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FS2004 Sunshade

I was actually able to download some beautiful clipart of dot patterns and even reverse them and color them BUT...they are all too large and even though I have a utube how to match them andreduce them, they were still not perfect and they still did not satisfy me. I am still working on this and seems I peaked others interest for visors here. I will keep posting and trying and keeping up with this thread. Thank you for the Photoshop brush site. It's fantastic!!!
 
tried several patterns, still think this one is best:
green bmp and crossing hor. and vert. black lines.
size 1 px
take care with copy and paste

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i use 1280x960 and so is the resolution of the sunshade/hud.
may be you made it bigger or smaller in the panel.cfg.
use only 1x1.

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looks far better in the sim
 
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It looks very well, even out of the sim!

I use 1280x1024x32 resolution and my panel .cfg says

[Window22]

size_mm=669,390
window_size_ratio=1.000
file=Sun Visor.bmp
window_pos=0.100, 0.001
visible=0
ident=9292

The bmp is 669X390 pixels.

Walter
 
ah,

that is different.
i use it in a gauge, size 1280x960.
what you see is
1. the panel 1280x960
2. the hud 1280x960
all in 1 window

here panel.cfg:

[Window01]
BACKGROUND_COLOR=0,0,0
size_mm=1280,960
window_size_ratio=1.00
position=0
visible=1
sizeable=1
zorder=2
ident=MINIPANEL

gauge00=787!787 landing vieuw, 0, 0
gauge01=787!787 hud, 0,-240
 
Well, I created a gauge to display the same bmp, called from the Main Panel. It looked the same as before unfortunately.

I spent a lot of time today trying out different patterns and different sizes of dots and couldn't get it anything to look any way as good as your HUD.

So, phjvh, I have reverted back to my Window Sun Visor. I can only hope that I won't encounter too many blinding sunny days while flying and therefore won't have to lower my curtain-like shade :)

I will just be jealous of your HUD forever...

Thanks for sharing code and bmp.

Walter
 
Unfortunately this HUD fix needs a very high res. Otherwise individual pixels render the image opaque
or set up moiree lines.
I tried something similar some time ago to simulate smoke in the cockpit.
I couldn't get it to look anything other than a series of dots.
vololiberista
 
One by one we fall by the wayside...maybe someone in ACES team of msfs gurus will pick up this thread and tell us the "secret code" in FS2004 preventing the shade of the 3D world properly. I get mush with my halftone screen too.
 
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