Download First Person Perspective Pilots – Visible Copilots Reloaded MFS 2020 Cockpit Mod

Adds the Copilot and (if wanted) the Pilot Avatar to many vanilla aircrafts in the Cockpit view. Works like the no longer maintained mods “Visible copilot” and “Working Visible Copilots”. Source code is provided if the files need to be regenerated after an update.

Successor for the no longer maintained Visible Copilots mods. The working principle is to take the 2 higher level of details of the cockpit and copy the PILOT_1 (Copilot) and PILOT_0 (Pilot aka you) translation information from the second highest level to the highest level of detail.

I think, this mods should be loaded last to ensure that they override the default LOD0. This is why I have prepended them with `z_`.

Having the Pilot visible will lead to clipping in the default cockpit camera and you might need to move the camera to be able to interact with the instruments.

The individual planes need to be copied for the subfolder to the Community folder (forming a list in that folder), the all Zip file is available so that this mod will only take one place in the Community folder.

If the LOD0 change due to an update, or you want to add functionality for other airplanes, you can regenerate the files with the source files given under `sources.zip`, because the mod will still load the older files which can lead to instrument buttons not working any more if the mod hasn’t been updated. I don’t own the Fenix airplanes, so I cannot pack their LOD0 in this mod.

Creating custom aircraft folders for visible copilots, pilots
1. Open DATA.py and adjust the variables SEARCH_ROOT_DIRS and FOLDER_DATA according to your install path and which planes you want to have included. Adjust the manifest file if you want
2. Download the executable from https://github.com/HughesMDflyer4/MSFSLayoutGenerator/releases and place it in the same directory as this README
3. Run main-script.py with a Python3 installation (the build subdirectory only should be deleted by the script, but no guarantees, I don’t usually write Python code)
4. Check the build subdirectory for the generated files

Modded aircrafts
I didn’t check them individually, the files are automatically generated by the script.

Asobo 208b
Asobo A320neo
Asobo B747
Asobo Bonanza G36
Asobo C152
Asobo C172sp
Asobo Cabri G2
Asobo Cap10c
Asobo cj4
Asobo DA40-NG
Asobo DA62

Installation
Download one of the main files in the media section depending on your preferences and copy them to the Community folder so that the manifest file is one level below the Community folder. For the individual aircraft this mean that the folder containing the aircraft name need to be visible in the Community folder.

E.g.
Copilot Only, Lumped:
Community/
├─ z_FPP_Pilots-copilot-all/
│ ├─ layout.json
│ ├─ manifest.json

Copilot Only, A320:
Community/
├─ z_FPP_Pilots-copilot-individual_asobo-A320neo/
│ ├─ layout.json
│ ├─ manifest.json

Authors: ISO2768mK

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