New reticles for US N9 gunsights

This mod installs new gunsight reticles for the US N9 gunsight. It gets the "bright" treatment by using Sojka's original Reticle.mat file. Many thanks to him; Sojka introduced the original bright reticles concept and showed us what they could look like.

This reticle is resized to reflect a range of 200m instead of the stock 100m so it appears smaller than the original.
http://files.filefront.com/Reticle+US+N9+200mrar/;9600995;/fileinfo.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/91466014/Reticle_US_N9_200m.rar

This reticle is the default 100m size
http://files.filefront.com/Reticle+US+N9+100mrar/;9609805;/fileinfo.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/91465743/Reticle_US_N9_100m.rar

This reticle is the default 100m size for the P-51D with K14 gunsight
http://files.filefront.com/P+51D+20K14rar/;9612961;/fileinfo.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/91466365/P-51D-20_K14_.rar

Remember the new wrapper loads folders in alphabetical order with the first loading and any subsequent duplicate files are disregarded. If you have any conflicts check to see if another Mods/3do/cockpit/ file is loading before this one.

To install: extract and copy one or both to your Mods folder.
To uninstall: either rename the folder to begin with a - to deactivate it or just delete it entirely.

You can switch between them by using the "-" method. If you install both as they are then the 100m loads first and the 200m folder is ignored.

If you are not using the new wrapper system you really should be. Just download and follow the installation directions.

Feedback is welcome. Constructive criticism is part of the beta process. You will not hurt my feelings. Believe me, I can take whatever you can dish out. My ex wife is a lawyer.

Good luck and have fun!

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By catahoulak9 Reticle_US_N9_200m

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Last edited by Catahoulak9 on Wed Feb 13, 2008 10:06 pm; edited 5 times in total

Forgive me asking mate, but I asume the pilot in the real aircraft had the ability to re-size the reticle to set it at 200.. but we can't do that manualy in game..

This was the one I was waiting for, but... isn't there any way of doing this reticle respecting the original side? Oh, please, do it.

Mhm... You still lost alpha channel. I don't know that we need, but in original *tga's is alpha channel.

Thanks I like these new Reticles. Once I installed them I got the idea to add them to the
P-51d(K14) so so I renamed the files then I decided to add the reticl1 mat and tga files
from the Spitfire gyro sight which gave me the btightened effect on my P-51 gyro sight.

Trooper117,
Yes the pilot set the range on the sight. It is adjustable in the game on the K-14. I wish somone would apply that to allow incremental adjustments on the N9 sight. I'm sure it can be done, I just don't know enough to do it.

Sorry Trooper, I was wrong about the adjustment on the gunsight. See Coster's post on page 3 here. Catahoulak9

mayestdo,
Sure I'll do the original size and post it later. Look for Reticle_US_N9_100m in the first post on this thread.

ranwers,
The first tga's were in RGB Color mode. The new set I changed to Indexed Color to reduce their size a little. If you open them in Photoshop and change from indexed color to RGB color you get the red, green, blue, and alpha channel back. By the way, I truly admire your work, especially the Spit. Many thanks.

gbollin,
Hot Damn! Can't wait to try this. I hope it works for the P-47 too.

Naval Aviators,
Soon. Very soon.

Last edited by Catahoulak9 on Sat Mar 29, 2008 1:33 pm; edited 1 time in total

It works for the P-47 also . I want to try it on the P-80 too.

Try this one for your P-51D(K14) gbollin.

http://files.filefront.com/P+51D+20K14rar/;9612961;/fileinfo.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/91466365/P-51D-20_K14_.rar

I used the 100m size reticle and worked on the Reticle1.tga files a little to get a better color and intensity match. I think it looks a lot better now. I haven't tried the P-80 but I'm sure it will work on all K-14 sight planes.

To adapt the K-14's ability to turn the reticle on and off and resize it for different ranges on the N9 sight would be a worthy project for someone to take on. I afraid that's beyond my abilities but surely not that difficult for some of the mod wizards here.

Last edited by Catahoulak9 on Wed Feb 13, 2008 8:20 am; edited 1 time in total

Thank you very much, Catahoulak9. It works perfectly well

Thanks they look great. I found the cockpit file to use for the P-80 and I added it to that also.
I made a file folder called US_K14sights added the 3do file folder and the cokpit file folder
containing P-51-D20(K14), P-47D-25 and the YP-80 folders Iadded the files you provideded
and they worked great for all three planes. One thing I niticed is that the P-47D is missing
the reflector glass in the sight but that is problem from the origional Mod for the P-47.

Any chance of a different link? Filefront is a no brainer for me!

All my posts now have a rapidshare alternative link.

Just wondering if someone could post a screen shot of the new sights

Please bare with me, I'll get pictures up a little later.

By catahoulak9 Reticle_US_N9_200m

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