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#4269452 - 06/12/16 08:08 PM Re: Instrument Gauges fuzzy or blurry (un readable)? [Re: MarkEAW]  
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I was excited doing new gauges for a p38 in the 1.40 cause the gauge was wrong in one area. I thought it would be easy but it was beyond me I think I concluded.

I still have the P38 gauge images, most are from the CFS game, expect for one or two I had to get real world image and modified it. If you want them I'll send them to you, if not for sh*ts and giggles.

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#4269467 - 06/12/16 09:10 PM Re: Instrument Gauges fuzzy or blurry (un readable)? [Re: MarkEAW]  
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Hi Mark !

What kind of problem did you run into for making gauges? I have a pretty sizable collection of reference photos as well as gauges built from scratch for British, Russian, German and Japanese aircraft. For some reason I never got around to doing the American gauges but they are fairly simple to make if you have Photoshop, but they are tedious if they have a lot of hashmarks.

If you are looking to mod the panels, I would be more than happy to guide you through using the cockpit editor and the VCG files. I have extensive documentation for the PVIEW files too if you want to hack them in hex code.

I wouldn't mind having a look at the gauges you have, I will PM you with my address. I use gauges from other games as a reference rather than as a working image because if they are from screenshots they may have a bit of distortion to them.

Let me know if I can help !

Cheers!

CJ


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And see these English planes go burn...." Blue Oyster Cult

#4269469 - 06/12/16 09:32 PM Re: Instrument Gauges fuzzy or blurry (un readable)? [Re: MarkEAW]  
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I'm not into it anymore, I couldn't understand why the images when shrunk lost so much detail. a 512x512 pcx would work great if the game supported them tho.

The archive I sent you may not even contain the pcx I was actually working on. I may have been to discourage and deleted it.


EDIT: looks like I was playing with the planeX bmp by centering the gauges on existing dials as a guide. Think I used a semi transparent mask when I was placing the dials so I could see where the cent was on the old ones.

Its pretty amateur work I have to say.


EDIT2: looks like I enlarged the numerals on all the dials as well. I guess I did do alot more than I originally thought.

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#4269499 - 06/12/16 11:48 PM Re: Instrument Gauges fuzzy or blurry (un readable)? [Re: MarkEAW]  
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So?

Baby steps before running...

Stumble and fall, then get up and try again...

Do not give up, you can and will crack the problems. yep

#4269532 - 06/13/16 02:24 AM Re: Instrument Gauges fuzzy or blurry (un readable)? [Re: MarkEAW]  
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Hi Mark,I have factory drawings for the P38 panel if you are interested..

#4269567 - 06/13/16 03:44 AM Re: Instrument Gauges fuzzy or blurry (un readable)? [Re: MarkEAW]  
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I'd love to have copies of any of that sort of thing as well...


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And see these English planes go burn...." Blue Oyster Cult

#4269585 - 06/13/16 06:56 AM Re: Instrument Gauges fuzzy or blurry (un readable)? [Re: MarkEAW]  
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This do?Unsure of model though.US gauges only use a couple of diameter instrument cases and bezels so only thing to draw up are the faces.

#4269672 - 06/13/16 03:33 PM Re: Instrument Gauges fuzzy or blurry (un readable)? [Re: MarkEAW]  
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Found this one, looks different.

http://www.lonesentry.com/blog/p-38-instrument-panel.html



EDIT: The more I look at it, it doesn't look like a p38 cockpit.

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#4269847 - 06/14/16 12:30 AM Re: Instrument Gauges fuzzy or blurry (un readable)? [Re: MarkEAW]  
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It's a P-38.Here's a P-38 L to compare it to. Notice the shape of the panel:



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And see these English planes go burn...." Blue Oyster Cult

#4270224 - 06/15/16 04:49 AM Re: Instrument Gauges fuzzy or blurry (un readable)? [Re: MarkEAW]  
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Might be a later version.Try this one

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