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

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Okay I am completely new to panel design. I made a panel for the Lear but when I switch to vc it still shows the old gauges. How can I fix this? Thanks in advance

Hi my name is Konrad and I have one little problem and I couldn't find anything to fix this for the past 3 years (Since FS 2002 Pro came out)I can not find a Antonov 225 model out there.This does not have to have a Panel with it nore Sound but a accurate model with moving parts and textures evan if their blank. PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME OUT. If you know were I can find somting like this Please notify or someone please make one.THANK YOU!!!

HiDoes anyone know how to make a similar RPM gauge to that of the default C182S (also C172SP btw), which has a _working_ Hobbs counter that reads it's current value from disk and writes when aircraft is changed?The value gets read from the file ...Application DataMicrosoftFS9AIRCRAFTc182state.CFG, but what parameter in xml reads this? I've found a parameter named "GENERAL ENG ELAPSED TIME", but I'm not getting any data from it?Any suggestion, or is this a C++ thing only?

Hey all. I've been building the A340 air file from scratch and yesterday I started testing the plane's performance in slow flight and especially during the approaches. And something really weird surfaced...Whenever I extend flaps in slow flight, like on approach for example, the plane goes into this really steep dive, which is quite controllable but definitely should not be taking place. Which records in the air file I should be looking at to fix this? Is this too much lift for flaps [CL_Df]? Or pitch moment / flaps [CM_Df] is too high? Anything else? I seem to be a little lost here. I will apreciate all opinions.Cheers.

I was trying to add a GPS Waypoint Distance to my C gauge this afternoon, but regardless of Waypoint selected, the value return for GPS_WP_DISTANCE is always "835" (meters)... ???For example, from KGYY to WYZZE intersection is 10.7 Nm.Using the handy macros in gauges.h, METER_TO_NAUTIC_MILE( GPS_WP_DISTANCE ) will display .45 Nm... which is, the value being returned for GPS_WP_DISTANCE is "835."From KGYY to LAIRD is 24.6 Nm.The value displayed after conversion is .45 Nm... which is, the same "835" being returned by the variable GPS_WP_DISTANCE...What the heck is this all about?

I've figured out how to use HELPID's in C, but can't quite get a handle on using "ToolTips."MOUSE_BEGIN(esdg_cit_II_EHSI_mouse_rect,0,0,0)...............MOUSE_PARENT(0,65,10,44, HELPID_GAUGE_NAV_GPS_SWITCH)...............MOUSE_PARENT(0,169,11,41, HELPID_GAUGE_VOR1)...............MOUSE_PARENT(33,254,34,80, HELPID_GAUGE_HSI_OBS1)...............MOUSE_PARENT(214,258,34,80, HELPID_GAUGE_HEADING_BUG_ADJUST)...............MOUSE_PARENT(268,62,16,49, HELPID_GAUGE_HSI)...............MOUSE_PARENT_BEGIN(84,269,25,23)...............................MOUSE_TOOLTIP_TEXT_STRING ("HDG_SYNCH")...............MOUSE_PARENT_ENDMOUSE_CHILD_FUNCT(33,254,17,31,CURSOR_DOWNARROW,MOUSE_LEFTSINGLE | MO…

If anyone is interested. Putted the source code for playing sounds using directSound it's a modified MS sample code and will allow to play up to 10 sounds in a C gauge. http://www.airsim.net/modules.php?name=Dow...op=getit&lid=63Jos

Hi!As time permits I've been working on a learjet 35 together with a friend, however I find it really hard to get any good 3-view drawings for this bird, the ones that I've found from different brochures I've found online differs greatly from each other (and from sideview photos from airliners.net) So, if anyone knows about some good learjet 35 drawings please shout! :-) rgrds /fredrik granfors

Gentlemen,I am at my wits end :) I have a very odd problem with my gauge. Whenever I add the GDI+ shutdown code to my PANEL_SERVICE_DISCONNECT FSAPI callback function, the gauge will not display. However, if I do not add this code my gauge works fine.I have the GDI+ handling code in its own class:ULONG_PTR GDI_FRED::gdiInit(){ GdiplusStartupInput input; ULONG_PTR token; GdiplusStartup(&token, &input, NULL); return token;}void GDI_FRED::gdiShutdown(ULONG_PTR token){ GdiplusShutdown(token);}and the API Callback function(I have stuck this stuff in a dummy gauge so that when I add tons of GDI+ gauges to this thing, it will all display just fine with no headaches; at…

Since PSS's 747 and 777 cannot be used in FS9, I was wondering whether anyone can point me to the best panels for these two planes in FS9.Also, what panel is recommended for the MD 80?My benchmark in terms of visual model and functionality is of course PSS (Boeings and Airbus, so anything that comes as close as possible is highly appreciated.Cheers

I was wondering how to use the standard gps sim icon but make it so that when I click on it my reality xp gps comes up instead.Thanks

Hi everybody, i'm desperately searching closeup pictures of inlet area of 737-100 and 200 engines. If you also have a tutorial of how to use fs2k4 xml things to do custom animations with possibly an example, it will help alot.Thanks in advance.my emails are ,

If possible (and only if permissable), I'd like to use a gauge that is contained within a gauge file containing many individual gauges.The only reason I would like to do this is to make an engine gauge, which right now reads from both engines at once on a twin, into two separate gauges, one for each engine - by renaming, for example, Fuel_Flow to Fuel_Flow1 and Fuel_Flow2, to get separate reading from the different engines (assuming this would even work - I haven't tried it before).How do you get at the individual gauges, to rename them?Thanks,Mike F.

Hello!After having all the engine instsruments working now, I

hello I am not familiar with flight sims I am into racing sims however my father has just gotten MS2004. He loves the sim and he used to have a Beachcraft Baron of his own many years ago. I have always been able to paint cars for driving sims in paintshop and I wanted to paint him his old plane but I cant find any templates do these exist?? Or anyone know where I could get a plane done?? Thanks in advance

hello I am not familiar with flight sims I am into racing sims however my fater has just gotten MS2004. He loves the sim and he used to have a Beachcraft Baron of his own many years ago. I have always been able to paint cars for driving sims in paintshop and I wanted to paint him his old plane but I cant find any templates do these exist?? Or anyone know where I could get a plane done?? Thanks in advance

I've been using FS Panel Studio to edit a VC panel. The gauges look crisp and sharp on the PS Panel screen, but on the VC panel they are at very low resolution, blurry and hard to read. The panel bitmap itself is fine, it's just the gauges.I assume this is because of the resolution used when mapping the VC panel on the model?If so, does anyone know how to change that resolution? I tried modifying the panel.cfg VC window parametres, which are presently as follows:[Vcockpit01]Background_color=0,0,0 size_mm=1024,1024visible=0pixel_size=1024,1024texture=$pan1...But changing the size_mm and pixel_size to larger doesn't seem to do anything - unless I didn't do it properly....An…

At least on my computer, if you do not add a material to an object that is not textured, it will not show up. Doesnt happen in older FS sims. But if your object is either flickering in the game or not showing at all, try adding a material to it...

We (okay, me *grin*) need a trigger controlled (only while airborne) effect that can be used for virtual guns, etc. Lago has made one for Jets with their F-16, and it works well on other acft, but includes auto-flaps. Captain Sim has made one for WWII vintage acft with their Yak-3. It also works well on other acft but must be armed each time using a Russian language panel by default. Has anyone made an xml to accomplish the same thing for freeware? Perhaps something more open-ended than the aformentioned GAU's, where the end XML-illiterate user can substitute effects and sounds for [whatever]?

I have several aircraft with 3 different primary panels:Landing PanelRight Main PanelLeft Main PanelThese panels pop up replacing the panel that was there.I made a landing panel and I can not for the life of me figure out how they make it replace a panel. I just can't find anything in the panel.cfg file that is different other than all 3 are visible=1.When I bring up my new landing panel it shows up on top of the panel that is there.So... where is the magic? How do I do it?

Ok here goes, I've wrtten a C module which essentiallys reads loads of token variables and dumps them to a file. The problem is, I cant find tokens for all the variables I want - however, some, such as TOTAL WEIGHT and ATC ID etc are available as XML parameters according to the FS8 SDK docs. Is there any way I can access thes parameters from C in FS8 or more critically FS9. Im about to give up and wait for the SDK docs for FS9 but I have no idea how long that wait will be - and although various forum searchs here havnt helped, someone must know how to do this - I know FSUIPC can do it but I want to avoid using 3rd party addons as I need as much speed as I can get here (p…

I finally solved the annoying wav/guage problem. It ended up being a wav file in the panel sound folder. It was called "newwind" and was a 4 minute wav file. I listened to it before, but I thought it was just a long continuous loop of wind noise. Toward the end of the "loop", is where the annoying part would start up. I deleted the file and changed the config to match the default wind noise file "c5wind3". The reason I had the same thing with all panels is because all of the planes I was using had their sound configs aliased to the b737. Finally it's solved! Thanks to all for your help. I learned alot!Mike

Can anyone recommend a tutorial for making C language gauges for FS9, besides the FS2002 panel sdk (at least until MS decides to release the FS9 panel sdk)?As well, can C gauges share variables with XML gauges?

Is there anyone that can work on a Beech 1900C vitural cockpit