Possible to draw on the A-10C canopy glass?

[JayPee]

To the painters and modders,

 

I would like to experiment with drawing some opaque stuff on the glass of the canopy using Paint.NET/Photoshop crayon brush to simulate markings put on by the pilot. I was hoping to find a huge texture file containing the entire canopy but instead I only found a small template file containing the shaded side glass and the unshaded front window textures.

 

Could you give me some pointers on where to look, using which programmes, etc.?

[JayPee]

Bump. I'm still hoping somebody can help me out with this... Here's an image of what I am trying to achieve.

 

Edited February 24, 2014 by JayPee

[Lizzard]

I remember back then in Lock on there was a mod with drawed Lines on the Canopy (for not getting confused while padlocking)..the altered Files were named A-10-PIT-REFLECT.tga. But no real clue about DCS

[JayPee]

I'm Googling it as we speak.. Hopefully I can find some pointers there on how to pull off something similar.

 

EDIT: I notice quite some mods altering cockpit textures but so far I haven't found the proper files for the 10C.

Edited February 24, 2014 by JayPee

[diveplane]

its just a texture ,so its easy enough .

 

format is dxt3 dds if I remember.

 

DCS World\Mods\aircrafts\A-10C\Cockpit\Resources\Model\Textures

 

A-10C-glass-REFLECT.dds

Edited February 25, 2014 by diveplane

[Oesau]

Tom_Weiss would know - he's done a number of mods to add lift lines to the canopies of DCS aircraft

[JayPee]

Possible to draw on the A-10C canopy glass?

 

Which programme(s) do I use to open that file? As is probably obivous, I've never done this before.

 

EDIT: Nevermind, I think I've found a tutorial.

Edited February 26, 2014 by JayPee

[Katanaa]

Drawing on the canopy even casts shadows inside the cockpit, something I found out when I splashed a bird onto the canopy :)

 

[JayPee]

Could you give me a quick rundown how you made that? I have trouble opening certain files..

[Katanaa]

Easiest way to open the dds-files imo is to get the nvidia dds-plugin for photoshop.

https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-texture-tools-adobe-photoshop

 

The alpha-layer in the texturefile controls the transparency, where black is fully transparant.

 

my A-10C-glass-REFLECT.dds looks like this for example.

[JayPee]

Going to try that this weekend, thanks so far!

[Crashmo]

dds file conversion

 

Jay,

 

I have used this program for over a year. It is very simple to set up and use. Just drag a bmp file into it and convert to a (save as) dds5 file.

 

You can also take any .dds file and convert back to a bmp file to see it with a PC.

 

http://www.mwgfx.co.uk/programs/dxtbmp.htm

 

this is just one download site. The program is DXTBMP 16/32. I googled it and about 10 download sites came up.

[JayPee]

Hey thanks man!

[diveplane]

Drawing on the canopy even casts shadows inside the cockpit, something I found out when I splashed a bird onto the canopy :)

 

 

hope dcs dev team would add this effect in on bird strikes.

[ENO]

I keep reading the hog documentation about how they use their canopy to help stack and rack aircraft in the AFAC role and I wish there was a realistic and practical way to apply that. I don't expect it by any means- but between binoculars and the grease pencil I think we're missing a big part of hog culture.

[Hansolo]

Ability to select gyro stabilized binoculars similar to switching on NVG would be a nice feature

 

Cheers

Hans