only needs the first value changed to make the center dot smaller.

pic of the edited sight and the original

PilotSight_page.lua

Huge improvement, I can aim much more precisely with this, thanks.

Any way to change the color of the rings in both sights?

I'm at work atm, but this is something I've been meaning to look into. Time permitting, i'll have a fiddle around tonight.

Following this link Change Position of yellow Text (Weap.stat, AP)??? you will find a modified PilotSight_page.lua that let you control X/Y and Size of the weapon-hints. And it gives enough info to change the colour.

Thanks for your input here PeterP, you saved me alot of time and made this really easy

Below is a list of colors that you can use to easily change your sights. Taken from

DCS World\Mods\aircrafts\Uh-1H\Cockpit\Scripts\materials.lua

Simply pick which color you want and replace the "ORANGE" (on lines 47, 56, 65 of PilotSight_page.lua) with your choice.

eg circle1.material = "GREEN_TRANSPARENT"

Thanks again Peter

edit: jdkirk904, this will only change the pilots sights

To change the color of the Flex-Sights, open 'materials.lua' in

DCS World\Mods\aircrafts\Uh-1H\Cockpit\Scripts

then on line 48, change the ["HUD_IND_YELLOW"] to one of the colors posted above

eg:

textures["INDICATION_FLEXSIGHT"] = {IndicationTexturesPath.."sight_UH_1H.tga", materials["GREEN_TRANSPARENT"]}