Artificial Horizon repairs

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Artificial Horizon repairs

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This not a Mod per se. It is more of a long needed fix.
HAZZIE helped out here to find the indicator that points to the numbers and graduations on top, which works now.

Here are two Artificial Horizons that are calibrated good.
The game only uses one texture (ARTHORIZ) for 3 different aircraft, the Spitfire, Hurricane and ME110.
What works for one aircraft does not work for the other two aircraft.

What we will do for v2.13 is make the one good for the Spitfire used by default.
I have made another ARTHORIZ texture good for the Hurricane, and OK for the ME110.
Will add into the COCKPITS folder an Arthoriz_Hurri texture that will not be used until rename the two ARTHORIZ textures.

COCKPITS folder will look like this:

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If you want to use the texture good for the Hurricane then you need to do this:
1. Rename ARTHORIZ to ARTHORIZ_Spit.
2. Rename ARTHORIZ_Hurri to ARTHORIZ.

The game will now use the one good for the Hurricane.

To go back and use the texture good for the Spitfire, do this:
1. Rename ARTHORIZ to ARTHORIZ_Hurri.
2. Rename ARTHORIZ_Spit to ARTHORIZ.

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Here is the Spitfire calibrated good:

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Here is the Hurricane no good, using a shared (whore) texture that is good for the Spitfire. Also a crappy old gauge face.
The ME110 Artificial Horizon lines are similarly offset:

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Here is the one good for the Hurricane, but no good for Spitfire:

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Here is the ME110 using the texture good for the Hurricane. It is off, but usable.
The moron German engineers put the ME110 artificial horizon down low behind the frigging joy stick!
Pilot has to lean over right a bit to see the damned thing! :evil:
I need to make a decent gauge face for it later, to line it up to the Hurri artificial horizon lines OK.

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These textures are not using radium paint.
If you want ones that do, I will supply them.

There is an obvious reason why I favored the Spitfire over the Hurricane when sharing this whore.
For those that consider the Hurricane the real "work horse" of the Battle of Britain and prefer to fly it,
I have supplied a working artificial horizon to use for you.

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The files are here. Artificial Horizons:

http://www.mediafire.com/download/xl7ts ... rizons.zip

Installation:

Extract all folders from the Zip into the BoBII root folder.

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