150. Central Warning Panel (CWP) self-appear / manual-appear modes
Mod: Central Warning Panel now can appear automatically whenever the front cockpit attention getters are flashing
In earlier versions of FLIGHT.EXE, whenever I am in the Pilot's cockpit, I have to manually hit ScrollLock to view the CWP. I thought it would be nice to have the CWP automatically appear whenever some damage is inflicted on the Tornado. Also better would be an option for me to have the CWP appear by itself or manually by hitting ScrollLock. Therefore in Mod#150, I've modded the CWP to appear whenever the attention getters are flashing and blaring away which indicate damage or danger situations.
In the screenshot above, having earlier gone to Lookdown View with NumLock, I have toggled the self-appear (automatic appear) mode of the CWP to ON by htiting the 0 key. Then I returned to Tracking View with F1 and let the gear down. The CWP appears in a split-second as expected.
The user has an option to toggle the self-appearing CWP on or off. Here's what the new Lookdown View looks like:
When in the Lookdown View (NumLock), hit 0 to toggle between CWP self-appear and manual-appear modes.
The text formatting is also now more tidy and consistent Note key zero (0) to toggle the Central Warning Panel between auto-appear and manually-appear modes.
Additional bug fix:Right Yaw view is corrected by replacing Ctrl+2 with Shift+2 to yaw the aircraft view right in Tracking View. Earlier versions of FLIGHT.EXE would result in a conflict between Kenneth Larsen's Tornado Time Compression (TTC) TSR and the Ctrl+2 key combination. Whenever TTC was active, the external view of the Tornado refused to yaw to the right! I have solved this now by using Shift+2, instead of Ctrl+2, to yaw the view of the Tornado to the right.
Additional featureI added an additional view in the external multi-screen feature. To get there hit F1 for followed by "[" two times. The top-half of the screen shows your Tornado. This leaves you free to switch the bottom-half of the screen from the Tracking View to any other view (F3 Fly-by, V-key Weapon view, F2 Six-O'clock view, F4 Spectator view, Ctrl+Alt and Alt+Shift [AAA and SAM vehicle view], F5 Drone view, etc.).
Triple faceted multi-screen: (1) small FLIR (top-left); (2) Fixed axis half-screen FLIR (top-half) and
(3) adjustable horizon and rotatable half-screen external view (bottom-half) The beauty of this additional view is for once in Tornado, you can simultaneously view both 3D models of your Tornado and that of your wingman's (F5 view) or enemy plane (Key-6 toggles between allied and enemy planes/ground forces).
Download link to fully modded Tornado up to Mod#150, including the Tornado full game is here:
http://bit.ly/32hfggzLatest FLIGHT.EXE is attached to this post.
It's been a good run. That's all folks. Hanging up my modding shoes. Real Life's demands on my time require that I shift focus to family matters and to putting my kids through college. I didn't quite get around to putting a shadow under DI's Tornado, but in life you can't have everything. Perhaps someday this will be possible, through the talent, energy and creativity of you, random Internet user. Assembly Language is tough, but NOT too tough that one can't make a difference in the flight sim world. Not bad for someone who flunked his Assembly Language 101 in college. Looking back, I have thoroughly enjoyed modding Tornado these past two years. Having said the above, in the event that the FULL original source code of Tornado, its Operation Desert Storm (ODS) addon 1994 source code, or the original Amiga object and map designer tools of Digital Integration's Tornado are discovered or unearthed, I will be back for more stuff.
Until that happens, it's adieu from me.
TornadoMan, bugging out. THANK YOU to all who helped me out in this coding adventure...
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...and many others.
regards
Frankie Kam
http://www.moodurian.com/tornadohttp://www.moodurian.com2th September 2019