JetCat Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 (edited) Hi, maybe someone can help me with repainting the F-16 cockpit. No matter what .DDS texture format I try (DXT3, DXT5, BC7 DX11+ with various compressions, BC7 with alpha channel, BC7 without alpha channel, BC7 without any compression, Gimp DDS conversion, Photoshop CS25 DDS exporting tools or compressions) - no matter what I do and try it just does not work in the F-16! I can repaint any other airplane outside and in the cockpit but it does not function in the F-16. No matter what I try every texture looks fully normal, but will turn neon green as soon as I switch on the light on in the cockpit. So please can someone tell me what I am doing wrong? Thank you very much. Edited January 31, 2022 by JetCat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swartbyron Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 You may get some help from the guys in the user mods forms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetCat Posted February 2, 2022 Author Share Posted February 2, 2022 Hi I already managed to find out by myself what´s wrong - it was the alpha channel. Now with the knowledge of how to illuminate stuff inside the cockpit I could also fix this bug with the whole fuel quality selector (plus the NO DATA instrument plus the empty slot) fully being illuminated in green: If you fly the Viper at night you will notice this bug. I have fixed it today, and made a whole new style of night lighting for the cockpit instruments: I have added a few nice logos into the two cockpits: Adding other details was important too, like for example this one to the right of the eject seat: https://www.xflight.de/pe_org_par_rgc_mdstowage.htm There is still literally every single square inch scattered with scratches and still a lot of clean-up to do, but the black stealthy cockpit is making good progress and the night light is finished. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fagulha Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 Love that kind of details! Keep up the awesome work. - "Don't be John Wayne in the Break if you´re going to be Jerry Lewis on the Ball". About carrier ops: "The younger pilots are still quite capable of holding their heads forward against the forces. The older ones have been doing this too long and know better; sore necks make for poor sleep.' PC: I7 4790K 4.6ghz | 32GB RAM | Zotac GTX 1080Ti 11Gb DDR5x | Water cooler NZXT AIO Kraken x53 | 3.5TB (x4 SSD´s) | Valve Index| Andre´s JeatSeat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PLUTON Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 slt impressive work I downloaded it when it came out but there was the problem of the lighting, I look forward to being able to re-download it as soon as possible thank you in advance very nice work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dauntless Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetCat Posted February 4, 2022 Author Share Posted February 4, 2022 Hi my friends, the grey version is now almost ready, with a lot of subtle changes (mostly clean-ups and illumination bug-fixes). I need to check some details and I upload both cockpits tomorrow evening. Now the cockpit is perfectly cleaned from all these scratches and brown dots, very neat and tidy. Night lighting is completely overhauled (no longer is the cover and the base of the steering stick unrealistically completely glowing at night, and other details.) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetCat Posted February 4, 2022 Author Share Posted February 4, 2022 (edited) The two-tone grey and black cockpit version is almost finished too, and will also be uploaded tomorrow evening. It features the same night lighting bugfixes as the light grey version. Finally the two cockpits for my favorite aircraft are 99% finished...... There is one texture on the aircondition behind the ejection seat that need to get the same dark gun metal grey as the rest of the cockpit, and the cockpit canopy frame will be a bit darkened for the perfect two-tone look to match the glareshield blackness. Before making my own repaint I have tested every single cockpit repaint for the F-16, and I have noticed that two of these repaints feature strange numbers (coordinates I assume) left of the HSI and on the right side of the canopy glass..... because these coordinates may lead to UFO crash sites or other mysterious discoveries in Area 51 Dreamland I have decided to add these numbers to my repaint. Edited February 4, 2022 by JetCat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fagulha Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 Eager waiting for tomorrow - "Don't be John Wayne in the Break if you´re going to be Jerry Lewis on the Ball". About carrier ops: "The younger pilots are still quite capable of holding their heads forward against the forces. The older ones have been doing this too long and know better; sore necks make for poor sleep.' PC: I7 4790K 4.6ghz | 32GB RAM | Zotac GTX 1080Ti 11Gb DDR5x | Water cooler NZXT AIO Kraken x53 | 3.5TB (x4 SSD´s) | Valve Index| Andre´s JeatSeat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetCat Posted February 5, 2022 Author Share Posted February 5, 2022 Hi, here are the promised cockpits Download: https://www.file-upload.net/download-14844279/BlackCockpitUpload.zip.html https://www.file-upload.net/download-14844354/GreyCockpitUpload.zip.html One is a fully overhauled and cleaned grey version of the cockpit just as many older F-16 look like, and one is the stylish black cockpit of the The installation consists of two steps if you want the cockpit really perfect. Step 1: Make a backup of the default folder in D:\Steam\steamapps\common\DCSWorld\Mods\aircraft\F-16C\Liveries\Cockpit_F-16C and insert the black or grey cockpit default folder in D:\Steam\steamapps\common\DCSWorld\Mods\aircraft\F-16C\Liveries\Cockpit_F-16C. Step 2: Look for D:\Steam\steamapps\common\DCSWorld\Mods\aircraft\F-16C\Cockpit\Textures -> F-16C-CPT-TEXTURES.zip make a backup of this zip file somewhere. Insert and overwrite these files from the downloaded new default folder into the zip file of the DCS main cockpit textures in D:\Steam\steamapps\common\DCSWorld\Mods\aircraft\F-16C\Cockpit\Textures -> F-16C-CPT-TEXTURES.zip f16c_cpt_seat.dds f16c_cpt_seat_NRM.dds f16c_cpt_seat_RoughMet.dds f16c_cpt03.dds f16c_cpt03_NRM.dds f16c_cpt03_RoughMet.dds f16c_cpt01.dds f16c_cpt01_NRM.dds f16c_cpt01_RoughMet.dds f16c_cpt07.dds f16c_cpt07_NRM.dds f16c_cpt07_RoughMet.dds Otherwise the normal maps and reflective maps are not recognized correctly and there are several nasty visual glitches in the cockpit like black scratches and other stuff I have cleaned up. Oh and fagulha please send me the file you want to have implemented in the cockpit so I can do that for you and re-upload. Have a wonderful weekend! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fagulha Posted February 5, 2022 Share Posted February 5, 2022 Awesome work. Thank you for sharing. About the pic in the cockpit right panel i didn´t pick up yet the one i want tomorrow, if you don´t mind, i will pick one and message you to see if you can add to the cockpit, and really appreciate that thanks. When i arrive home i´m going to try your liveries awesome! - "Don't be John Wayne in the Break if you´re going to be Jerry Lewis on the Ball". About carrier ops: "The younger pilots are still quite capable of holding their heads forward against the forces. The older ones have been doing this too long and know better; sore necks make for poor sleep.' PC: I7 4790K 4.6ghz | 32GB RAM | Zotac GTX 1080Ti 11Gb DDR5x | Water cooler NZXT AIO Kraken x53 | 3.5TB (x4 SSD´s) | Valve Index| Andre´s JeatSeat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PLUTON Posted February 5, 2022 Share Posted February 5, 2022 Thank you for the hard work done, and thank you for the will and the speed so that we can download it. it is beautiful and fun to watch. very nice job 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Underscore Posted February 6, 2022 Share Posted February 6, 2022 (edited) great pit - thankyou for your work and effort FYI the canopy grease pencil coordinates move around in VR so need to go for VR users.... also its better to install it in... C:\Users\YOUR_NAME\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\Liveries\Cockpit_F-16c\Default Edited February 6, 2022 by Underscore ----------------------------------------------------------- AMD Ryzen 5800X @ 4.8Gz; MSI MAG X570 Tomahawk; GeForce RTX 4090 MSI Trio; 32MB DDR4 @ 3600Mhz; Samsung 980 pro M.2; Varjo Aero VR; Thrustmaster Warthog stick, Viper TQS throttle & MFD's; Monza SR-P pedals Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fagulha Posted February 6, 2022 Share Posted February 6, 2022 (edited) 2 hours ago, Underscore said: great pit - thankyou for your work and effort FYI the canopy grease pencil coordinates move around in VR so need to go for VR users.... also its better to install it in... C:\Users\YOUR_NAME\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\Liveries\Cockpit_F-16c\Default I use OVgme to enable/disable the cockpits. Easy to use. EDIT: "grease pencil coordinates move around in VR" i also noticed that. Already happened to me in a previous cockpit liverie that i downloaded Edited February 6, 2022 by fagulha - "Don't be John Wayne in the Break if you´re going to be Jerry Lewis on the Ball". About carrier ops: "The younger pilots are still quite capable of holding their heads forward against the forces. The older ones have been doing this too long and know better; sore necks make for poor sleep.' PC: I7 4790K 4.6ghz | 32GB RAM | Zotac GTX 1080Ti 11Gb DDR5x | Water cooler NZXT AIO Kraken x53 | 3.5TB (x4 SSD´s) | Valve Index| Andre´s JeatSeat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetCat Posted February 7, 2023 Author Share Posted February 7, 2023 (edited) Hello pilots, Here is the newest version of the "Black Pearl" a nice stealthy F-16 cockpit. Please make a backup of the "F-16C-CPT-TEXTURES.zip" texture folder which is the default cockpit. On my computer it is located in: J:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\DCSWorld\Mods\aircraft\F-16C\Liveries\Cockpit_F-16C Afterwards open F-16C-CPT-TEXTURES.zip and my download Black Pearl.zip, and copy my textures from inside the zipped Black Pearl folder into the F-16C-CPT-TEXTURES.zip zip file. Overwrite everything. Sorry it´s a little bit annoying to do this but my DCS still don´t accept custom F-16 cockpits chosen in the extras menu that´s why I have to replace the textures manually for the F-16. Afterwards you will get this nice black cockpit from the screenshots that is flown by some real F-16, I have seen this on some YouTube videos and pictures. Two textures with coordinates are borrowed from I think it was the Raven cockpit or another dark one, because I liked these coordinates numbers on the canopy. The whole cockpit and also the ejection seat is overhauled and way more newer and more beautyful looking with these scratches and sand-coloured dots everywhere gone. Some texture bugs of the night lighting are fixed (I think the default F-16 still has this bug that a few main panel instruments are not correctly lit, my cockpit fixes this.) Please note that these coordinates look strange when flying in 3D VR - I will upload a version without the coordinates on the canopy glass later. Sorry the grey version takes a bit longer than expected that´s why here is only the black version for now. The main computer switches are better now, the IFF switch that was labeled as "FF" in the previous upload and a few other things are fixed now. Good-looking new throttle and sidestick included. The other website stated in Firefox "that the download is risky and might contain malware" yadda yadda that´s why I have chosen a new file hoster to download this black cockpit: https://ufile.io/ti5travs Have a great night flight over Area 51! Please note that this was tested in my Steam version only and I don´t play or fly anything in multiplayer. This cockpit might break the multiplayer function when installing it and it might be necessary to redownload and reinstall the F-16. So try at your own risk testpilot By the way I need to know if the "M" button on the bottom instrument of the middle main panel, I think this is a backup VOR or TACAN gauge, is illuminated. If yes I will illuminate this switch together with integral night lighting in the next update Edited June 8, 2023 by JetCat New black cockpit version 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notrix Posted October 2, 2023 Share Posted October 2, 2023 Just replying to inform you that the latest link shows the download expired, is there a way to get it uploaded to the user files or maybe Google Drive and so on? @JetCat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Heater_ Posted October 3, 2023 Share Posted October 3, 2023 20 hours ago, Notrix said: Just replying to inform you that the latest link shows the download expired, is there a way to get it uploaded to the user files or maybe Google Drive and so on? @JetCat Bump. Simulatori: DCS A-10C II Warthog - DCS F/A-18C Hornet - DCS F-16C - VRS F/A-18E - HOTAS: TM Warthog - Cougar \ HP Reverb G2 \ WinWing Panels Tally: I see the degenerate commie who wants to ruin our day. **Air Combat Wings** - 32nd Virtual Fighter Wing || Discord https://discord.gg/XySM5na || Twitch Segui le nostre Live! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarrettJMorgan Posted December 30, 2023 Share Posted December 30, 2023 How do you go about adding the text for the canopy been trying to get that to work for the past few days to no success. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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