v.1.2.3-18.05.2024
Holy shrunken head! Is this a too late/early Halloween prank?! This looks gross, yuck!
No, it's a collection of modifications to pilot avatars that enables you to (finally) enjoy MSFS2020 in first-person POV with a visible Pilot body and no disturbance/artifacts of the head, like some of you know it from DCS. It is meant to be used in VR, also works in 2D. All modifications are working at Level Of Detail (LOD) 0 and are only visible inside the cockpit. From outside view, everything is normal and no one has lost his head.
This package contains of five independent Mods that work together to allow you to use the Pilot Avatars in any combination as you want.
Example: Capt in the A320 with no Head and FO with. Or: FO without Head and Capt with. Or both without (yuck!). There are even Invisible ones If needed, because the aircraft you are flying doesn't allow switching of only the copilot, and you want to fly solo. You Can choose any combination you want from the Miscellaneous menu in the General Options "on the fly". All pilot avatars are marked with a VR text in the image preview.
One little inconvenience is that not every plane lets you choose by default if you can see your pilot avatars when inside the cockpit or not. As a starter for you, I included a small Mod that switches the Pilot in the Asobo FA-18E to always visible. I suggest you start with it first and familiarize yourself how switching the pilots work. You will also may need to reposition and fine tune your point of view, to be in an optimal position to your virtual body. You can do it with these default MSFS commands: UP = Up Arrow, Down = Down Arrow, Left = Left Arrow, Right = Right Arrow, Forward = Alt + Up Arrow, Backward = Alt + Down Arrow.
And sorry, there is no(!) way to save it in VR. You have to redo it each time you jump into the cockpit, but you get used to it, it's like adjusting your seat.
The F-18 is a very good showcase of linked hands and feet to the controls that
are moving in sync with your inputs. Don't miss it!
I will try to add more default MSFS2020 Planes, and some that I have bought, at a later time. Please understand that I can't provide it all at the beginning as there are so many. And some I can't add at all because I don't own them. I hope that people will comment if they have a working mod for a specific aircraft that works the same as the F-18 mod or even similar to this fabulous one for the DA-40 NGX: https://de.flightsim.to/file/2738/da40-ngx-project You can click on the air vents to show/hide the Pilots, literary, on the fly. I will populate a list with similar Mods at the end, and I will post a link to a YT vid that explains how to enable the pilots for all aircraft. I also used this tutorial for the F-18 mod.
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INSTALLATION:
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!!!!! Delete all three previous mod folders: !!!!!!
"ZZZ Asobo Pilot always visible in Cockpit Condor7777"
"ZZZ all Asobo Pilot Avatars for VR Condor7777"
"asobo Mil Pilots VR head is not visible Condor7777"
!!!!! Delete all three previous mod folders: !!!!!!
Unpack "No visible Head in VR Superpack 1.*.*.rar"
You find self-explanatory Images, a README.txt and zipped Mods inside:
1."Pilots always visible in Cockpit.zip"
This enables the always visible pilot in the cockpit.
This package supports the following MSFS2020 default aircraft...
I added 20+ MSFS standard aircrafts. I will not list them here anymore.
Check the list in in the "image" folder to see what is added. The next update of this mod will be decoupeld from the VR Avatars and will be a seperate download on Flightsim.to
I will post a link when the transition starts.
2."MSFS Pilot Avatars for VR.zip"
This adds a second set of "VR headless" avatars, and also two invisible ones, if needed, to the default ones. You can set them "on the fly" to Pilot or Copilot in the "General Options" -> "Misc" menu.
3."GotFriends Avitar Buddies VR.zip"
This adds a second set of headless avatars to the GotFriends Avitar Buddies. You can set them "on the fly" to Pilot or Copilot in the "General Options" -> "Misc" menu.
4."GotFriends Avitar Buddies VR.zip"
This adds a second set of headless avatars to the GotFriends Avitar Buddies. You can set them "on the fly" to Pilot or Copilot in the "General Options" -> "Misc" menu.
5."GotFriends Avitar Buddies VR.zip"
This adds a second set of headless avatars to the GotFriends Avitar Buddies. You can set them "on the fly" to Pilot or Copilot in the "General Options" -> "Misc" menu.
You can get the GotFriends Avitar Series here: https://www.got-friends.com/collections/avitars
Drag'n'drop the Zip folders directly into "MSFS_AddonsLinker" and let this essential tool do it's magic (https://de.flightsim.to/file/1572/msfs-addons-linker),
or
Unzip each of them and place each folder into your MSFS2020 Community folder.
Please don't rename them or remove the "ZZZ" - this can be important for future updates.
YouTube Tutorial how to edit aircraft files to show always the Pilot:
https://youtu.be/ed5w_g_8jJY
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aircraft mods that let you show the pilots on the fly inside your cockpit
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https://de.flightsim.to/file/2738/da40-ngx-project
https://de.flightsim.to/file/2246/jplogistics-c152-enhancement-mod <-follow the link to the discord to get to the download
https://flightsim.to/file/40194/cessna-172sp-skyhawk-as1000-improvement
https://flightsim.to/file/2733/da62x-project
...more to come as time goes by...
Please comment if there are more, I will link them here,
or maybe you have done a simple mod (like I have done for the Asobo FA18E) that I can include in the download.
Associated post in the official MSFS Forum:
https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/head-removal-for-all-default-asobo-pilot-avatars-mod-vr/641016
Please comment and rate after you have tried it.
Condor7777
8 hours ago
victordallaqua
However there are some minor things that maybe can be improved or fixed.
1. The textures for the Photos by Kev appear when the pilot body is viewed in 1st person and also when camera (showcase) is close enough so the head is "hidden" (shrunk) but when camera is far enough so the model with the normal head is switch the whole model minus the sun glasses is having the magenta missing texture on it. I uploaded some photos to user gallery but I am not sure it works..
2. When in a plane like Cap10 where you have the pilot side by side the copilot if it has the same VR body shows with hidden head which is.... funny to say the least. I think this is cause by the distance where the model gets switched being too big. I think around the shoulder level should be enough or at least if we could chose would be better.
3. How could we help with other planes models? Maybe we could advance the project faster to cover more planes? Blender? Is it hard? What addon is necessary to open the gltf files and what needs to be modified?
edit.
is the distance at which the models are swapped controlled in the xml file ? Looks like so but I don't understand which value to change and in what direction... 80 or 240 and higher or smaller? 😀
Thanks!
edit 2
I have found the error in Photos by Kev model.
in the PHOTOSBYKEV_VR.xml file the line 9 has reference to ROTORNUT44 instead of PHOTOSBYKEV and should look like this:
[[
LOD minSize="80" ModelFile="../../BUDDIES/model.PHOTOSBYKEV/PHOTOSBYKEV.gltf"
]]
replace the [[ ]] with <>
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