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

I have spent many many hours practicing on a variety of tutorials before embarking on creating my first aircraft and I am having difficulty with creating a seamless join.I have seen postings suggesting that the best way to deal with a cylinder and sphere join is to delete the join and create new polygons. This I have done, but the resulting polygons have a flat surface as shown in the attachment.Ultimately I want to have an aircraft that does not have a huge polygon count and it seems that a tessellation might assist, but as soon as I tried that the polygon count increased dramatically, and that was only on one of 16 surfaces (it also didn't seem to help overcome my probl…

I am not very good at making aircraft and in need a B737-700 for my VA, I was wondering if anybody knows where I could get one or if anyone here was willing to make me onew when they finish their current progect.If you can E-mail me at CheersAlistair

This is my latest effort for VC panel/gauge backlighting. How does it look? Comments welcome... :)BillAVSIM Ombudsman[[email protected]]Founder and Director,Creative Recycling of Aircraft Partshttp://mtco.com/~rsam/fartslogo.jpghttp://forums.avsim.com/user_files/3168.jpg

Q1: What line would I use to have the transponder code display with a standard 4 digit readout. Nothing I enter even shows up, much less, displays a typical 4 digit code.Q2: My COM2 Radio Whole Inc/Dec click events dont appear to work correctly. My Com2 display shows correctly, but clicking just doesn't do anything.Can anyone provide a little insight?thanks in advance,Ian Grant

Hi,I am working on a authrust function and I wonder what is the difference between K:AP_PANEL_MACH_HOLD and K:AP_PANEL_MACH_ON? The below code snippets seems to work bothbrgdsEugen(A:Autopilot throttle arm, bool) if{ (>K:AUTO_THROTTLE_ARM) } els{ (L:SPD-MACH, bool) if{ (>K:AUTO_THROTTLE_ARM) 1 (>K:AP_PANEL_SPEED_HOLD) } els{ (>K:AUTO_THROTTLE_ARM) 1 (>K:AP_PANEL_MACH_HOLD) }} (A:Autopilot throttle arm, bool) if{ (>K:AUTO_THROTTLE_ARM) } els{ (L:SPD-MACH, bool) if{ (>K:AUTO_THROTTLE_ARM) (>K:AP_PANEL_MACH_ON) } els{ (>K:AUTO_THROTTLE_ARM) (>K:AP_PANEL_SPEED_ON) } }

How was that... Showing/Hiding macros? I actually don't understand the description of SHOW/HIDE_IMAGE(blabla) in sd2gau14.zip; I thought in a plist things are drawn 'from bottom to top', i. e. the top item in the list will be drawn at the top. Now to come to the SHOW/HIDE desc in Dai's document, to me it seems like that: next_element[0] is the background image (lowest drawn). Why is next_element[1] then the top-most drawn thing, 2 the next lower etc.?? Don't actually understand the order.By the way, Has elements_list always to be [0]?(From sd2gau14.zip:) PELEMENT_HEADER plist1[] ={&switch_on.header,&gyro_fail.header,&fail_light_on.header,&light_off.header…

hi, i just exported my model for the first time, and look what iyt looks like! That is with none of the animations turned on, and things such as the spoilers dont work propelry, only 2 of them do, although they are all called l or r_spoiler and stuff like that. Same wiyth my reversers, they edont go in the right directiosn, an some dont work, adn them my landing gear isnt out, and the flaps and slats dont move!http://forums.avsim.com/user_files/3270.jpgAny Ideas?????????????????????TaAndy

Hey all.Anybody knows hot to anti-alias vectors when using the Windows GDI?

please could anybody help me find a saab 2000 in Crossairs new colors, thanks, Marc.

I am starting to fly the BAe 146 (Mike Stone/Matthias Liebrecht) and I was wondering if others were having these strange things happen...The autopilot really screws up on altitude hold in turns over 20 degrees. I'm talking about drops of thousands of feet! It also is really over-shooting the turns (15-20 NM off course for a 45 degree turn). The in-dash flaps indicator moves 0-5-20-40 where as the on throttle quadrant flaps are marked 0-5-10-TO-20-... Which is correct?Fuel planning. How do people plan for fuel consumption. The MS flight planner is useless as it quite happily tells me that I will consume 500 gallons of fuel when in reality I consume more than 1200 gallons.I…

I'm working on some simple demos of the Netpipes SDK, and I need some help.For more info, check out the thread I started in the main FS forum:http://forums.avsim.com/dcboard.php?az=sho...id=103801&page=Russ Dirks

Hi,I wonder if it is possible to assign a min value like 100 knots to autopilot airapeed which also is the minimun value. ie not starting with 0 knots airspeed BrgdsEugen%((A:Autopilot airspeed hold var, knots) 399 min 100 max)%!03d!

Of the apparently two GMAX books available, The GMAX Bible and The GMAX Handbook, which would the group recommend for learning experience for building scenery and/or aircraft for Flight Simulator?Thanks.Ken

Hey all!I finally started looking into this painting thing about 3hrs ago, and I just finished my first repaint, following a tutorial. So, I am now looking at going out with just a picture of an aircraft I wish to paint & start. I noticed that on my 1st ever repaint, there are several lines that angle from the bottom to the top of the fuselage, andthey are jagged in the game. How can I correct this?I have access to Photoshop 5 I thinkit is, and PSP 7, which is better for getting smooth paint lines & surfaces?Thank you in advance.

I am looking for someone to design my VA's fleet and thought this would be the best plavce to find you.I am looking for aB757-200 (with all the latest things from GMAX)A320 (with all the latest things from GMAX)B737-700 (with all the latest things from GMAX)FOKKER 100 (with all the latest things from GMAX)If you are interested please get in contact with me at to find out more!Alistair SloanChairman of Sservices

I am trying to add autoland to my panel config. as a seperate window. When I get to the aircraft I have the window, but no guage. Here is how I have it set up in my config file.[Window05]background_color=16,16,16size_mm=70position=2visible=0ident=AUTOLAND_PANELguage00=ala_max!auto_land,0,0 What am I doing wrong. :-hang

Hello,My name is John Jones and I've been wanting to start painting aircraft...does anyone know of a tutorial are manual that I is free to download? Thanks!

Hello there fellow flightsimmers and designers. I'm currently starting a rather ambitious project revolving around the Gulfstream series of business jets. The jets will be released with a fully animated and functional gMax designed aircraft, 2d panel, and virtual cockpit. The first aircraft to be released will be the Gulfstream G500. Following that will be the Gulfstream G400, G550, G300, G100, G200, and finally the G150.For those of you that are familiar with Gulfstream's previous aircraft naming scheme and are interested in exactly what aircraft the new models are equivalent to, check [a href=http://www.ainonline.com/issues/10_02/10_02_gulfstreampg1.html]this[/a] link.T…

Hey dongmo.Great modeling man, looks very accurate. I like the attention in the wingbox-fuse interface.Keep 'em coming, and we will keep constructively criticising you. It just so happens I haven't found anything wrong in this one :-).

Project GMax is looking for cockpit/panel designers and two model designers.We need the cockpit/panel designers for the 737 GMax NG series. We are looking for two new modellers to help create this series :)Please post here if you are interested!Thanks.AlexProject GMax

can anyone tell me where i can dload an A320 in either Canadian Airlines or Ansett Australia colours?

Hi all i am starting a small project to make a fully well half functional A340 panel. I am having problems with the bmp background Eg: what size should the panel be i'm assuming it'll be 1024x768 but i'm not sure also does the bit were you see through the cockpit have to be black or does it require coding of some sort. I am using Paint Shop Pro 7.ThanksG MIDY

Hi,I would like to make a v/s knob when it is pushed the aircraft levels off from its descent or climb. Any ideas?BrgdsEugen

Hi guys,this might be off topic, but I would like help with this. Could you please tell me what i have to do for me to user POSKY A330 and PSS A320 panel?Thanks,

I have created a fuselage in GMAX using a cylinder, and I have sucessfully cut my windows using the boolean method. The question I now have is how do I make the interior of my aircraft visible? Looking through the windows, it appears that the interior of my cylinder is not there. Did I miss something?Thanks,