I am making it sound simple, but I certainly don't have the time or energy to try this out for myself. As I said at the top, this would be a lot of hard work. If you can animate, you could use the same technology that is in the SR-71, and animate a window shade that could be raised and lowered. As long as you don't pan the camera view around, you will get a window view. Then you place your camera so that it looks out of the window. Probably, there will be no wing model, so you will either have to create one, or draw on into your. BMP and place it where the wing view would be along the fuselage. The model must have a full bulkhead that blocks the view out the back, so the default FSX Learjet is way out of the question.You take your window. All of this is incredibly cool, and all of this is terribly apparent with a TrackIR.So, to create a wing view, you are going to need a 3D cockpit model that you can alter. When you "turn the screen off", the RSO image slides quickly back into place, and all you see is your "reflection". When you "turn the screen on", the RSO flight suit image quickly slides off to one side, unblocking the view through the hole of the screen image. A switch controls the animation of this 2D reflection image. The image is of the reflected RSO in a flight suit. How does that work? There is another 2D image placed in the hole left by the screen. Really, though, you are on your belly, looking out of the bottom of the aircraft.The supremely cool thing is that when the screen is on, you see what the camera sees, but when the screen is off, you see a reflection of yourself in a pressurized flight suit. That way, the illusion is that you are sitting in the RSO seat behind the pilot. So the RSO screen is placed facing down, where the floor would be.A camera view is placed above the RSO screen so that the edges of the screen go beyond the camera view. The 3D cockpit model only models the cockpit itself, there are no extra polygons for the hull of the aircraft aft of the cockpit. The RSO screen is placed well behind the bulkhead of the cockpit. You cannot see out of the back of the cockpit. I wanted very much to show this in my review, but I decided against it, as it would add a lot of extra information I felt I did not need.First of all, the SR-71 cockpit is very cramped, which actually helps us.
It depends, though, that the camera stays steady, so a quick look around with the TrackIR shows all of the pieces behind the scenes. ***SPOILER ALERT***The way that AlphaSim modelled the RSO camera is really ingenious. An active button on the screem triggers the FSX "take a screenshot" event. A 3D camera looks through the hole in the image, and simulates the view of a high-altitude surveillance camera. The RSO camera view is a 2D image of a computer screen.
It's very possible, but it's hard work.I use as my example the AlphaSim SR-71 Blackbird.
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