updated cockpit

[peachmonkey]

The recent 2.9.6 update pleasantly surprised me with the updated cockpit for Anton, which wasn't even announced in the patch notes.

It looks stunning, I'm at loss of words. High resolution textures, mixed in with the reflections and some sort of lighting changes make it look like a totally different plane now. The leather padding looks like it's covered in velvet .   The cockpit lighting is no longer blue either, it's yellowish and more fitting the ww2 era..

Kudos, ED, @BIGNEWY! Awesome job!

It seems ED also added some tint to the cockpit glass, still adjusting to it, but nonetheless an interesting change!

Edited July 13, 2024 by peachmonkey

[Rudel_chw]

5 minutes ago, peachmonkey said:

The recent 2.9.6 update pleasantly surprised me with the updated cockpit for Anton, which wasn't even announced in the patch notes.

 

Thanks a lot for the heads-up 

[Dr_Molenbeek]

[wolfstriked]

[Art-J]

OK, I know there's always lots of new stuff not being mentioned in patch changelogs but this one takes the cake. 

Thanks for the heads-up from me as well! I use one of cockpit retexture mods for Anton, so I don't know how long it would take me to discover the stock ones have been redone.

[kablamoman]

It's not just the cockpit textures, but they fixed the geometry on the glareshield as well!

Phenomenal work!

 

[Nirvi]

Any screens of the updated pit? The one above is too dark to make out any details

[Brigg]

Yeah +1 to Nirvi's post

[Slippa]

Well I’m buggered, they slipped in a cheeky one eh? Nice.

Cheers for the nod Peachmonkey. Nice to get some good news. Thanks for the tinkering too Mister Tinkerer Esq. 

This is the only prop I own that I’ve never flown. I’ve had it for a couple of years as I got a lot of modules early on then worked my way through learning to fly em. I think I’ve set some basic bindings for it but I’ve never even had it running. Maybe now’s a good time to start converting.

[peachmonkey]

50 minutes ago, Slippa said:

Well I’m buggered, they slipped in a cheeky one eh? Nice.

Cheers for the nod Peachmonkey. Nice to get some good news. Thanks for the tinkering too Mister Tinkerer Esq. 

This is the only prop I own that I’ve never flown. I’ve had it for a couple of years as I got a lot of modules early on then worked my way through learning to fly em. I think I’ve set some basic bindings for it but I’ve never even had it running. Maybe now’s a good time to start converting.

if you want to get into A2G business then A8 is the way to go. You get 1 bomb + 2 rockets as a load out (obviously it's nothing compared to the blue planes, but still), and a radial motor that outlasts any other plane if damaged, it's extremely survivable, talking about flying 15-20 minutes with no oil and 1-2 cylinders shot out, it's pretty fun to nurse it back to home with all the damage.

It's also decent in the dog-fights. You can easily take on the P47, and the noob-medium p51s.  With 4 cannons + machine guns you can kill any plane head-on.

The only advice I can give you is if you want to be great with its gunnery then learn it with the tracer-less ammo. You'll see better where you shots land on the ground and you can adjust it accordingly (walking it). The same with the dog-fights, you'll get a much better idea for deflection shots, etc.

[Slippa]

Haven't tried the Anton yet but have had a couple of flights in the Dora now.

It's pretty solid, no trouble with it but haven't flown it in anger. I'll try the pair of em more now I've broken the hangar door on em and yeah, the cockpit looks better .

[peachmonkey]

11 minutes ago, Slippa said:

Haven't tried the Anton yet but have had a couple of flights in the Dora now.

It's pretty solid, no trouble with it but haven't flown it in anger. I'll try the pair of em more now I've broken the hangar door on em and yeah, the cockpit looks better .

Dora is awesome as well, but the gunnery on it.. well, you really gotta learn it, especially in upclose encounters. It looks as if the cannon rounds exit the barrel at a slight incline, i.e. they aren't centered on the center of the sigh/crosshair, but 2-3mm above it; or it maybe the sight center is simply lowered. I understand it's specifically to deal with long 300-400m shots, but in DCS nobody shoots from that far    But it definitely has lots of speed necessary to fight with the p51, and outruns all other blues without problems. Just don't turn with it. Boom/zoom only.

[Doughguy]

On 7/18/2024 at 10:38 PM, peachmonkey said:

Dora is awesome as well, but the gunnery on it.. well, you really gotta learn it, especially in upclose encounters. It looks as if the cannon rounds exit the barrel at a slight incline, i.e. they aren't centered on the center of the sigh/crosshair, but 2-3mm above it; or it maybe the sight center is simply lowered. I understand it's specifically to deal with long 300-400m shots, but in DCS nobody shoots from that far    But it definitely has lots of speed necessary to fight with the p51, and outruns all other blues without problems. Just don't turn with it. Boom/zoom only.

Youd be surprised how well shots from 600m plus work if all is set up right.

Thats the convergence for the doras cannons.

Fireing at 300m is most convenient imom

[Tea-Pig]

I agree that the new cockpit textures are a nice surprise. There's also so nice scratched perspex look on the canopy glazing that I've never noticed before. However I'm getting a problem with the canopy reflections which are too strong and don't respond to the slider in the menu. The reflections also flicker when I move my head (VR). Anyone else seeing this or just me? Other aircraft seem ok.

Spotting dots seem to have had some attention too.

Edited July 20, 2024 by Tea-Pig

[Art-J]

On 7/18/2024 at 1:45 PM, Brigg said:

Yeah +1 to Nirvi's post

1 screen attached below for general fisheye overview.

I agree windscreen and canopy reflections perhaps might have been made stronger (?), although I haven't flown Anton in a while before 2.9.6 to remember how they were before.

They do become a problem now when the sun is low and you've got it behind your back. In default cold start mission on Channel map I could barely see the runway during landing approach as the whole windscreen became only partially transparent with a thick relflection plastered all over it. Can't imagine spotting any targets in similar conditions.

 

[Dreams]

I Absolutely Love the new cockpit textures too! The only thing I noticed is I seem to have lost the pilot body. Is anyone else having this problem?

[Nirvi]

Anton never had a Pilot body. We are still waiting for it. 

[Dreams]

Lol! you are correct. I just went back and looked at some of my older pictures of the Anton, and no pilot body. I haven't been flying it recently and forgot. Thanks. Guess I remembered the pilot body in the BF-109. With the new cockpit textures and when we get a pilot body it will be Perfect! 

[lee1hy]

This is the update we want 

[Tzigy]

On 7/13/2024 at 11:18 AM, peachmonkey said:

The recent 2.9.6 update pleasantly surprised me with the updated cockpit for Anton, which wasn't even announced in the patch notes.

It looks stunning, I'm at loss of words. High resolution textures, mixed in with the reflections and some sort of lighting changes make it look like a totally different plane now. The leather padding looks like it's covered in velvet .   The cockpit lighting is no longer blue either, it's yellowish and more fitting the ww2 era..

Kudos, ED, @BIGNEWY! Awesome job!

It seems ED also added some tint to the cockpit glass, still adjusting to it, but nonetheless an interesting change!

 

Had no idea! Just tried again yesterday. Beautiful! The previous scheme was awful. Only one little criticism...  the instrument casing material plastic really was mostly black.  Not sure where the artists got their reference from. Depending on the manufacturer there were certainly some casings that were made from more of a reddish/ maroonish bakelite material but these were I believe few and far in between. But still, overall, magnificent!

[Quetzalkoatl]

I'll throw some more screenshots 

I think it looks amazing now, although there's one more thing left to do...

External liveries need to have it updated, different colour on the padding may be enough:

[RyanR]

Nice... but canopy is sooooo hazy.

-Ryan

[Customizer171]

Is it only me that have this bright red/orange edge around the canopy?

It looks very unnatural to me but maybe that's correct?

[Doughguy]

It was there. Primer.

Edited October 12, 2024 by Doughguy

[Customizer171]

On 10/12/2024 at 11:59 AM, Doughguy said:

It was there. Primer.

Thanks for that information.

It doesn't exist in any of the other warbirds, including the FW 190 D9.

That's why I thought maybe something was wrong.