Sorry to hear the sad news. I hope Jan won't mind too much if I post this recipe to merge V1 cockpit with V2 exterior.
The ingredients:
C-47 Skytrain V2 by Manfred Jahn, Alexander M. Metzger, Hansjoerg Naegele, Ted Wolfgang (here at SOH)
C-47 Skytrain Interior Model Tweak (with correct wing view) by Manfred Jahn and Marvin Carter: c47_interior.zip @ flightsim
Optional ingredients:
DC-3 Widescreen 2D Panel by Luiz Alvarenga: ws2d-panel-dc-3.zip @ flightsim
DC-3 New Virtual Cockpit Textures by Hani Michal: fsx_dc-3_new_vc.zip @ flightsim
The recipe:
In folder "model.C47_1", my model.cfg file looks like this:
Code:
[models]
normal=C47R_1
interior=C47_interior
For "model.C47_2" replace C47R_1 by C47R_2
My texture.cfg files look like this, adjust as you like ("Clean" instead of "Weathered" for example):
Code:
[fltsim]
fallback.1=..\Texture
fallback.2=..\Texture.Weathered
fallback.3=..\..\Douglas_DC3\texture
fallback.4=..\..\..\..\Texture
fallback.5=..\..\..\..\Scenery\Global\texture
In each texture folder, or in the shared "texture" folder, drop your favorite Hani Michal's cockpit textures (Douglas_DC3_1_C.dds & Douglas_DC3_2_C.dds), but keep the fallback.3 to the default DC-3 for the necessary additionnal VC textures (overhead and such).
For the panel, it's basicaly the default DC-3 version (regular 4:3 or Luiz Alvarenga's widescreen 16:9 version). I'm pretty sure all of you have 16:9 or 16:10 monitors, so why live with oval gauges? Luiz widescreen panels are great (he did a very nice 737 too).
For this C-47 v1/v2 mix to work, move to your C-47 panel folder the Douglas_C47.dll and C47.CAB gauge files (from Manfred's C-47 V2), you need also panel.cfg, Douglas_DC3.cab, Panel_Decals_DC3_1.bmp & Panel_Decals_DC3_2.bmp from the default DC-3, and DC3_background.bmp & DC3_background_night.bmp from Luiz's panel, or from default DC-3 if you really insist on keeping the 4:3 panel. Then add these 2 lines in the "Vcockpit01" section of panel.cfg:
Code:
gauge30=C47!Sim_C47, 0,1,1,1
gauge31=Douglas_C47!Main, 1,0,1,1
Not sure what these 2 lines do, but you won't be able to start the C-47 without "C47!Sim_C47". I really don't know if "Douglas_C47!Main" is necessary. My C-47 works better without it.
Adjust eyepoint in aircraft.cfg: eyepoint = -7.0, -1.4, 3.26
Et voilà!
I may have missed something, but with a bit of D.I.Y. you'll sort it out...
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