Why says "MFDS BACKUP INSTRUMENTS"?

[Hubert3000]

Wondering why it says MFDS BACKUP INSTURMENTS in 2 snap cockpit view??? And how to turn it off. Never saw this in other versions. No mods totally stock install so far. Otherwise 4.36 seems to be working good.

[Kolbe-49th]

That’s my fault.

I added 2 new custom views for all F-16s (MFDs & Instruments and Kneeboards).

Check ‘Alt 6’ while in pan view (3). Unfortunately (and without noticing it) the snap view (2) tends to display the name of the first custom view in the list, which is “MFDs - Backup Instruments”. I don’t know why that happens.

Usually the text is meant as a short description displayed once a custom view is active. Seems this doesn’t work as intended. I don’t know if it’s worth the hassle to adress it code-wise, hence I will fix this for U1 by simply replacing the descriptions by a blank character). Will also add a hint to the description in the Technical Manual.

Thanks for reporting.

[mack97]

@Kolbe-49th
No temporal soln existing?

[Logic]

@Kolbe-49th
I also noticed this. And that the other custom view is for the kneeboards.
However I was unable to switch to that view.
Isn’t it supposed to be Ctrl-6 for toggle custom view, then Alt-6/-7 for Prev/Next custom view?
It didn’t have any effect.

[Kolbe-49th]

@mack97 said in Why says "MFDS BACKUP INSTRUMENTS"?:

@Kolbe-49th
No temporal soln existing?

Replace the existing custom view code lines in ALL F-16 3dckpit.dat files with this:

// Custom Snap Views

customview 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 -36.638332 0.000000 46.000004 " " 1; // MFDs & Instruments
customview 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 -61.739338 0.000000 46.000004 " " 1; // Kneeboards

@Logic said in Why says "MFDS BACKUP INSTRUMENTS"?:

@Kolbe-49th
I also noticed this. And that the other custom view is for the kneeboards.
However I was unable to switch to that view.
Isn’t it supposed to be Ctrl-6 for toggle custom view, then Alt-6/-7 for Prev/Next custom view?
It didn’t have any effect.

Custom views only work in pan view (3).

[mjones]

Why does this message prevail when viewing 2 is active? When 3 is depressed this message disappears

[Kolbe-49th]

Duplicate. See here

[mjones]

@Kolbe-49th Found them, Data/Art/CkptArt folders, all 33 of them.

[mjones]

@Kolbe-49th Thanks, working good now.

[Fletch]

@Kolbe-49th, FYI - The 3dckpit.dat file for ‘F-16C-50 HAF’ needs to be updated as well