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

Eagerly awaiting the upcoming Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie, ive decided to try to model the Heart of Gold (the spaceship in the movie/books). I want to make a gauge to simulate the ship's infinite improbibility drive. this drive system works on creating the most imbrobable events possible, namely a ship existing simultaneously in every point of the universe. This also causes some very strange side effects (missles turning into a whale and a bowl of petunias, infinite numbers of monkeys working out a script for hamlet, ect.) I need to know if and how an xml gauge can change a planes lattitude and longitude to a user-entered value and if xml can generate random …

Hello :-)I've just started with FSDS, and created a very basic plane, even without reading the online Help!! I'm very impressed with FSDS so far ... very easy for beginners like myself!! I had Flightshop, and I couldn't even make a single part with it :-lolDoes anyone else have an opinion about FSDS? I can picture myself spending many hours in front of FSDS! :)

Can a "GMAX heavy" type have a look at these pics? I need to figure out how to eliminate the "seam".http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/128681.jpghttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/128665.jpgThanks in advance!Robert

What is the syntax and format for reading the XML variable for ATC_ID and then writing the value to string in C?

In my C++ gauge, I use the MAKE_STRING macro to display a string, easy...The problem I have now is that I have configured my Windows display settings to use the "clear type" font rendering. It makes the fonts smmoth and nice, but I would like to avoid it in my gauge.Today, if Windows is configured with clear type, my gauge also displays fonts using clear type: the desktop is nice, but the gauge is hardly readable. If I change the Windows settings to "standard", the gauge is perfect but my desktop is ugly.The solution is to force the gauge to use the standard font renderer, but I don't know how to do this (the font quality is not one of the MAKE_STRING parameters).Any idea…

Hi,I'm trying to attach an effect to an object - it is simply a static light. Attaching specifically an effect causes the compile to fail.* I create an object (box)* I attach a pre-existign effect (fx_beacony.fx) to the object* I compile the model and it fails.Any ideas? I'm pretty sure I have done this in the past without a problem.Best regards,Vulcan.

The following is the logic I need inside one mouse area:If VarA = 0 and VarB = 0, then set VarA = 1 and VarB = 1,else if VarA = 1 and VarB = 1, then set VarA = 0 and VarB = 0,else if VarA = 1 and VarB = 0, then set VarB = 1.One of the three statements will always be true.The following is my XML attempt to follow the above logic:(L:VarA, bool) ! ; (L:VarB, bool) ! ; &&if{ 1 (>L:VarA, bool) ; 1 (>L:VarB, bool) }els{ (L:VarA, bool) != ; (L:VarB, bool) != ; &&if{ 0 (>L:VarA, bool) ; 0 (>L:VarB, bool) } }els{ (L:VarA, bool) != ; (L:VarB, bool) ! ; &&if{ 1 (>LVarB, bool) } }The first level works, ie, when A and B both equal zero, they get …

is it possible to get a call sign, or aircraft model name created in edit voicepack out, so it can be included in a panel package?i got the "ghost rider" call sign with a f-14 download, though i don't know that it was creatd with edit voicepack. every since then i have been wondering "howd he do that?"

Does anyone know exactly how many degrees of the "flightsim world" are visible onscreen, both vertically and horizontally, for the various zoom settings, or for 1.00 at least?? I looked for variables I could use to calculate this myself, but didn't see anything. (Perhaps I'm not creative enough!!) I do see ways to do it relatively imprecisely, but for the gauge I'm doing, what I'm looking for is PRECISELY the nuber of degrees out the window (to 10th of a degree). Thank you all for any help! This form is a tremendous resource.

Is it possible to use Flash components in gauges?As in, inserting them as ActiveX components in C gauges? And perhaps using XML to dynamically update them?Misho

Is thier any one willin to take an interesting challenge? well if so please to to http://www.startrekaustralia.com/startrek/...grine/index.htm because i have tryed once at making that ship but faild...ive already got the flight dynamics (useing the dsb harrier that i believe is now freeware...not too sure tho) but i still need some one to make the model its self and animate it and make good vcI am also lookin for another person who would be willing to make a sweet lookin AN-22 for 2004 with working VC and full animations...any one willin to make either or PLEASE email me at [email protected]...

Hello,Is it possible to increase the taxispeed of an AI aircraft ? How can it be done ? It concerns specific the speed of an AI Jetfoil: I like to speed up to 50 kts. I only get now 12 kts... and that's a little bit too slow. In an attempt I got 42 kts, but that was one moment of luck ?Greetz. Jos

Hi there, I want to make use of a customised halo.bmp but not replace the default file. Is it possible to place the customised bmp in a different location in Fs2004 and then get the aircraft to read it?Thanks,nick

i am trying to turn a hud off and on ( its in it own window), with out the keyboard. its Lips 'c' gauge HUD so i cant just use in fact to make things nasty, the switch is in a side window.so much for useing pannle id toggle. it will snap me out of the side view. i need to query if im in the front panel, if i am, is the hud on etc. i looked through the sdk panel in events ( to write to a particular window so i can pass a 1 or 0 without panel toggle) and i looked in parameters to see if i could just query fs what was open...its either not there or i missed it.some 1 smarter plz help

Hey, in the past I had errors with compiling after using group or detach a lot. So never did that anymore but recently I did, because i wasnt exporting with makemdl but with the md3 (quake3) exporter. Now I got this error again, and I sure hope someone knows how to solve this error? Last time I had this I had to redo alot of objects. thanx in advance.

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Does anyone know if there has been a Northwest Airlines version of any Boeing 737 model that has been done for FS 2004?ofentress

Hello GuysThere is a way to include multiline comments in .CFG files???I tried with the set /* and */ and it doesn't work.It would be very useful to have the possibility to comment large section of a configuration fileThanks in advance!!Regards

Okay I've been flying the PAD Twin Otter for some time. I like the panel very much accept for the overhead panel. I feel it looks to much like the lear throttle quad. So I would like to build a 2D Overhead Panel for the Twin Otter. I have no panel design experience. So any tutorials you could point me to would a great help. The main thing to me anyway perhaps the hardest of these parts is I want moving levers on the overhead. I'm thinking this involves creating a series of bitmaps and then putting them in sequence. To do it in 2D but to give it a 3D look it will require me to model them in 3D and move them and take a snapshot of each of there positions then build a mask a…

Hi guys and gals,I am currently learning how to model with GMAX and am starting preparations for my first go at actually designing something that looks like an aircraft in FS9.I would like to model a Cessna 172 (I know there is one that comes with FS9), but would like to build one nevertheless.I am therefore looking to find a good detailed 3-view for the aircraft and am hoping that someone might have one or know where to get one from.Thanks in advance.Happy flyingRalph Hummel

Hi all,I have a problem with my panel where it seems to ignore the below 3D window size settings and sets a default one? Has anyone else come accross this or know of a solution?[Default View]X=0Y=0SIZE_X=8191SIZE_Y=2750Actual size on screen is more like 8191,5000Thanks,Paul.

i use fspanelshop (fsps) it has a feature to setup the 'fixed views'they can be run by the numpad key. works well except i have a head-down panel, i would like to have the 5 key 'see' my head down view rather then seeing through the cockpit to the ground directly below.this forum has pulled lightning out the bottle for me before - 1 more time-please!

I'm sure there must be instructions for this somewhere, but I have looked for about an hour with no luck. (Browsed this forum, checked the SDK docs, Googled.)What I would like to do is install a third-party aircraft without dumping all of its gauges in my main gauge folder. The AC only has one panel, so I believe it should be possible to have the gauges for this AC in their own "gauges" subfolder within the AC folder:AircraftpaneltexturemodelgaugesBut just putting the gauges in a subfolder named "gauges" does not work. What else do I need to be doing?

As I read in some other threads, the MS EPR-variable is rather useless. Is there a way for a lay mind to get/calculate a correct EPR-value?Thanks a lot for Your help.Servus from ViennaErnestus

Hi,Searching for tutorials. Want to make a car that can be used as an AI moving object (an "aircraft" as you wish).Greetz. Jos