[FIXED] flaregun toggle function

[Hadwell]

yeah the flare gun damnit covers up the prop pitch indicator... at least have it stowable, it was in real life.

[9.JG27 DavidRed]

...on the bright side though, i just noticed the pilot as is carrying 12 flare. green,red,white and yellow.3for each colour.

 

right now, i can imagine it beeing usable online just before entering the runway from the taxiway to warn incoming 109s or other aircraft... :)

[El Hadji]

Not with Head tracking, is absolutely no issue with Track IR.

 

I actually think it is...

[NineLine]

 

If ED decides to make it a loadout option only, then maybe some mod could exchange the texture with an invisible one...

 

If its a loadout option, then why would it need to have an invisible texture? If it was a setting in the loadout you could just choose not to carry it and it wouldnt be there ;)

[CaptJodan]

+1

 

Not sure what the best solution is, per say, but something to remove it in some fashion so gauges can be seen by non Track-IR folks would be appreciated.

[tusler]

need to do something cause if things are not set right they just blow up!

I have no idea what caused it...:doh:

Setting Flaps Explosion.trk

[Mainstay]

I asked this a long time ago before the K-4 was released. Never got a good answer back then because i already hated it back then. http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=2176953&postcount=290

 

Been looking at the files of the BF-109 and it seems this shouldnt be to hard for ED to change. The LP42 (Lichtpistole) has seperate textures within the cockpit files LP42.dds

 

I would also like to ask ED to make the LP42 Optional from within the loadout selection screen or optional through the extra BF-109 option tab.

 

Thank you in advance

[NineLine]

Ok guys, I have submitted a feature request for this.

[Para_Bellum]

Ok guys, I have submitted a feature request for this.

 

Thanks!

[tusler]

Check This View

 

I was messing with the view system, I have no clue how I got this view but it happened while holding the RAlt and pushing numpad keys.

Now that I have this view I find that I can hold down RCtrl + RShift and push the numpad key 8 to slew up, 2 for down, 4 for left and 6 for right. I can see all the gauges under the flaregun.

I use a track ir 3 pro so I can still pan around.

2 points, I do not know how to get out of this view:noexpression: but at least there is a way using views to see all the gauges.:D

Looking around.trk

[NineLine]

Comments from Erich Brunotte on the Flare Gun:

 

Just a couple of answers from Erich. Flare gun was left installed in its place also during flights, was not in the way at all, didn't block any instruments (probably due to stereoscopic vision). He knew it could be used in flight when in position but never did himself, also couldn't say in what circumstances that could have been useful. To him that was simply a place of storage, in case you crash landed you could take out and signal your position, the flare gun would have slipped into a pocket of his flight suit. But when he bailed out with damaged engine he didn't think of taking it with him, no time!

[thawall]

[FEATURE REQUEST] flaregun toggle function

 

Despite maybe being a little unrealistic, I'm also for the option to make it invisible via a toggle. It might not be a problem in reality, but in game it just feels like an obstacle to me (in an already cramped, but beautiful, cockpit).

 

Also, I don't see how it is any different from toggling the pilot model on or off...

[[DBS]TH0R]

+1

[LcSummers]

Thanks Sith:thumbup:

[Ballenato]

+1

[argento]

+1

[QuiGon]

-1 to remove it / making it invisible

I'm fine with making it optional of course. The thing is I found it pretty useful in (public) MP games to signal other players if you are in trouble or just encountered an enemy and need some backup.

[Flagrum]

Tbh, it doesn't really bother me - especially not after the grip was now twisted a bit to the side, barel obscuring anything anymore.

[Buzzles]

Tbh, it doesn't really bother me - especially not after the grip was now twisted a bit to the side, barel obscuring anything anymore.

 

Except the top breakers. Which it now obscures even more, which'll be important once they get fixed and aren't in during a cold and dark start.

 

As a non-trackir user, I'd very much like the option to remove it.

[9.JG27 DavidRed]

Tbh, it doesn't really bother me - especially not after the grip was now twisted a bit to the side, barel obscuring anything anymore.

 

 

you are joking right? all they did, was twisting it, so that the flaregun doesnt interfer with the stick...the angle is the same and it covers the gauges and levers in the same way like it did before...the only difference now is, that it also covers the circuit brakers, so its worse.:)

good thing though is that it will be removable.

[arthuro12]

Is it possible to edit the texture so it has a transparent alpha?

 

Could do it that way until there's a solution..

[Flagrum]

you are joking right? all they did, was twisting it, so that the flaregun doesnt interfer with the stick...the angle is the same and it covers the gauges and levers in the same way like it did before...the only difference now is, that it also covers the circuit brakers, so its worse.:)

good thing though is that it will be removable.

I can see the temp gauges without problem, the prop pitch gauge is somewhat obscured and the tank gauge is half visible. I am not sure if I need to constantly monitor the prop pitch and if I need to check that the fuel is more than half full, I can lean a few centimeters to the left and see even those both gauges perfectly. (Iirc before those two were covered more by the pistol grip)

 

The CBs are now more obscured, yes, but how often do you need to access them in flight? The NAV lights perhaps, yes, but that one is as good accessible as it was before.

 

As I explained in some other thread, I am all for having options. So don't get me wrong, I am not against this proposal. But personally I don't see the real necessity.

[zaelu]

Maybe in the future when the pilot will be placed inside the cockpit we will get an extra animation with him mounting the gun in the hole.

 

This will be nice, useful and realistic.

 

However... I can't stop wondering why some people take a pride of not using a headtracking method with 6DoF... :noexpression:

 

...but, to each is own

[9.JG27 DavidRed]

I can see the temp gauges without problem, the prop pitch gauge is somewhat obscured and the tank gauge is half visible. I am not sure if I need to constantly monitor the prop pitch and if I need to check that the fuel is more than half full, I can lean a few centimeters to the left and see even those both gauges perfectly. (Iirc before those two were covered more by the pistol grip)

 

The CBs are now more obscured, yes, but how often do you need to access them in flight? The NAV lights perhaps, yes, but that one is as good accessible as it was before.

 

As I explained in some other thread, I am all for having options. So don't get me wrong, I am not against this proposal. But personally I don't see the real necessity.

 

oh my post wasnt an offense or anything...just stating that the pistol grip was twisted rather than the whole gun put at a different angle.so now its just more covering than before.

honestly, before it was released, and at the very first days i was really annoyed with the gun...then when it was clear that it was at least usable, and that we could at least really shoot flares, it became less of an annoyance for me...but then when they changed the angle of the gun with one of the latest patch, it started to annoy me again... :)

just like you say, options are a good thing, and personally im really looking forward to take that flaregun and throw it on the ground crew staff's head as they were still too lazy to clear my damn canopy :lol:

[Bucic]

+1

 

To me, when it's allowed to hide the pilot body for cockpit visibility reasons, then the same holds for the flare gun. ..

+1

As it is with the kettle on MiG-21 HUD.