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

I am new to the painting art and have a simple question.I have completed my daytime textures for the plane, but when the evening or night rolls around, the plane looks black and looses all of its texture.I know that I need to create a _LM texture, but how?Is there an easy way of converting my daytime textures to night?Thanks alot for any help.May the ground rise up to meet you....just not too fast!!

The Concorde fuel pump gauge which transfers fuel between the trim tanks: Does that use the key events: -KEY_SET_FUEL_TRANSFER_FORWARDKEY_SET_FUEL_TRANSFER_AFTKEY_SET_FUEL_TRANSFER_AUTOKEY_SET_FUEL_TRANSFER_OFFThis may sound like an obvious question! Though I have nearly completed my fuel panel - but the only way I can change the transfer pump is via the Concorde Fuel pump gauge - none of the above click events seem to function in my custom gauges! :-madThanks for any thoughts. AndrewEdit: Also, despite what the SDK states - there only seems to be two positions for SELECTED_FUEL_TRANSFER_MODE, which are 0 and -1 ! Instead of the published -1,0,1,2. How can the gauge work …

HiAm currently seeking for a panel designer to developp a Super Guppy panel for my upcoming project.He'll have access to every info actually available for the real thing.This is a serious announcement, any taker ?

Hi all. I have had this problem lately. I downloaded 2 different MD-80 panels. One by Andrea Abate Monzaand another by Paul Golding. All were patched and when used, they caused problems. when I accessed the overhead panels........the aircaft automatically shut-down. when tried to restar the plane.......my computer will go into wild spazzes! giving me that Error Blue screen. Any advice? Is anyone developing a new panel that works?Aloha!

Saw a great Skymaster in the Screenshots forum that you two have been given credit for. One of these is sorely missing for 2k2. Yours is a beaut..! Any chance you'll release it?http://ftp.avsim.com/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboa...rum=DCForumID47

The release date for 2004 is to be this summer. In the compatibilty section, it says any aircraft designed for 2000 and later will be ok if the designer followed the SDK. Please tell me thta FSDS designs are included in this!

The GMAX Support Forums seemed to disappear. Yesterday they were off-line. Today, there is some new website that has an Administrators side and a Personal WEB page side.Went through Discreet, but they don't seem to have a pointer to the forums either.So much for help from GMAX Support!!

GLAD TO HAVE DISCOVERED YOUR FORUM. THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS. I APPRECIATE ALL OF YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS. SOMEDAY I MAY BE ABLE TO DO THE SAME. I HAVE A CHALLENGE FOR THE GMAX EXPERTS. HOW DO I RELOCATE THE GIZMO TO THE CENTER OF MY PROPELLER? TRY THIS ONE AT HOME. DRAW A CYLINDER IN THE FRONT VIEW SAY 2"RAD. 36"LONG. GO TO THE TOP VIEW AND SELECT THE CYLINDER, SELECT WORLD VIEW AND USE TRANSFORM COORDINATE CENTER. SELECT ARRAY. SETUP ROTATION TOTAL "Z"=360 AND 1D TO 6. CLICK OK AND YOU HAVE 6 COPIES "SIX BLADE PROP" NOW SELECT ALL SIX CYLINDERS AND CLICK GROUP FROM THE MAIN MENU. YOU NOW HAVE GROUP 01. HERE THE GIG. SELECT THE OBJECT NOW AND CLICK TRANSFORM AND THE G…

Hi,I know there a difference between True Heading and Magnetic Heading, and that this depends on the place on the globe.But is there a way to calculate the Magnetic variation, given the location ?Or should this be looked up in tables, and if so, where ?Thanks, Rob

What do I do when FS Edit will not le me edit the panel, and where can I get a 3rd party editor.

recently downloaded and installed A320 panel.On the EICAS it shows Left fuel tank and right fuel tank,no center tank.So I tried to remove the Learbird.ECIAS gauge and replace it with the Learjet_45 gauge which is a 2 engine, Right, Center, Left ,fuel tanks. But all it did was change backround with same info on display.I hope I am explaining it well enough what I am trying to do and if its possiable.I am useing Cfg edit and have FS2002.I enjoy simming and keep the realism as close as possiable. Thanks in advance, Danny

For a week I will be taking on the job of designing sites for the people that give us so much in flight simulation! The designers of this flightsim world give us such an amazing add ons for our virtual world. I would like to be able to give something back to them and offer them websites designed to give their hobby a professional apperance on the internet.Please do either post your email as a reply or send me a message.All the bestSimon

Is anyone out there creating a payware A330 panel i'm desperate for a full panel A330 to come out.RegardsG-MIDYhttp://www.airliners.net/open.file/265713/L/

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I notice that AI aircraft do use some fx, such as the prop effects, the landing gear retraction/extension and the wheel spin.Do AI aircraft use wheelsteer or engine start (fx_engstrt.fx) effects?If they can use wheelsteer, do I need to have a wheelwell or make the rudder operational? (I am currently starting with c_gear_upper, which links to c_wheelsteer, which links to c_gear_lower, which links to c_tire.)If they use engine start fx, how do I activate it? If not, can they be made to use smoke fx? And, if so, how is that activated?Thanks.

Hello, everyone. It was my hope, and some of my CFIs friends, that someone may design / build a 182 RG with fully functional instruments and properly located to give you the opportunity to look / scan the proper area. The 172 and 182 RGs are some of the most widely used aircraft, for Complex / High performance and Commercial and above, flight training. Since nobody did, I decided to do it myself, for the people I interface with, and wanted to post here in case someone else may be interested in it. The biggest hurdle was, of course, the undesirable

Hello,I am designing some gauges for fs2002 and it would be useful if I knew the interpolation method microsoft uses for the nonlinearity table.So far I have tried some interpolation methods and algorithms on already built gauges but none seems to give me exact results to what is internally used by fs2002.I appreciate any piece of information.Thanks in advance.

Hi!I searched the forum and I found some posts concerning my problem but no solution!When I export, say anything, maybe just a box to test, I get a "mismatch vertices normals bla bla bla"! I downloaded MDLcommander and Middleman(?). Please help me!

Hello,In the Fokker 100/70 http://fokker.avsim.net they use lift dumpers i.s.o.spoilers. These doors as they are called will come up during landing only and cannot be applied while airborn. You can only arm them while up.Shift+T are the keys to press. However, there is no way that you can see that they are armed! I looked it up in the FS2002 Key assingments and saw that this combination toggles Wing Fold/Unfold.A bit surprised I thought I'll make a little thing that would show the status of this and came up with the following:(A:LEFT_FOLDING_WING_PERCENT, enum) 80"/> 80"/> Indeed. Right at startup it shows the little Wing_UnFolded.bmp I made…

Aloha All,I just got the new DC-9-51 srs from SGA, i must say....very impressive! I seriously thought someone was teasing with the Iron Knuckles DC-9.........anyhew.............Im not sure what the issue it. When I flew my DC-9 this morning......the Throttles were jumpy. anywhere from N1 24% to about 77%, it was jumpy. I push it up from idle to 45%, and it will rev. up and down to 38%, like the engine was out of tune. After 77%, it will sound normal.........Ok, did anyone follow that? Is it the air file............my sim?I thank all who respond!Aloha!

I downloaded your great ATR42-500 but I've read it's for MSFS2002PRO.I have the Standard edition, may I install it? Coould I have some problems?If not, could you suggest me some modification, if possible, to use it with MSFS standard edition?thaks for your answerCiao Marcello from Italy

I am a new MSFS user and am attempting to make some simple gauge modifications to the Baron panel in order to more closely resemble my turbine powered Bonanza. I edited the Panel.cfg file to replace the Baron Manifold Pressure Gauge with the King Air torque gauge. The substitution worked, but the gauge does not respond with throttle changes. I now assume there must be more to this type of modification than just changing the gauge name. Am I biting off more than I can chew, or is there a way to get this sort of mod to work without getting into C++ programming?Thanks for any help.

Hello designers,I am flying with the Fokker 100/70 http://fokker.avsim.net/Before landing you have to turn the auto brake knob to 2, arm the Lift Dumpers (Spoilers) and the (Speed Brakes) Auto Brakes Pressing Shift + / and Shift + T does the job.I would like to make a button on the panel to do just that.Making te bmp's for it is the least of my broblems.The problem lies in making the xml to do this.It would be my first xml btw. :-)Can anyone lend me a hand setting this up?It has to set the involved parameters Toggle them if neededshow another bmp saying "Armed" etc.Sofar I found in the K_EventsSPOILERS_ARM_TOGGLE My guess is this is for the toggle SPOILERS_ARM_ON …

Hi simmers,I am looking for a panel designer and air file designer for a A318 i am modelling. when we find a good team we will set up a group.The A318 will feature full walking through interior, dynamic shine, Dynamic VC and all those gmax effects.If you are interested please reply hereBest regards,Aviel

I'm planning out the design of the Concorde fuel panel. The aircraft only takes fuel from the collector tanks, not the trim tanks. In FS, you can only select either the left fuel tank, or the right, not both. If I were to design a gauge, which switches between the KEY_FUEL_SELECTOR_LEFTandKEY_FUEL_SELECTOR_RIGHTEvery 5 secs, would this work? Would the key commands interrupt other gauges on the panel? Any thoughts would be appreciated! Andrew