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#3361616 - 08/08/11 08:06 AM Black Brain?  
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Hi,

just wanted to ask if pilots arms or legs are visible inside the cockpit? If yes, will be there a Black Brain like in ED MACYs book?


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#3361823 - 08/08/11 02:39 PM Re: Black Brain? [Re: LcSummers]  
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Yes (sometimes) and no. In that order.

Crew models can get in the way of switches, what I'm doing atm is hiding them when you occupy the seat.

I don't think there's a need to include a virtual kneeboard just yet. I use sticky-notes smile


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#3362602 - 08/09/11 08:17 AM Re: Black Brain? [Re: LcSummers]  
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Thanks Flexman for your response.

SO i will wit and see.

S!

#3362764 - 08/09/11 02:24 PM Re: Black Brain? [Re: LcSummers]  
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BTW I really had mixed feelings about the book. Certainly it touches on a fundamental difference between the attitude of UK and US crews which is an important distinction and I highly recommend it for that reason.

Being from Yorkshire myself I had a good laugh at the crewman commenting on the helo returning without firing a shot, "Y're supposed to be fook'in attack pilots".

Other books I referenced during this project and make for good reading:

Hellfire (Ed Macy)
Dressed To Kill (Charlotte Madison)
Immediate Response (Mark Hammond)
Apache Dawn (Damien Lewis)


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#3362919 - 08/09/11 05:19 PM Re: Black Brain? [Re: LcSummers]  
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OT: I'm currently reading Apache and I'm thinking of ordering Hellfire too, is it worth it? About the same quality as Apache?

#3364310 - 08/11/11 10:08 AM Re: Black Brain? [Re: LcSummers]  
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Thank you Flex,

so i have something new to read. Great, loved EM book.

Cheers

#3365929 - 08/13/11 04:09 AM Re: Black Brain? [Re: LcSummers]  
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It's not a problem to add the pilot and CPG into the cockpits. However you'd really need a TIR and the controller animations would need to be locked in place. With some slight positioning adjustments it'd actually look pretty good. Animations could come later.




You can see how many of the switches in the CPG panel are blocked, actually some of them are blocked by the TEDAC anyway, but adding pilot models certainly makes operating the front seat more difficult.

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#3366062 - 08/13/11 10:30 AM Re: Black Brain? [Re: LcSummers]  
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There's a hot key "M" for MFD which toggles a panel in close-up (C to cycle through the ones in that station). The only one that isn't working is the TEDAC do to some axis alignment issue in the model. But that should be a 5 min job to fix once AD has the details on that.

I will hide the arms and head of the pilot when in the occupied station instead of the whole pilot, that will solve any occlusion problems.


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#3366108 - 08/13/11 01:33 PM Re: Black Brain? [Re: LcSummers]  
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Any chance we'll get snapviews?


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#3366123 - 08/13/11 02:14 PM Re: Black Brain? [Re: Dervish]  
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Originally Posted By: Scylla
Any chance we'll get snapviews?


Other than some fixed position looking at instruments, none have been added for cardinal views. Is that what you meant? It's no hardship to add them.


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