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

Greetings Folks, We plan on being on the grounds Tuesday and Wednesday and have plenty of "film". If you need any detail pictures of an aircraft or instruments, send me an email detailing your needs with the booth/site number and we will get them for you. Visit EAA.org for the details of your needs. I have 10 meg of online where I can put them for you or we can burn a cd ad send it to you. Digital camcorder images are pretty darn good (noise free) and we can give you a nose to tail scan of you wish. We will also get 2.1 mpixel camera pictures for you. Offer limited to today as we depart in the morning to get into the area for some arrival pictures and recordings …

I'm trying to read the longitudinal acceleration from Fsuipc (3070), however this is a double float (FLOAT64). The problem I have is that the return value depicted in the string is a forever changing number (e.g. 34519859). This situation is described in the Dai Griffiths gauge tutorial, and suggests forcing the value to a UINT32 etc - though I'm not quite sure how to go about this? I have the following: case PANEL_SERVICE_PRE_UPDATE: FSUIPC_Read(0x3070, 8, &zacc, &dwResult); *pzac = zacc; FSUIPC_Process(&dwResult);Any help or suggestions would be great! Andy[/font size]

Hello eveybodyI'm novice in FS and I would like to install some new aircrafts. How can I do that ? Is other program necessary ? Could you give a maximum of informations ?Thank'sBenoit

FFX/SGA DC-10's are great! Somebody will repaint it in "ORANGE", the colors of CP Air? It would be beutiful. Thanks.

HI! Seems I wrote the same message 3 times but never worked...something was wrong....I'm Mario Noriega, Aircraft Designer workoing with ACT's AD 20002. Maybe yopu know one of my planes, here an example:http://www.actpub.com/g222b.jpgThe matter is the vitrtual cockpit thing...the tutorials say to create a planar surface textured with a $Dummy.bmp file, in power of 2 size and 8bit indexed...no nedd to be in the AC's texture folder, as FS ignores it...the problem is that: FS seems not to ignore the texture, but unable to load it, maybe 'cos of the "$"....checked the [vcocpit01] section and is OK...but itm does not work anyway...tried to remove the $ and FS loads the texture,…

Ok, I admit I am not the brightest bulb on the tree, and it's been a long day. Just installed fs9/CoF. (Office Depot). I think I'd like to look at the plane files (air/cfg) and see how it all works. Can't find how to get in to it. File search: nope. "Help" yaks about SDK's and add-ons etc..but not how to install/use/even find. Anyone know how to break into it's "main page"?

Hello !I'm working on a Po-2,which has an old style landing gear( like the Sopwith Camel ) : there's an axis with the two tires on it's ends.How can I animate the axis correctly ? So I'd like to make that when the right tire touch the ground the axis moving with it,but only it's right side ( and the same way the left side of the axis with the left tire ).Do you have any idea? ( You can see a preview in this forum below "Po-2" subject ) Thanks,and sorry for my bad english...Bence

Now that I know how to texture my prop I'm working on the texture itself. I have the same problem I've noticed on some of the planes in my 'hanger' of downloads - I have 3 nested circles, but I cannot get them to share a common center. How is this done?RobertVirtual Thorp T-18 http://home.nethere.net/kerr/virtual.htm

Hi!I have always the saim probnlem when I start a new gauge project: Where to get the information from? I'm just programming the Collins EFIS-85 EADI, which is used in the King Air 350(also in the MSFS King Air, however, it isn't too realistic...). I wonna know details like: When does the 'Rising Runway' show up, which color does the DH have...?Does anybody know where to get informations on this EADI? Or at least some good, close up pictures. Rockwell Collins doesn't provide any pictures, I'm afraid :-( If somebody knows a source, please tell me!Below you can see the only good shot I have, but it's too less if you wonna programm as much as possible, and not just the commo…

Hey poeple.What I need is to get the VOR ID as a string, preferably WCHAR. If anyone can help, thanks a lot. :)Etienne

In about a few day or closer to week I will be releasing a cessna 172 panel. Other then dreamfleets c172 panel and real air c172. Which are both great panels. But for people who want alternatives then thats where my panel comes in. I will be releasing a panel that is i think pretty good quality it will be my first release. But heavy work has gone into making the pilots prespective correct. Also I did deforming techniques in paint shop pro To keep the panel looking large and not the typical small look that allot of panels have. The Radio stack will be dead point right on. The biggest thing I like about the panel that I'm doing is that its a pilots prespective photo of a…

Hello:I recently downloaded a couple of new DC-10's from FFXS...they are all great except one thing. There are no flashing strobe lights on the end of the wings. All it does is go on and off very slowly.....no flashing etc like most planes have these days.Can Anyone help me if there is a way to correct this??Any help would be appreciatedThanks. [email protected]

Hello ! This is my first project.I hope you like it :) It coming soon...

Hi all,If I try to export my aircraft (with animated parts ) I get anFlight Simulator Model Exporter Error:Node ... has a scale applied. Remove before exporting.Using Middle Man Verison 1.2But I don't have any scaling applied !!!Any suggestions? :-wave Regards,Bernd

Hey everyoneAlong with the 307, i've been flipping back and forth between modeling ZRS-5, the USS Macon, the US Navy's last rigid Airship. I've been mentally trying to work out a way in which one could somehow come close to a LTA aircraft using airfiles desinged for fixed winged aircraft. I've thought of thrust vectoring, but i'd like to leave that option in reserve. This sounds like some gauges to control lift plus a highly tweaked airfile. I'd love to hear any ideas you guys can come up with to get close to a powered blimp/airships's flying qualitites. I am aware of Bill Lyon's Hot Air ballon airfile, which would make a great place to start, probably. I haven't …

Hello, is it possible to remove/change gear compression hieght for an aircraft in FS2K2?If so, can it be done in the aircraft config. file or is it an actual model modification? How do you do it if it is done in the aircraft config.??Thanks!

Hi, Some of you may know my Champ that I released a while back. Now I am working on my own freeware Citabria, Super decathlon series. I was wondering if anyone here either has a one of these aircraft or has some good detail photos of the plane. Also if anyone has some decent 3 view drawings of one since mine are really bad. As for detail shots I am looking for engine compartment shots and also things like landing gear closeups, the tail wheel, etc. and also shots of the entire cockpit area.If anyone can help me on this it would be great! Kevin LechmanskiP.S. here is a shot of what I got sofar

Anyone know of a Northwest B757-300 in new or "old" colors on the net. I have seen the AI Aardvark ones, but not any more "updated" than that. Maybe an IFDG one hanging around anywhere?Thanks in advanceBill

Does anyone know what those two "buttons" (one of which is an absolute fake) on the left side is actually supposed to do?

Can anyone please tell me where I can find a comprehensive description of the parameters contained within .air files. I have AirEd and FDEditor but neither utility explains very much. The final Fs2002 SDK release does'nt seem to give any secrets away either. Or am I missing something?! Any help would be greatly appreciated.Another frustrated designerKosa

Hi,Got an odd request for some advice. I recently downloaded Mike Stone's awesome new Beech Starship, and am trying to make a strange mod to it. I'd like to somehow visually remove the prop blades (don't ask why, it's a long story), and the only way I can do that I figure it is to make the textures for the prop blades transparent. From what I understand, it has something to do with the alpha channel going either all white or all black, but that's as far as I've gotten.Can anyone shed some light on how to do this if it's possible?My thanks in advance,

just woundering if any of you knew if there were any dash8 200s commingthanks

I don't know if this is the right forum for this or not, but anyway. I was wondering if anyone could eithera) tel me where i can:( make and uploadsounds for the following aircraftDefault 737Default 747Default 777and also sounds compatible with:B767-336ER OpenSky Boeing B767-336ER QantasMD80 FFX/SGA MD80 Series Midwest ExpressA319 easyJet Airbus A319A320-214 HB-IIJ Swiss Airlines Airbus 320-214 HB-IJJA321 Pan Am Airbus A321 Gmax PackA330-300 Cyprus Airways Airbus A330-300A340-600 FlightCraft A340-600 Base PackDash8-311 Bahamasair Dehavilland DASH8-311Thanks in advanceA.Sloan

I'm using fs panel studio and i have paint shop pro 8. heres my problem I have a good cut out of a yoke i want to use. I even tried to make it transparent in paint shop pro. When you finally make it go transparent and you save it and bring the file back up in PSP the background goes white instead of staying transparent. If somebody can solve the first problem then my next problem would be how do i go about adding the yoke in to the exisitng panel i'm working on. Any help would be greatly apperciate. This problem is preventing me from releasing my panel publicly.

Hi,After Adding section 1520 to the plane's (767) airfile (K-event) Elec Fuel Pumps and (A:Var) Fuel Pump Switch Lights work as it should.Only not capable to show any (A:Var) Fuelpressure in a , neither airborne or on the ground with engine's off and on.Any idea's?Jan"Procul Negotiis"