I just installed this, but might possibly not be able to use it. When I fire the guns, the cockpit does a rapid flicker of disappearance, with parts of the sky itself going jet black. Not good for epileptics!
Nonetheless, I've begun to make some tweaks, for the benefit of others:
1) I reversed the surface normals of the perspex, as is my usual practice. This makes the shmutz and scrapes more prominently seen when looking toward the Sun, due to the greater efficiency of forward scattering.
2) The glass.mat file has had the opacity reduced, so that the view through the perspex is not so milky/hazy/dimmed.
3) The specularity of the the glass has been greatly reduced. This is to eliminate the awful brightening of the canopy in reflection when the Sun is shining THROUGH the hull from UNDERNEATH. An impossible thing.
4) The view hooks have been moved farther forward, and the gunsight view moved a few mm upward to provide a better look-down angle through the reflector. Of course, one can easily edit the numbers to taste, or go back to the originals.
To do:
1) Expand the 6dof limits in the cockpit class. This will increase the range of virtual head movement.
2) Improve the gunsight reflector and sun shade glass textures so as to be less milky/hazy.
3) Add my collimating lens reflection.
4) Not sure about this, but... My impression is that the early C-12 sight reflector was basically square/rectangular, with slightly truncated corners. Here we see the later practice of the highly truncated corners. I suspect that the cockpit used as the model upon which to create this marvelous 'pit had a later sight installed. Should I go with the more squared reflector plate?
4) In the pic below, note that when the sun shade is raised there is a copy of the sub-assembly within which the sun shade carrier slides up/down. Here it rotates backward when the shade is raised. When lowered, the copy is precisely in the same place as the fixed one. This could be resolved by reducing the copy mesh to a single, invisible polygon. As part of the fix, the sun shade could be given the carrier, which is currently missing (there is ONLY the sun shade glass.)
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Topic: Arado Ar.196A-3 cockpits (Read 6257 times)
