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

I have a problem with MAKE_SPRITE.According to the panel SDK the order of the transforms is:1. Rotate, based on SOURCE_VAR_0.2. Scale, based on TEXTURE_SCALE_X and TEXTURE_SCALE_Y.3. Transpose, based on SOURCE_VAR_X and SOURCE_VAR_Y.What seems to happen is that the transposes are rotated as well before being applied. If I rotate and apply a transpose just in Y the sprite is also drawn with some X offset.I don't want this to happen for this particular gauge, I want the sprite to rotate and then simply move up and down with no side to side transpose at all.Does anybody know of a simple way to do this?

Hi,Reading with good scrolling effects of airspeed, altitude, dme is no problem, but to make good scrolling effects with the heading hold var, vert hold var, speed hold var and altitude hold varstill give bad results (no scrolling)and using delays give bad switching between 0 and 9What to do?May be a good example?Jan"Beatus ille qui procul negotiis..."

Hi,I am currently working on an aircraft for fs2004 which I am making in GMAX. So far I have been able to suss out all the problems except for one, the landing lights. I have made a triangle which I named Light_Land with a Light_Land texture applied as discribed in the SDK. The light is visible but is pointing straight down (not forward) and is positioned at the aircrafts pivot point rather than on the wing. Anybody have a clue how to fix this?thanx!

I heveryoneI'm not a panel designer, I write to ask if there is a way I can add a small Decision Height display to my fs2002 panels. I'm currently using a 737 panel downloaded from avsim and I would like to add something that displays the currently set decision height. I tried to use the fs aircraft editor but it can't open that panel. Is there a software that allow to do this without having to learn the panel designing art?thanks

Nick had asked that I post my Random Macro. I converted a Fortran Rand function to this: 785398165 (L:Ran,number) * 422649731 + 2000000000 % d (>L:Ran,number) (* Saved Variable *) 2000000000 / (*out*) The top of the stack contains the result. In the range of 0.000 to 1.000. Shorter intergers would do OK, but I only had the double precision function available. The integers are special values thata give a good random distribution. XML supports the length OK and shorter variables would probably not be any faster. I tested it and the average value of many calls approaches 0.50. The 'RMS' is also correct. Approaching 1/sqrt(3). One could use "@Rand 0.1 * 0.05 -…

Hi,Want to know if there is a good overview how to make a model in GMAX... how to proceed in making the mdl, how to place it in the scenery... and how to add lights.Is there a great difference with scenery ? What are the things you can do ?If I make a simple box and make it a mdl... what happens, what for files I get and what can I do further ?Running FS2002.Greetz. Jos

How do you create landing lights in FSDS3?In FSDS2, I used pre-processing which made the lights visible only when the landing light is on. It worked fine.However, FSDS3 says that is "illegal" in FS2004 (am I going to jail?) and that you can't use pre-processing for aircraft parts.What is the "legal" way to do this in FS2004?Thanks,Phil

I assembled an FSDS2 model using FSDS3. Although wire-frame objects (e.g. fences) look fine when I am editing them, they end up as non wire-frame in FS9. However, there does not appear to be a place in FSDS3 where I can specify a wire-frame object (i.e. "lines"). Anyone know where they hid the command?Thanks, Phil

3 Questions (which may lead to more hahahaha)1. Is the proper way to communicate with FSUIPC to open the connection, communicate, and close the connection during each draw cycle? Or can you open the connection once, and leave it open for the duration of the gauge's lifetime, then close the connection when the gauge is unloaded?2. Can the communication happen during each frame redraw? Or do you need to slow it down so you aren't pounding away at the FSUIPC at whatever your framerate is?3. Finally, I saw an example on this forum (link shown below) that uses FSUIPC_Open from inside a gauge, but the FSUIPC SDK documentation says that you should use FSUIPC_Open2 from inside a…

Ciao to all,I've made the BPA livery for the PMDG 737 series,All work fine...the only thing is that I get to see the lights in the cabin "on" only if i switch on the "LANDIG LIGHTS" on the overhead pannel...WHY..????I must say that I had to move a window and erase one from both the FUSE.bmp that are in the texture folder of the PMDG 737...PAco

Hi there. Trying to learn my way through FSDS2 (and now v3), but can not figure out how to have a nosewheel that both turns AND has suspension.I can get either one separately, but not together. I've read the tutorials, but didn't find anything (or missed it!). Also tried to follow the heirarchy of the wheel project in v3.Can anybody give me the 'parent/child' part relationship that would solve the problem?Right now I have c_gear_lower (to which the wheel is attached), then c_wheel, then c_gear_upper. c_gear_upper must remain fixed and cannot turn.Many thanks. Hope it's not a dumb question.Mike F.

Hello!New to the forums, so I appologise in advance if I unintentionally post in wrong forum or offend some informal conventions of these message boards, which I am not yet aware of.Anyway, wanted to know if anyone here could help me with this:I want to purchase a PMDG B747-400 off their website through direct download. I, however, am concerned with the fact that I use one PC for internet, but my FS2004 is installed on the other PC. Since this is a payware download, I presume its heavily protected. So, my concern is with whether I will be able to download it to one PC, and then relocate it via USB to my FS2004 PC and install it there, or will that be impossible to achieve…

seems i have porgramed a meory leak or something like it into one of my gauges in a panel i am working on. it is causeing fs9 to crash with the out of available memory error. i have tons of available memory and 80 gig or so of unused hd space. a 2 gig swap file. and it only happens with my panel. there are to many gauges to sort through useing remove and test type isolation. especially since from what i can gather from the net it can take hours to manifest the error. it usually happens to me with in 5 minutes so its a very big leak! what i need is some kind of utility to track this. or some insight as to a likely cause ( its outside my realm of experiance) i was adding t…

Anyone know why sounds would not work in 2D and 3D view - but only when looking straight ahead? I am using the sound.cfg and panel.cfg from another model that works just fine. However, in the new model, the above problem appears.I am baffled.Phil

Hi,I would like to use the old Fanda's Dash 8 panel with my 1024x768 resolution monitor - but the gauges are so little that it's quite unusable. I created a new zoom window for the main gauges, and I would like to keep it open when I need it. Are there any obstacles to have the same gauges visible at the same time (ok, they are covered by the zoom window, but..)?thanksFrancesco

im trying to make a rectangle gauge round, the author of the gauge told me " all you need to do is use a round mask" i do not know anything about useing vectors, i have used masks, but the structure is different, the vector starts out so i do not know how to preceed it with

Hello everybody,I am new to Panel and Gauge design and only read the programming part so far. In order to "build" my own panel, I have to create graphics for gauges and would also like to use digital close-up photographs of real instruments. The problem is, that I never used a Painting Program so far. Now I bought PSP 9 and dont really know where to start. Is there somewhere a tutorial, about how to create graphics, especially gauges, switches, etc.? Also an introduction to layers and all the different tools in the toolbox would be great.I searched the forum, but couldn't find anything so far. If there is nothing like that, could somebody tell me where is a good place to …

Gents,As a first time poster I come here in a final attempt to solve a problem I

I am making a Gauge which shows the Flight plan and Navaids etc, and have been for the last month or so making bit maps, I now have the bit maps I need but am having problems with the HSI Range Switch. When I first load the gauge the switch for the HSI Range is not there but when I move the mouse pointer over the area and click the switch appears and set the range to 80, but will not switch to any other range. I always seem to have problems with the mouse click section and have been trying to work it out all day so now I am getting a bit mad with it, so if someone could help me I would be most greatful.This is the XML code I am using.(L:HSI RANGE, number)HSI Switch(L:HSI …

Hi guys.I've been fiddling about with g-max for around a year now but keep stumbling on basic modelling techniques to give a good visual result.I've attached a screen capture of the model I'm working on at the moment. My question is, which is the suggested best method for creating the wings? The method I have employed is to create seperate spline profiles and shape merge them to both sides, then extrude the resulting polygons to form the wings. I then used the boolean cut method to cut out and form the ailerons.In creating the tail surfaces, however, I did these as separate objects and left them "floating " in position without attaching to the fuselage in any way. I also …

I am finding this so difficult that I am starting to consider a much simpler tool, just for gauge programming.Two questions:1) does anyone know how to set up VS 2005 for gauge programming? What type of project to select, how to set it up, what references are needed,etc.-OR-2) a straight-forward and efficient environment so that I can do SDK C gauge programming and perhaps dabble with GDI+.Thank you...

Hello all,I am really enjoying FSDS3 and getting back into modelling - haven't modeled since AF99 and ASD.Most of the tools and methods suggested in the tutorials that come with the program work well and seem to follow contemporary design approaches.I have a question related to making cockpit windows with tools like FSDS3 and Gmax. I am using a boolean operation to punch cockpit window holes in the fuselag, but the holes are not tidy and need cleaning up, is there a best way to go about this? I usually place a guide window part in the hole and then snap the wonky parts from the fuselag to the guide part, but this causes a lot of triangles around the window to snap to on…

Hallo from NAMIBIA, AFRICA I am a great admirer of the FS2Crew addon to the PMDG 737 series and enjoyed it thoroughly. Now of course, I advanced to the PMDG 747-400 and FS2Crew are not available to help me throwing all those switches, retracting gear, handling flaps, etc. I then went on and bought Flight Companion but found it lacking and too generalized. The First Officer could not handle the flaps (you can see his attempts but nothing happens) and the provided checklists did not fit in well with the aircraft.With XML code I should be able to recreate most of these functions as follows:From the logging facility of FSUIPC I obtain the following46313 *** EVENT: Cntrl= 6658…

Has anyone come up with an auto co-ordination toggle that works in FS2004?None of the toggle gauges that worked in 2002 seem to work in 2004, or am I missing something simple.TonyD

Hi all, is there any way to remove the yoke from the stock Pro version of the VC panel for the C-172? The yoke covers up most of the tach. and makes throttle setting sumwhat difficult. Thanks for your help.Fred Z