Some help with a Tomcat cockpit overhaul please :)

[JetCat]

Hi pilots,

I am currently giving the Tomcat cockpit a nice refresh, but some problems occured......

1.) The HUD camera recorder panel on the right side was outstanding ugly with all this botched duct-tape labeling and does not really fit into the rest of the overall cockpit design. That´s why I have changed it to make it look better, but unfortunately I cannot find a picture of this panel anywhere on the internet to have a template ... so I simply don´t know how this panel looks like under the tons of ugly duct-tape has anyone a picture of this panel please? I really need a real picture to make a photoreal looking new panel including the red night illumination.

2.) More grimy duct tape nonsensically glued all over the cockpit ruined the canopy and the RIO cockpit frame, that´s why I have removed it. But not my HUD camera recorder panel nor my new cleaned up canopy frame (gloriously freed from all this duct-tape) is showing up in the sim when copying the new textures into my install folder:

J:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\DCSWorld\Mods\aircraft\F14\Textures\Color

Can anyone please tell me what I am doing wrong?

Have a nice week and thanks for the tips

 

[JetCat]

Finally everything went perfectly fine. Now a few small texture glitches are fixed, and the main target has been achieved:

I have removed these annyoing coloured tapes all over the cockpit and canopy to have a more minimalistic and clean looking cockpit, and bugfixed a few small texture glitches

The newer panels without that ugly labeling tape (of course with nice red night lighting) are also ready but I cannot get these to function properly in the cat pit. I have checked all cockpit texture files five times already and this red tape on the video panel can nowhere be found on any of the texture files - but still it shows up inside the cockpit after changing the files!

So unless someone gives a little hint what I am doing wrong I cannot finish this VTR video tape recorder panel including night lighting you see on the last screenshot

 

The new duct-tape free Catpit mod is now finished. Ehm ALMOST duct-tape free, I was not yet able to make new VTR panels.

Enjoy:

https://ufile.io/dr8ed3c6

Install:

Open your install path with the cockpit textures of your precious flying cat, mine is:

J:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\DCSWorld\Mods\aircraft\F14\Textures\Color

and make a backup of these textures. Afterwards overwrite the zipped folder content from my mod. Voilá duct-tape be gone (plus I have fixed some minor small texture glitches on the clipboard-paper and on a few screws - just for the sake of perfection. Otherwise this masterpiece of art of a cockpit was left of course untouched.

Sorry I don´t know how to write a description.lua that´s why my install is a little bit more direct and invasive, be aware that installing this mod will break a DCS-store bought multiplayer Tomcat. On my Steam version this little cockpit enhancement runs flawless. That´s why always make a backup before modifying anything, very important! Otherwise you have to re-download the F-14 again (not a big problem but still annoying if it happens.) I don´t fly or play anything multiplayer so be aware this this probably won´t function if you fly multiplayer.

 

Edited June 8, 2023 by JetCat