Text color of MFD of real Block 52 Viper
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Well, me and some friends that we fly BMS together kind of have a friendly and heated discussion about the text color of the MFD block 52 simulated on BMS should be green or light gray. We find several videos, both green and greay, but most of them dont say which version of the viper really are, or are from older blocks.
We also find documentation that yo can set the color, but its about block 60 viper, so it still doesn’t put an end to the discussion. Thats why, in order to end the argument, decided to ask the gurus here.What are the real color of the text on the MFD of the viper simulated on BMS? Green, light gray, ambar? Other?, ot it can be chosen according to the taste of the pilot?
Thanks in advance
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Correct me if I am wrong but I think IRL MLU(mid-life update) F16 and block60 have color MFDs(along with other things i.e.MMC,AIFF,IDM etc.).Hopefully this will be fixed in next update.
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Color can be set to the DTC, some like green, some grey, some light yellow… just choose it :D.
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Color can be set to the DTC, some like green, some grey, some light yellow… just choose it :D.
Ahhh… I believe he’s talking about the MFDs, not the HUD…
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some like green, some grey, some light yellow
Bonedust likes Purple and Drillin likes Pink:D
RAM22
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IRL, many of these colors are configurable. Thus different real life squadrons may choose their own colors. There is a plan to eventually make this configurable, but it’s low-priority.
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Bonedust likes boys and Drillin likes Hot Pink
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fixed
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When I extract the MFD’s, they are B&W when the MFD’s in the 3D pit are colored. Is that a bug? No biggy, just wondering.
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Ok lets finish with this one…
So, my understanding is that the question is about MFD label (= text) colors. On older blocks (4x and below) that had monochrome CRT MFD’s, the color is standard green. This cannot be changed since that is why they call them monochrome. On newer blocks (5x and up, as and upgraded / MLU / SCU etc) that are equipped with color LCD MFD’s, this is configurable through Enhanced Color Programmable Display Generator. In general, most of the foreign end-users don’t have access to source coding etc to make any changes to this equipment. So in most users MFD labels are white, there have been some USAF upgraded Block 4x that were tested with yellow labels, but i think eventually they turned them to white also. Just to add that these white font labels have a black external pixel surrounding the text, so to be able to recognize it above other white display images like TGP, FLIR, Maverick etc.
IRL, many of these colors are configurable
If you leave aside the MFD label colors that cannot be changed, correct. You can have through planning software & DTC the route lines or threat circles in pink color.
Thus different real life squadrons may choose their own colors.
Again not talking for the MDF labels, yes and no. Yes because you have the ability to do it as per the above, no because there are SOP’s that must be followed regarding such minor details that can easily become big headache if not standardized between airmen.
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So, even it can be chosen by having access to the source code, the standard its white!.
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It depends of the OFP BMS is modeling or the OFP RL aircraft is using.
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Ok lets finish with this one…
So, my understanding is that the question is about MFD label (= text) colors. On older blocks (4x and below) that had monochrome CRT MFD’s, the color is standard green. This cannot be changed since that is why they call them monochrome. On newer blocks (5x and up, as and upgraded / MLU / SCU etc) that are equipped with color LCD MFD’s, this is configurable through Enhanced Color Programmable Display Generator. In general, most of the foreign end-users don’t have access to source coding etc to make any changes to this equipment. So in most users MFD labels are white, there have been some USAF upgraded Block 4x that were tested with yellow labels, but i think eventually they turned them to white also. Just to add that these white font labels have a black external pixel surrounding the text, so to be able to recognize it above other white display images like TGP, FLIR, Maverick etc.
If you leave aside the MFD label colors that cannot be changed, correct. You can have through planning software & DTC the route lines or threat circles in pink color.
Again not talking for the MDF labels, yes and no. Yes because you have the ability to do it as per the above, no because there are SOP’s that must be followed regarding such minor details that can easily become big headache if not standardized between airmen.
But how can you change the MDF color from Green to White? Can you do it from the configuration?
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So in most users MFD labels are white, there have been some USAF upgraded Block 4x that were tested with yellow labels, but i think eventually they turned them to white also. Just to add that these white font labels have a black external pixel surrounding the text, so to be able to recognize it above other white display images like TGP, FLIR, Maverick etc.
Looks like Dutch F-16 MLUs use green labels, judging from this OIR video (48 seconds in and onwards):
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Same for Baf. Green labels.
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Exactly.
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Exactly.
Ok so why it cannot be changed. Where its hard coded?
It should be simple enough it’s just a goddamned text color. Don’t tell me it cannot be done. Back in OP we thought something like BMS could come up, and here we are
So here its the file so hard coded please?
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Ok so why it cannot be changed. Where its hard coded?
It should be simple enough it’s just a goddamned text color. Don’t tell me it cannot be done. Back in OP we thought something like BMS could come up, and here we are
So here its the file so hard coded please?
You’re absolutely right. It’s an outrage! How dare they! Who do they think they are? I would definitely demand a refund straight away!
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Hardcoded means it’s a value stored in the code lines. From those lines comes the exe we run.
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