Clean Gunsight Glass

[Squiffy]

Hi guys,

I've been messing around with the cockpit textures after installing the Early Black cockpit mod yesterday. Out of the box, the glass in the black mod looks better to me than stock, since it doesn't reflect as much of the lens and greasy glare that makes sniping bandits in vertical, near zero g, AI hammer head defensive climbs more difficult. So far I have found several textures and one in particular may have the most impact. But getting them to load in game is still a challenge since I'm not very experienced with creating texture mods in DCS.

Here are the texture files I think are involved:

C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta\Mods\aircraft\F-86\Liveries\Cockpit_F-86F Sabre

F-86F_Cockpit_ILS.dds

F-86F_Cockpit_Texture2.dds

F-86F_Cockpit_Texture2_SPEC.dds

F-86F_cpt_L.dds

F-86F_cpt_L_SPEC.dds

This last one, cpt_L_SPEC is an alpha channel in one layer (specular). The one before it, cpt_L may be the primary one creating the reflection. It has a base texture AND and alpha, filtering the projector lens image however is designed in the model. I think this is the main method of creating the reflection visible to the pilot. This I would like to minimize as much as possible.

I have tried several places to get my modded files to load:

1. In the Early Black mod folder by swapping filenames with stock to tell them apart.

2. In the Early Black mod, in the cockpit folder instead of liveries

3. In my save game folder under the mods/aircraft with a new cockpit folder, in folder or in a zip.

I am pretty sure I would need to change some other files like luas and such.

Can anyone help or suggest the best place to start? I used to paint and mod a lot in the CFS3, Roman BOB-MiG Alley days and have just gotten back into it. DXTbmp still works!

Thanks!

 

 

[TAIPAN_]

I've made a small mod https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3325546/

It doesn't remove the gunsight reflection totally, but it is reduced because I'm using the old reflections file from old DCS version.

Some other changes made to improve visibility:

-Reduced scratches (edited the normal map).

-Removed tint from gunsight (thanks to the blank file in your other thread from lee1hy).

-Removed dive lines, by cutting the same file from lee1hy down to the right size.

Feel free to use this as a base for further changes.