Very nice plane!
Here are a few quick cockpit tweaks:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/xdzso4i9x66kj98/Curtiss_F11C_Goshawk_HawkII_tweaks_WxTech.7z/fileFrom the included readme file:
A few quick fixes for the F11C HawkII cockpit, by WxTech
This small update addresses a few of the more immediate concerns I had upon first taking this bird for a spin, and which could be executed quickly and with little effort. The main beneficiary of this is the player who uses a 6dof capable head tracking device. But if you don't have such a piece of kit, you may still make use of all the altered files here; certainly so for target.msh and reticle.tga.
The fixes:
- Expanded the 6dof limits in the cockpit class. This applies to 4.12 and later.
- Repositioned the CAMERA hook position accordingly (moved a little farther forward.)
- Raised the height of the iron sight's rear post, so that now alignment is achieved when the top of the post appears to be touching the lower edge of the central ring. (Previously the top of the post would be clearly below the central ring.)
- Replaced the crude ring sight graphic with a higher resolution texture having thinner rings.
Due to the possibility of players having renamed this plane's mod folder name, I did not bother to adhere to it, instead giving this folder a unique name. Besides, you won't be plunking this folder in your mods folder. Instead, it's best to manually copy over the new files supplied here into the existing, relevant folder. You can disable the original files by adding a "-" character at the beginning of their names.
The three classfiles here are for the cockpit class, and I include my altered .java file (differing only by the addition of the 6dof limits code.) If you are installing this to a pre-4.12 game, where the 6dof limits code was not yet implemented, you will have to ignore these three classfiles.
In the Hawk_2 folder are:
- Body.msh, which has my repositioned CAMERA hook (for the 'normal' pilot viewpoint). If you don't have a 6dof head tracker, ignore this (unless you would like to set your own view hook positions.)
- target.msh, which has the raised rear post on the iron sight.
- reticle.tga, which is the larger and better texture for the front ring on the iron sight.
WxTech
Aug 17, 2022