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

Hi,The pane (canvas) is allright, but the viewports in Gmax are garbled. Can someone give me a clue to solve it ? I am using Nvidia 29.42 drivers.hm

Hey,i am just apllying material to my windows, but it seems i cant find a good color to do them. i remember seeing in his forum a topic about a good windows color but i lost it :(anyone had found something nice?Best regards,Avielhttp://www.flightcraft.net/Images/logo.gif

Two months of work so far, hope you like what I've managed so far.http://www.thescorned.homestead.com/profile.jpghttp://www.thescorned.homestead.com/solid.jpghttp://www.thescorned.homestead.com/wires.jpgOh and I know the bogies aren't supposed to tilt, fixing that at the moment. http://www.templeofchaos.com/~blackhawk/images/dj.gifProject page: www.thescorned.homestead.com/md11.html

HiI'm trying to make a jet airmodel -> turboprop airmodel conversion for FS2k2 but I got some odd results. As soon as the plane gets airborne, the pitch angle starts to jump up and down very hard. The same results are attained by slewing the plane into the air.Looking to the plane in spot view, I've noticed that control surfaces (ailerons/elevators) are spinning very fast around their axes. Seconds after that, I lose control of the plane and it crashes (aircraft overstress). Other symptom is that G's indication via shift-z is completely crazy. The indication was -._G's and fade-out/red-vision effects appear just before it crashes.I've look into the entire aircraft.cfg …

Hi all, I have installed the latest of Pete Downsons ADVDisplay. Whenever I activate it and dock it somehwere within my 2D panel of any plane, I get a realy nice problem! The screen flickers as when it fold and unfolds itself, the mouse cursor becomes funny little and doubled and all my graphiccard gets confused. When I disable ADVDisplay, it is all ok. I have already installed many different nvidia drivers from www.guru3d, but that didnt help. I can remember the time when it was just functioning normal. I have a Epox 8k3a mainboard, AOpen GF4 4200 550MHz, 768 MB DDR 2100 and Windows XP Pro SP1. Do you need more info about my system? So, can you tell me what is going on? …

Thought I would post a few shots of the on going Legacy project.This week I have been working on the landing gear. I find I have to hold myself back sometimes. Just how much detail do you want to add, and not hurt performance? Hmmmmmmm ... Oh just another bolt here, fitting there.Gear doors will be replaced when actually cut from the wing. Animation work will be next. I will be searching the usual places for tips. If anyone knows of info on folding articulated pieces, a nudge in the right direction would be appreciated. How far can you go in FS? I guess I will find out. Well, back to the point pit.Bob C.

Hi!My TBM700 panel is out now.You can get it from the Avsim file library!Features:*Nearly all gauges are new (xml)*3 panels (main, overhead, pedestal)*EADI and EHSI are zoomable*Will also work in FS2002 Standard*and much else.....Enjoy flying the TBM700!I'm hoping that the model will be available soon.(won't done by me)Regards,Harry :-)http://mypictures.i-networx.de/tbm_gro.jpg

First attempt to compile with GCC. Got a bunch of warnings regarding several redeclarations in the GAUGES.H of sd2gau13.zip and the basetsd.h (UNIT32, PUNIT32, UINT64, PUINT64).Last line is shown in the pic attached. What's up there?Thank you,Etienne :-wave

is there any way to alter either the airfile or aircraft file to get a more realistic taxi speed as some of the aircraft i have taxi with just a little over idle thrust which i understand is how th real jets taxi while other aircaft don't seem to want to budge unless near takeoff thrust is provided- how can I fix this problem??

Hi, just wanted to know if the self ilumination effect (from gmax 1.2) working in Flight Simulator.specially with the new middleman was released.Anyone knows?Best regards,Avielhttp://www.flightcraft.net/Images/avielbanner.jpg

Could anyone tell me if it is possible to have a heat blast effect coming from the exhausts of my helicopter.I heard someone used it on an f14 somewhere.Any ideas?Alan

I`ve just added a bit to middleman that i should have done ages ago.Middleman will now (as long as you turn it on) take the x files, browse through them and multiply the specular power of the materials by 100 (meaning the value in the x file will be the same as you entered in gmax). Give it a go, set the specular power and colour in gmax and leave the rest to itself. I`ve tested it on several models without problems, if you want to check its not misbehaving then look through the x file once its done and you should find "Modified By Middleman 1.3" next to the specular powers in each material, if you find it anywhere else let me know.Click the link on my news page to downlo…

Hi,I wonder if it is possible to accomplish something like the picture ie a structured surface with paintshop pro with filters or any other technique?BrgdsEugen

thanks for the help with the fuel burn issue -now i have another issue. when I am descending at a rate of 2000 fpm at a gross weight of 150000 lbs is it proper for the 727 to speed up because I am getting speeds close to 340 knots. this is probably a question for some real 727 drivers out there so i would like to know if this is how the real bird behaves on descemt and if not how to slow it down??

Are there any default variables that FS uses to keep track of fuel used (..per engine)?or.. is this something I need to create my own variables to track?can anyone show me a formula for converting one of the FS fuel flow variables into a fuel used value?Thanks,John

The spoilers on my plane have different properties, such as: some will not deploying unless on ground, some are spoilers and some are spoilerons, and they deploy farther on the ground than in the air. The aircraft.cfg has a very limited spoiler section. How do I make these properties work?Thanks in advance!Luhiss

Just a quick question and a couple of shots. What is the best way to make afterburners for a flight model?Thanks,Jon

Quick question: Just wondering what the best way to make afterburners for a fighter jet is using FSDS2? Should they be aligned with the thrust lever, or maybe something else? Looking for all input and ideas.Thanks,Jon

Hi everybody, im Ben Alfoldi, and its probably my first post in this part of the avsim forums, and my first post with my new username.So what im having trouble figuring out is the following:How do you apply multiple textures (like 2 bmps) to the same part.For example if i make a fuselage and i make a seperate bmp texture for the left side and a seperate one for the right side. This has probably been answered before, but i cant seem to find the solution :(So thanks for your helpBen Alfoldi

Hello, i post this message to inform you that the group Raffs is working on a Sukhoi 34.I'm a member of this group, all the planes we will build will be available for freeware.It's not really as a publicity message that i wrote this post, but as an open group message : we are able to accept few new members in order to work on our projects. If you are interested in, or if you just want ask us something : mail me at [email protected] website : http://russianplaneforfs.fasthost.tvand a personnal message : thank you very much at the Avsim team ! that's for all the simmers the web most succesfull freeware dedicated site !!

A shot of my nascent planehttp://thescorned.homestead.com/9.jpg

Hi guys,just a little question:How to add fuel tanks to a existing aircraft?I have AirEd and AAM, but somehow I cannot add a line like a fuel tank or two to the file by using these editors.Is it nessesary to edit the air file or is it good enough to edit the aircraft.cfg and modify and add these tanks? I wanna have a better concorde as the concorde from the "Project Concorde 2003" but the fuel tanks are wrong.DO you know how to approach this problem?Regards,T-A-H MultiMedia Productionshttp://[email protected] TB 2400; Epox 8k3a+; 768MB 2100 DDR; Aopen GF4 4200 550MHz; CH-YOKE + Peddals; 17" Dell Monitor; WinXP Pro (German Version); FS2k2 pro (German Version)

Hello everybody!I think everybody knows that there is one aircraft which over-represented in the real world, but not in Flight Simulator: The McDonnell Douglas MD8X-series. Paul Golding has done a good job giving us an MD8X panel to use with the models available, but Paul's panel hasn't got everything. Therefor my idea was to create this one complete and accurate MD8X-panel for Flight Simulator, including an overhead, throttlequadrant and everything else available in the real MD8X-aircrafts.We are looking for people with gauge-programming skills to complete the team which are to finish the task. We've already got two programmers, one texture artist and one 3d artist in th…

I'm trying to use an EMB-120 Brasilia as AI traffic, but have come to found that there are no GMAX models in Atlantic Southeast Airlines colors. There is one older model in ASA colors, but not a GMAX one. Would anyone be willing to take the colors off of the older plane and put or emulate them on the Mike Stone model?Thanks in advance!Kenneth

Hey guys,I recently did a repaint of the POSKY CRJ and was able to set up my alpha channel for reflection just fine.Now I am working on Chuck Lamb's excellent EMB-120 with the help of Tony Radmilovich's paint kit.I tried creating an alpha channel and saving it just like I did with the CRJ, but it makes the plane transparent, not reflective!What did I do wrong? :)