Chinese Lunar New Year 2020 Mod Goodies - a major update160. Lunar New Year updates
Mod: New features to celebrate the Chinese New Year 2020
I've added some modifications. Just a tad.
1. I enabled the Indirect Mode ALARM to dive with its secondary motor firing away and accelerating earth-bound. Basically, I managed to implement this Tornado 1.0E feature by modding the Tornado 1.0A version of the source code.
From loiter to dive. The Shilka is seconds away from doom 2. I changed the inner-colour of the ALARM Indirect Mode parachute to from white to gray. Looks more 'realistic' now.
Darker shade of colour for inner parachute section. More 3D-ish. 3. I restored the
4 key to clear (disable) the clouds and stars. It's nice to once again just clear the skies of clouds which tend to get in the way, visually.
4. I changed the Roll/Heading toggle key on the external views' bottom status bar from '4' to
Shift+4.
5. Previously after hitting
F1 (External View), you would tediously cycle among 20 different subviews with
'[' and
']' keys. Now I have trimmed and simplified the subviews to just 11 choice functionality:
SubView Subview Description
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(00) Tracking View with Route Display Overlay - auto switches to imminent SAM Intercept view when the the SAM close-proximity alarm goes off
(01) Tracking View with Route Display Overlay - Weapons external view - auto switches to imminent SAM Intercept view when the the SAM close-proximity alarm goes off
(02) Tracking View with Route Display Overlay - CCIP / weapons view / F1 triple window view - auto switches to imminent SAM Intercept view when the the SAM close-proximity alarm goes off
(03) Tracking View with Route Display Overlay - Target Area view - auto switches to imminent SAM Intercept view when the the SAM close-proximity alarm goes off
(04) Tracking View with
Ground Radar / Scrollable Map TV-TAB toggle, synchronised with 3D view of external environment
(05) Tracking View with
SAM launch / AAA firing TV-TAB toggle - auto switches to imminent SAM Intercept view when the the SAM close-proximity alarm goes off
(06) Tracking View with
Ground Radar / Air Radar TV-TAB toggle
(07) Tracking View with
Scrollable Map / Local Map TV-TAB toggle
(08) Tracking View with
FLIR / TIALD TV-TAB toggle
(09) Tracking View with
ILS / AFDS display TV-TAB toggle, accompanied by Horizontal Situation Indicator, Left & Right Engine R.P.M. indicators and Secondary Control Indicators
(10) F1 original Tracking View (no-frills)
6. For each subview, I have added
Shift+8 as an on/off toggle of a half-screen-HUD view. You can also toggle the Altitude Direction Indicator (a.k.a. the Artifical Horizon) on/off with Shift+7
Hit Shift+8 to enable the half-screen-HUD view, as well as the E0Scope view (bottom-right). Hit Shift+7 for the ADI.
7. For each subview, I have added
Shift+Tab as a dual TV-TAB toggle that allows you to switch between two fixed TV-TABs (both located at the top-left corner of the external view screen)
8. In subview 04 (i.e., hit
F1 followed by
']' key three times in succession), as you move your mouse cursor of either the Ground Radar or the Scrollable Map View, the external view (top half of the screen) will update its 3D environment instantaneously! A Frankie innovation.
The upper half of the screen will pan around, according to the position of your mouse cursor on the Scrollable Map That's all folks.