FSX/FSX-SE Aircraft and Panel Design Forum - How To

Hi all, anyone know how to cure this tearing problem. Can be seen on the horizon line. Not too bad in normal panel mode, but a lot worse when enlarged as a pop-up. Bitmaps are 8 bit.cheers,nick

I have several invisible gauges which automatically do things to the aircraft in certain conditions. Each is small and comprises just one element. Can I combine them into one gauge with each element listed concuurrently?Peter

Hi Everybody ...Do anybody have configurated a payload model of A340-600 for Fs passengers? Could u share it with me? my e-mail is [email protected] ... CLS A340-600 panel descreases a lot my frames rate, so i decided to take it out and i'm thinking about adding the PSS A340 panel. Do anybody know if it will be a problem to the flight dinamics of the aircraft and whatever? ...The last question is if anybody know how to add wingviews to PSS Airbus?That's all,My best regards,Nuno

Hi all Need to update Throttle setting with an increasing/decreasing value every 1000 ft. climbing or descending. how can I count altitude and pass the value.

Hi,From the Panel SDK:(>K:BAROMETRIC) Syncs altimeter setting to sea level pressure, or 29.92 if above 18000 feetIs it possible to change the 18000 ft to another figure somewhere?Thanks for your time.Roelof

Just wondering... I was thinking about making a gauge that will open a small extra window on the 2D panel that would look forward. Like in the new A380 and many bizjets where they can use an externally mounted camera to view the undercarriage, etc. But I don't necessarily want to re-invent any wheels. A search of the AVSIM file library didn't help, but then I may not be using the right search terms. (1) Something like this should be theoretically possible, right? And (2) is it already out there somewhere? Thanks.---Will

Hello all,I did start to study C++ today but I was feeling restless since I haven't built anything in quite some time. So, about six hours ago, I started on a bull rush.Yea, you all know how that goes. I have to work tomorrow, yet here I am finishing code at midnight.It all works perfectly. I don't need any help with it. What I would like is a critique of how I implemented formatted text and macros. This is my first try at making these puppies into serious work horses and I'm wondering what I might have done better, cleaner, more efficiently, etc.As always, thanks for any tips and insight!(P.S.: I made those huge gaps between sections purposely to make it as easy as possi…

Hey all,We use Teamspeak to literally chat with each other on Hovercontrol all day long. Guys are making channels for all sorts of little side things they do... what if I made one for us to be able to simply talk to each other?I'm online now and usually have TS running if I'm home. Pop on in, yell at me and I'll make the channel if needed.You need to join HC to get the info for how to get onto TS, but we're a good group and don't bite (much).Scott / VorlinHC070NC_Vorlin*CP* on Hovercontrol, NCD in the HC forums.

I'd like to assign an (L:Var, bool) at the beginning of a gauge that I can call later in several subsections (hence the utility of assigning a variable).I tried beginning the gauge with this element: (L:Var1, enum) (L:Var2, enum) 2 * + (>L:Storage, enum) I know I'm a beginner, so this must be a stupid mistake. When I try it like this, the gauge fails to display. When I comment this section out completely, the gauge works, so I know there's an error with this snippet. When I add a statement with an tag in the middle, like this: (L:Var1, enum) (L:Var2, enum) 2 * + (>L:Storage, enum) Then the gauge surprisingly works again. I can even ch…

Hi,Suffering "fpsitis" and reading threats about max reg's, 50, and statements between value tags, 30, ???? I have a question:Is there really a limit and what is better:(L:Var1,enum) 1== if{...(L:Var2,enum) 2== if{...(L:Var3,enum) 3== if{...........(L:Var200,enum) 200 == if{...or(L:Var1,enum) 1== if{...(L:Var2,enum) 2== if{...(L:Var3,enum) 3== if{...........(L:Var30,enum) 30 == if{...(L:Var31,enum) 31== if{...(L:Var32,enum) 32== if{...(L:Var33,enum) 33== if{...........(L:Var60,enum) 60 == if{...etc.Or is this better:(L:Var1,enum) 1== if{...(L:Var2,enum) 2== if{...(L:Var3,enum) 3== if{...........(L:Var200,enum) 200 == if{...What is better, place all that logic, many elemen…

Hey All,I'm in the middle of my Overhead panel build and learning xml along the way. So far I've got:All functioning Fuel panel, fuel heat, icing or filter bypass, boost pumps, selectable fuel tanks etc.Electrical panel 2 gens Apu and gen all trip and fault lights and total metering panel with, AC / DCselectable Electrical sources. All ice and rain protection. All lighting switchable and placed on the OH. Yaw Damper,Hydraulics, Ignition and start switch 1 and 2 and almost done with the Aircon and Pressurisation systems.This all started by trying to get a correctly functioning fuel system and the next thing, Oh well you get the drift.Thanks to Matthias, Bill Leaming, Felix…

I downloaded the subject plane here today. There are missing gauges in the panels, especially all of the X35 gauges in the VC panel. I tried contacting Kazunori at the address in the text file and it comes back as undeliverable. Does anyone have the missing gauges or a way to contact the author? Thanks, regards, Bob.

I am lookign for dedicated and expirenced members to join a team for potentiol payware release for a future FSX I am looking for a couple modelers,and guage designers. The project will be for the new Boeing 787 and cover the entire family.I have currently launched a site for building a full mockup of the 787 cockpit for use in FSX but would like to take this further. Visit www.sim787.com and click on Join Team if interested.

Gentlemen ,I need to know how to do a VS gauging with increment and decrement of 50 ft at each click.Someone told me that is impossible to do that in FS9 , but 737PIC AP vertical speed works this way , until 1000ft altitude at each click the VS change with increments of 50 ft and vice-versa .Also ,DF737 works same way .I need the help from you gurus.Thanks and regardsAlberto Kunzel

Hi Boys!Maybe this is a newbie question but it's driving me crazy.Well what i'm trying to design is a hydraulic system but nothing what i've done has worked.My question, and i hope someone can help me is: I want to design a system wich will be "ON" or "ACTIVATED" if any of 3 or maybe 5 variables are "on" it does no matter which of them. It should be activated on with one o more.For IE I have tree Hydraulic's pumps and let's say Flaps. must operate with one of these pumps On and obvious with its respective enough pressure.Here's part of my code(L:HYDSYS, bool) 1 == if { (L:HYDpump1, bool) 1 == || || (L:HYDpump2, bool) 1 == || || (L:HYDpump3, bool) 1 == }The Flap code it's …

I don't come in here often so forgive me if this post covers issues well known to you gauge experts.I have only recently discovered that, in addition to PANEL and SOUND folders being able to be aliased from another aircraft's folder, it is possible to:1. Alias all the bitmaps only of another panel folder when panel folder no.2 is in the same aircraft's folder. This enables the user to have nothing but a PANEL.CFG file in a second panel folder which can have a different gauge configuration, or even a few, but not all, different bitmaps as desired. The point of this is that it saves major duplication, as most views etc. can be aliased.An example of this is:file=../panel/…

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The code below is for setting the frequencies in com/nav radios. Many of you work with this formula so perhaps you can help.(L:ComGoldSetValue, number) 100 * 10000 % int d 10 % r10 / int d 10 % r 10 / int d 10 % r 10 / int 16* + 16 * + 16 * + (>K:COM_RADIO_SET)Today ATC requested a frequency of 128.45 to be set. I entered that value into the L:ComGoldSetValue variable, but the K:COM_RADIO_SET value went to 128.44. I double checked these values and cannot get the value 128.45 to set to anything but 128.44 using the above formula.A second frequency was also discovered to be off. A value 128.20 set the K variable to a value of 128.19. No other com frequencies have been di…

Greetings, all.On a particular aircraft I am atempting to make a retrofit for a Reality-XP avionics suite. So far I have all gauges installed, working beautifully and right where i want them to be -- minus one exception . . .I know for a fact this has been discussed in detail, but when i do a search for "VC textures" I get far too many results to go through, and searching on the internet itself returns a bunch of forums for some race car game :-PThus my question is this:How do I get a gauge to appear on TOP of the texture (I know it IS possible -- I forgot where I read it was, but it is). basically the gauge that was there before apparently had "invisible" dials or some…

Do you think the following can be optimezed if you have many of these lines? (@c:NearestAirportCurrentIdent,string) 'EHAM' scmp ! if{ 1 (>L:String Value, enum) } (@c:NearestAirportCurrentIdent,string) 'EHBK' scmp ! if{ 2 (>L:String Value, enum) } (@c:NearestAirportCurrentIdent,string) 'EHEH' scmp ! if{ 3 (>L:String Value, enum) } Roelof

I've been trying to implement the technique of swapping out lit/unlit gauge polys for analog gauge lighting, but something is elluding me in the process. I assume since the lit $texture has an associated _L, that in order to REMOVE the backlighting for a copy, one must apply a new material based on a copy of $texture and omit the Self-Illumination property.The only problem is I can't get it to work that way! It remains lit (although the swapping XML .mdl code works fine). It's just ignoring the self-illumination attribute on the new material.Perhaps I'm going about it all wrong, but short of adding a copy of the gauge to my $texture (seems a waste), or adding a new VC sec…

What's the best freeware, shareware, or reasonably-priced payware program that will create CAB files? Thanks.---Will

First of all, Rob, Scott, Doug, Bill, and others--you guys are great. I'm really appreciating what a good resource this forum is. By searching the web countless times I've become convinced that this forum here represents the biggest collection of MSFS xml knowledge in any one place.My question of the day: In formal language, what do the and tags mean? I'm not sure when they have to be used and when they don't and the tutorials I've found are a little vague. One time I solved a problem by throwing around a block of code, but I'm not sure why I did it. It worked, but I felt like an idiot.---Will (learning rapidly)

hi,moving wherever on the screen the MS kneeboard I have always the panel covered by this enormous kneeboard.Making a checklist without having the possibility to look at the instruments it's crazy and very unconfortable.There's a way to resize the Electronic Kneeboard or does it exist a more suitable one?G.Franco

HelloI need to embed the FSim into a more complex environment. I need a step by step simulation feature: Fsim does a step, the rest of the environment does a step...and so on. Can this be realized and what is about the timescale? Can the Fsim be stopped and its internal simulation time be freezed?? The environment uses a simulation steptime of 55 ms. But the environment needs different amount of realtime to do one 55ms step, so the time while the FSim needs to pause will vary. This may be a problem if its internal clock is not freezed, I think. Do you know of any tutorials about such a feature or has anybody realized something like that?thx in advanceTweety