Customize collimator gunsight

This will show you how to add your own custom collimator sight for theorically any aircraft. The idea is, since the sight texture is not available in an userskin directory, we will draw it ourself and add a piece of code in the .blk file to define the new sight.
Thanks to this post that helped me to clarify : https://forum.warthunder.com/index.php?/topic/343712-gun-sight/
You can only customize your sight after you had created an userskin.

Draw your own sight

Begin to draw your sight with any drawing software (typically GIMP or Photoshop).
Draw it in a 512*512 canvas (i think any squared shape is fine), with a black background. You can chose the color you want for your new sight. Once you're done, save it to TGA format with the name you want in your custom skin directory.

Know your actual sight

To replace the sight, you will need to know the file name of the sight installed.
the name of every sight is "XXXX_collimator". In the code, we will add an asterisk at the end.

For an exemple, i will replace the sight of my german Fw190's collimator, which has a "revi16" sight.
the name i will use for the code is " revi16_collimator* " .

Add some code

open the .blk file of your aircraft with a note editor and add at the end :

replace_tex{
  from:t="SightName_collimator*"
  to:t="MyCustomSight.tga"
}

In addition of the custom skin images the folder provides you, it will take into account the sight texture.

Enjoy

Tell me if it doesn't work, i didn't tried this for any other aircraft...but i guess it will.

[Ariete]

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[AppleHole™]

@Defbond where did you find the names of stock collimators ? And is there any possibility to get the custom collimator with the bought skin from the game market ?

[Defbond]

Hey guys I made a ton of custom sights especially for jets with gyro only collimators (including F-4C/E/EJ, you can find them here:

https://live.warthunder.com/post/910547/en/

[luken]

How do i change the F4E & F4C collimator? and how do i make it static

[Drelias]

@AppleHole™ ay i'm sorry, i did not find this one right now in the asset viewer...it seems that almost all of them are absent...or is it just me, i don't know

[AppleHole™]

Do you konw how is called the stock aim in german G91 R3 ?
I can't load my file because i don't know the orginal one name :(

[Drelias]

@andrejjajcay1234 in your custom skin directory in \UserSkininside steam game folder

[Drelias]

@Defbond The Asset Viewer in CDK ressources let you export texures of the game, including sights

[assisttaker]

@Drelias where can I find blk file of plane

[Defbond]

Is there a resource with all the actual sights in the game as individual files so that I can just replace them without having to draw my own? Would copy pasting from the reference image here work as well? I'm using GIMP and I don't know if I can center the sight perfectly since I'm pretty new to image editing, but I am able to switch sights if I have the dds file.