Gun Sights

The Gunsights window lets you pick the gunsight picture for each aircraft, vehicle, boat and gun position. Open it from Options, Preferences, Gunsights.

The model list

The list at the top has one line for each position you can set. When the window opens, the pilot position of your current aircraft or vehicle is selected.

• Model Name: the aircraft, vehicle, boat or gun.
• Position: Pilot is the pilot or driver position. Gun 1, Gun 2 and so on are the gunner positions.
• File Name: the gunsight picture now used for that position. If you never chose one, it is default.bmp.

Choosing a sight

• Click a line in the model list to select the position you want to change.
• The file list below it shows all gunsight pictures you can use. Click a file to see it in the preview box.
• The long button names your choice, for example "Set Jeep position Pilot to default.bmp". Click it to use that picture for the selected position.
• The Brightness slider sets how strongly the sight is drawn for the selected position. Move it left for a fainter sight.
• Close closes the window. Your choices are kept.

Making your own sights

The game comes with a set of sights. You can add your own .bmp files to the settings\sights folder in your Aces High folder. A file there with the same name as a built in sight is used in its place.

• The picture must be square: 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512 or 1024 pixels wide.
• To control the transparency, add a second picture with the same name ending in _alpha.bmp or _a.bmp (for example mysight_alpha.bmp). These files are not shown in the file list.