Helmet update

[todd022]

Hey HB team, just wanted to say I truly appreciate the little things that make your work so incredible. I jokingly made a thread in the "bugs" section stating the HGU-33 flight helmet with visor housing should have the knob in the "down" position. You guys fixed it! Insane level of detail. Thanks!

[Airhunter]

I agree! Finally fixed. :D

[Dannyvandelft]

Ooooh HB! could you give the helmets tinted visors we can slide up and down?

 

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[Cobra847]

The next pilot related update we'll do in the F-14 is to add the in-cockpit pilots.

 

Later on; we'll add the HGU-55 as well.

[Gascan39]

The next pilot related update we'll do in the F-14 is to add the in-cockpit pilots.

 

Later on; we'll add the HGU-55 as well.

 

:thumbup:

[Airhunter]

The next pilot related update we'll do in the F-14 is to add the in-cockpit pilots.

 

Later on; we'll add the HGU-55 as well.

 

Awesome stuff!

[LanceCriminal86]

The next pilot related update we'll do in the F-14 is to add the in-cockpit pilots.

 

Later on; we'll add the HGU-55 as well.

 

And here I was about to post "I really wish HB would reconsider offering the HGU-55 as well".

 

Is there a way you guys can use "switches" or flags in either the description.lua or somewhere client side so we can swap the pilot/helmet models at will in skins? Being able to have both helmets as an option will really help with modeling both the older As and the As that still served into the GWOT with the Checkmates, Tophatters, Black Aces, etc.

[Airhunter]

Yep, would be cool to switch them in the "special " F-14 specific DCS options.

[Cobra847]

Yes, it should end up being a switch in the desc.lua for liveries. :)

[LanceCriminal86]

Yes, it should end up being a switch in the desc.lua for liveries. :)

 

Perfect!

 

My other thought was going to be creative usage of Alpha layers to make the visor assembly "invisible". When I did some modding work in Rome Total War years back, one way we got over the maximum model/unit limit was by adding extra parts to the same base unit, and then using alpha layers to only display the helmets, crests, weapons, or shield shapes we wanted for one unit.

 

I was also thinking something like that may be needed to do the MODEX, since you guys mentioned there were a lot of different locations depending on squadron, year, etc. Maybe if you could somehow map all of them and get them to all display the MODEX, then you could use alpha channels or comment out the un-needed ones in the descr.lua. Then all the fancy fonts can just be handled using the numbers DDS files like other birds such as the F-18 do.

[Swordsman422]

 

Later on; we'll add the HGU-55 as well.

 

YES!!!!

[Mnemonic]

The next pilot related update we'll do in the F-14 is to add the in-cockpit pilots.

 

Later on; we'll add the HGU-55 as well.

 

This is so cool! Looking forward!

[Nodak]

With the A model hope we get the HGU-2A/P, don't think most people know it was the USAF who ran, equipped, and administered Iran's F-14 program.

[pYlot]

Is there any chance that we can get a working visor? Like in the MiG-21?

 

ty!

[Airhunter]

Any new on the in cockpit pilots? I mean Razbam has since added theirs...

[TOYKILLA]

Any new on the in cockpit pilots? I mean Razbam has since added theirs...

Yes please, the F-14B is not Immersive in VR without Pilot Bodys.

 

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