Gyroscopic Gunsight?

[gavinc]

Hi all,
IIRC, the default P-51 in CFS1 had a gyroscopic gunsight.

I assume that this was in fact a gauge. If so has anyone managed to port it to CFS2?

I went looking for my CFS1 cd the other day to check this out but couldn't find it anywhere.

thanks
Gavin

[bearcat241]

Gavin, this is the default panel.cfg for the CFS1 P51D:

// Panel Configuration file
// Bf109

[Window Titles]
Window00=P51d -- Main Panel
Window01=P51d -- Engine Controls

[Window00]
file=Panel_Background_640.BMP
file_1024=Panel_Background_1024.BMP
position=7
size_mm=640,480
window_pos=0.0,0.0
window_size=1.000,1.000
render_3d_window=1
pixel_size=0,0
sizeable=1
visible=1
ident=MAIN_PANEL

gauge00=P51d!Airspeed,181,343
gauge01=P51d!Altimeter,181,413
gauge02=P51d!Attitude,323,343
gauge03=P51d!Boost_Pressure,395,351
gauge04=P51d!Clock,209,293
gauge05=P51d!Engine_Temperature,379,292
gauge06=P51d!Flaps,134,358
gauge07=P51d!Fuel,467,375
gauge08=P51d!Fuel_Selector,523,441
gauge09=P51d!Gear,75,458
gauge10=P51d!Heading_Indicator,253,329
gauge11=P51d!Magneto,88,411
gauge12=P51d!Oil_Pressure,467,426
gauge13=P51d!Starter,147,436
gauge14=P51d!Tachometer,395,413
gauge15=P51d!Turn_Indicator,253,413
gauge16=P51d!Vertical_Speed,323,413

[Window01]
file=Thrust_Lever_Background.BMP
position=6
size_mm=76,130
window_pos=0.0,0.730
window_size=0.118,0.271
sizeable=1
visible=0
ident=THROTTLE_PANEL

gauge00=P51d!thrust_controls,0,0

[VCockpit01]
file=
position=7
size_mm=256,256
window_pos=0.306,0.468
window_size=0.401,0.533
pixel_size=256,256
texture=$P51d
background_color=1,1,1
visible=0

gauge00=P51d!Airspeed,184,343,67,67
gauge01=P51d!Turn_Indicator,124,56,66,67
gauge02=P51d!Starter,124,13,16,41
gauge03=P51d!Magneto,141,9,47,46
gauge04=P51d!Gear,37,216,63,22
gauge05=P51d!Fuel,205,142,49,52
gauge06=P51d!Engine_Temperature,8,86,52,57
gauge07=P51d!Boost_Pressure,63,138,64,63
gauge08=P51d!Altimeter,189,76,67,67
gauge09=P51d!Vertical_Speed,61,74,63,63
gauge10=P51d!Tachometer,59,11,61,61
gauge11=P51d!Oil_Pressure,200,193,54,55
gauge12=P51d!Heading_Indicator,128,123,63,81
gauge13=P51d!Fuel_Selector,156,204,42,38
gauge14=P51d!Flaps,21,11,36,75
gauge15=P51d!Clock,101,201,46,47
gauge16=P51d!Attitude,0,145,66,70,FORCE_TRANS
gauge17=P51d!Airspeed,189,9,67,67

[8 Bit Colors]
PALETTE=PALETTE.BMP

[Default View]
X=0
Y=0
SIZE_X=8191
SIZE_Y=5000

Note that there is no dedicated gunsight gauge anywhere in the cfg, which leads one to deduce that any gyro sighting apparatus is either designed exclusively into the P-51 mdl file as a VC component or it resides in one of the dll modules in the MODULES folder and is only active for the Mustang model alone. I would suspect the former, since there are no dedicted dll's by name for the Mustang in the MODULES folder that would activate this in that single model. Now, of course, you can fly this CFS1 model in CFS2 without issues, but the CFS2 engine apparently doesn't support this exclusive VC gunsight feature and in 2D view will supersede it with the universal default gunsight64.bmp from the main Texture folder, which is applied to all of your models.

[Jagdflieger]

Back in the early days of CFS 2, many bemoned the loss of the gyro sight. I don't think anyone solved how to make it work in CFS 2.

Wolfi has a neat work around gyro sight for his beta Panther jet that is dependent on rudder and elevator input. It works very well and would be a great addition to our mustangs. I'm not sure how he made it, but perhaps he'll see this thread and tell us.

[gavinc]

Bear, Jagd - thanks for the info - it has been many moons since I flew in CFS1.

[wolfi]

Back in the early days of CFS 2, many bemoned the loss of the gyro sight. I don't think anyone solved how to make it work in CFS 2.

Wolfi has a neat work around gyro sight for his beta Panther jet that is dependent on rudder and elevator input. It works very well and would be a great addition to our mustangs. I'm not sure how he made it, but perhaps he'll see this thread and tell us.



Jagd is right, it's a combination with rudder and elevator and it works only in VC view, I made it for my Beta ki44 also (there you have activate the Concorde nose key's) It was not easy to assemble but works fine with the panther, the ki44 need still a bit adjustment.
Just for information, I'm working again at my models but have to relearn a lot because I haven't worked with FSDS2 very much through the last year. So if there are updates I will post pictures here at Sim-Outhouse.