I am trying to create a Norden Bombsight for my own use. I have a bmp of the bombsight. It has an open area with the crosshairs. The problem is that the view around the crosshairs is forward and not down. I have tried to get a down or semi down view with no success. I saw a bombsight for CFS2 but it did not have any way to look down. It would be great if I could find a gauge to put on the bombsight to allow various look down angles. Any help sure would be appreciated.

Some time back someone told how to put a bmp in a CameraDefinition but I can't find it now.

Bob.

I made a camera definition too look down at 45° ahead. I cannot get it to show in FSX. Here is my camera definition: Why won't it show up? I plan to open the bombsight window when I have the view ahead.

 

[CameraDefinition.004]
Title = View Looking Down
Guid = {8BD44C77-54DA-4ac9-A128-8B24A4AA6566}
Origin = Center
SnapPbhAdjust = Swivel
SnapPbhReturn = False
PanPbhAdjust = Swivel
PanPbhReturn = False
Track = None
ShowAxis = No
AllowZoom = TRUE
InitialZoom = 0.6
SmoothZoomTime = 2.0
ZoomPanScalar = 1.0
ShowWeather = Yes
XyzAdjust = True
ShowLensFlare=FALSE
Category = Cockpit
MomentumEffect = No
PitchPanRate=20
HeadingPanRate=60
InitialXyz= 0.0, -4.0, 0.0
InitialPbh= -45, 0, 0

 

Thanks, Bob.

If you search "FSX bombsight" there are several freeware and payware models that have "bombsights". Perhaps you could study one of those?

 

Hi. OK. Thanks. I'll look for it. Bob.

You can use a version of the FS9 "view" used in the "Spirit of St. Louis" periscope. For FSX only as it will fail in P3D.
It requires 3 layers to be part of the gauge & 1 requisite as part of the panel.cfg window.
1) The panel window must have a background of 0,0,0
Gauge requisites, ( #s 2 thru 4, must be in gauge) layered from background to foreground -
2) A background bitmap, with the color of 0,0,0 & the same size (or larger) & location of the following script.
3) The script -

<Element Name="THE VIEW">
	<Position X="124" Y="45"/>
	<CustomDraw Name="fs9view:view" X="197" Y="197" Pitch="90" Bank="0" Heading="0" OffsetUp="-1.884" OffsetForward="7.334" OffsetRight="1.001">
		<On>1</On>
		<Zoom>(L:Zoom, number) 0.25 max</Zoom>
	</CustomDraw>
</Element>

4) A foreground cover bitmap of which you already have.

More information about this is here. There are some posts over at FSDeveloper (via google) - The code does have it's drawbacks.