HUD Tint

I'd love to hear from some real Hornet guys confirming that they actually have to look around the hud in order to see because it's so dark.

You can see some coments on the closed thread before it was closed.

https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=3556953&postcount=106

So far i'Ve only did one for the Hornet and M-2000c, but i can see what i can do for the Harrier.

Thanks. The DCS Harrier has a dark tinted top half.

I want it to look like this.

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+1

thanks for the work of everyone involved

much more fun flying the F18 now!

I don't have the Hornet, but watching a few DCS videos, shows it to have the same distinct, dark 2nd upper glass, as the Harrier.

Watching this video, showed there to be, most definitely, a pink tint, but the dark 2nd screen is barely noticeable from the main screen and you can see through it clearly.

The front wind screen, is also tinted.

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Because the Tint is authentic.

 

I can physically verify this, as well as all the Hornet SMEs

Of course, it is authentic in the real Hornet to have some canopy/HUD tinting. But here's the problem, it is not authentic to be staring at a two dimensional screen with glowing pixels. When I play DCS, I'm not looking through a tinted HUD, I'm staring at a 2D screen filled with glowing pixels, and playing in 4K, which could be the start of a new visibility thread. :-)

I don't have the Hornet, but watching a few DCS videos, shows it to have the same distinct, dark 2nd upper glass, as the Harrier.

 

 

Watching this video, showed there to be, most definitely, a pink tint, but the dark 2nd screen is barely noticeable from the main screen and you can see through it clearly.

 

 

The front wind screen, is also tinted.

 

 

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Agreed you always have it a bit darker where both glasses overlaps, thats why in my mod i left the smalest glass a bit darker. What i am starting to wonder now is, there's a few models of HUD Glass for Hornet's model produced or whatever, as they maybe realised it was too dark and affect the view and came up with smoother tint ones which we see on most videos and pictures and ED got a references of an older one, dunno, but most of them are clear and a few ones as your videos, again lights depends i guess but still. As you can see in my video passed 11:00 for the rolling, the tint is not that noticable, somtimes yes when over the clouds and light background, not that that purpleish and mostly caused by the smalest glass overlaping the longest one, but again sometimes it lighter sometimes it's not, depends on the light reflection, which is not that implemented in DCS ending up with a always dark view. Anywas my mod wasn't to argue with ED'S job or make them tune it down, but simply to help people having issues like me with it by tuning it down, if they wanna keep it that way, at least we have mods as alternatives, which is the first mod i'Ve made that in less than 12 hours, it's already being downloaded 161 times, which says it all. Not all effects are reasy to reproduce in Sim, specialy when it comes to glass, windows, it always looks like transparent, too clean, or darker, got to say the Hornet's canopy got me freaking out with the result specialy in VR. :)

Trying to make a version of this for my own but I'm pretty new to DCS skinning. What format should I be saving the DDS files in in order to preserve the proper mapping, alpha and colors?

Trying to make a version of this for my own but I'm pretty new to DCS skinning. What format should I be saving the DDS files in in order to preserve the proper mapping, alpha and colors?

the same one. .DDS

I meant what format for the DDS. By default my photoshop plugin sets DXT1 RGB 4bpp no alpha. I think I've found a format thats working though anyway.

I meant what format for the DDS. By default my photoshop plugin sets DXT1 RGB 4bpp no alpha. I think I've found a format thats working though anyway.

DXT5

Hey Guys - Does anyone have a copy of the Original HUD tint DDS files, with the Original Tint when DCS F/A-18C was released by ED plz?

If so, would you be kind enough to send me a copy plz?

Thank you! :)