New Cockpit From Scratch (actually this time)

[BalkanBattler]

Recently, ED announced that they are using a revolutionary new technology called Photogrammetry for their upcoming MiG-29 full fidelity module. 

Given that the remastered F-5E cockpit is the same mesh as the old one and does not fit into the external model, I would like to request that ED re-build the F-5E cockpit to modern standards, scaled true to life compared to the real thing. Here are a few reasons why:

• ED's other cockpits are amazing. You could 1:1 replace an instrument in the F-18 or F-16 cockpits with a 3D scanned real life equivalent, and it would fit. They're amazing. The same cannot be said for the F-5 - all of the panels are incorrectly shaped in length and width and height at random intervals which are not consistent with the real pit. For example, the width of the main front panel is wrong compared to a real F-5E (I have the measurements for this panel and many others). This does not meet ED's own standards.
   
• The Cockpit is where DCS players spend 99% of their time when flying. While the external model is nice and helps you sell more modules, the cockpit is where players actually sit once they have given you the money.
   
• By scanning a real cockpit, you can finally be morally correct when you deny peoples requests for features we can finally agree on a single F-5E version. As it stands, our DCS franken-jet does not represent a single F-5E that ever existed, with that radio and lack of INS, it's not a Swiss F-5E, and with that RWR it is not a USAF F-5E-3. So you can finally pick one and be right. 
   
• Mixed reality: with the increasing popularity of the Quest 3 with color passthrough, mixed reality builders are having a field day with DCS. This helps DCS gain popularity online as people see what is probably the coolest flight combat sim experience ever! This is great with the F-16 and F-18 etc - but the F-5E cockpit does not line up with the real life jet, so this leads to a problem: Do you build a cockpit based on the real dimensions, or based on the DCS cockpit? Why do you have to choose, shouldn't they be the same? Look at projects like Authentekit, or the WinWing F-18 MFD's, there is an appetite for accurate 1:1 cockpits. This is impossible with the F-5E because the cockpit is not 1:1 to real life.

[Raven (Elysian Angel)]

Absolutely. I still can’t tell the difference between the old eternal model and the new, even when looking at side-by-side comparisons. But the cockpit model being the same old model with a “fresh coat of paint” is very obvious.

And as the thread you linked correctly identified: the main problem with the remastered release was all the lying and gaslighting that ED did.