New canopy without scratches mod v2.0

[Majesco]

Have you ever used Kovy’s “Fast canopy with no scratches” mod ?

The Kovy’s mod works very well, it helps you get better fps in F1 view mode but the weak point of Kovy’s mod is: it disabled all worthful effects on the outside of the canopy on all planes, especially on 3 high-detailed models: SU-25T, FA-18A/C and Walmis’s F-15C model....those planes have the same feature: their canopy looks very nice from the outside under sunshines but with Kovy’s mod which disabled all canopy’s effects so the Walmis’s F-15’s canopy if you look in F2 view from outside the plane, it looks transparent, a transparent canopy (Su-25T and F-18 are better), I really don’t like that.

 

So I made a new canopy mod named “Canopy without scratches v2.0” based on Kovy’s mod but it’ll give you better effects:

My mod just remove all scratches inside the canopy in F1 view (like Kovys) but....all impacts on the outside canopy’s effects are nothing. All effects are still preserved

 

I think my mod’s very useful for all those who use Walmis’s F-15 model but they dont want to lose canopy effects because they look very nice under sunshines, all inside scratches are removed. It also help you to maintain all outside canopy effects on all forthcoming aircraft models such as Gys F-14D Tomcat, Strikemax’s new Su-27 model, etc....

 

Although I don’t know who Kovy is but I wanna give him a thanks for his mod

 

Here’s my first mod: it has some bright curve lines inside the canopy, I don’t know what they’re but they might be the result of the sunshines reflection on the outside. Bright curves move around the canopy in just F1 view mode (depend on sunlight direction), daytime only, they don’t appear in night-time. They really don’t affect much to the sight in LO.

 

 

And on my second canopy mod: I removed all bright curves, in F1 view now it looks the same Kovy’s mod but....all outside effects are preserved.

 

 

It'll be uploaded to Lockonfiles

[Shaman]

Awesome, I have just installed this mod and works perfectly, thanks!

I recommend it to everyone! Who needs these nasty scratches anyway. Time to get brand new and shiny canopy glass :)

[Shaman]

They look a little over-exaggerated to me, but nice work for trying

 

What do you mean? The buggy bright curve lines? I don't get these in version 2.0 of his mod. It seems he got rid of them totally.. all this mod does is to clean the canopy from scratches and still keep the gloss-shiny effect of the canopy on the outside (external views).

[Boberro]

Good work :thumbup:

[Mnemonic]

Looks like some kind of energy blast IMO

[Boberro]

You can paralize enemy aircrafts :D

[Vekkinho]

Yeah scratches add to realism but kill FPS!

[rattler]

Did my own canopy glass color and have no scratches and outside is perfect with reflection of sun etc. I used to use "no scratch canopy mod" and see no difference between the two, at least on my computer. I went back to the original F15C made a lot of skin changes and the canopy color. I was a bit surprised to find the scratches inside did not appear and outside was perfect. Go figure. Unfortunate that it is not a very sunny day but you get the idea.

Edited August 30, 2008 by rattler