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

I have done a very nice repaint of the Meljat 777 in the El Al livery, but when I load it in to Flight Sim the texture for the tail looks very very blurry. I can temporarily fix it by zooming in to the tail and the higher quality mips will load. Here is what the plane looks like when just loading up:http://www.plasticprison.com/fspic/elal01.jpgAfter zooming the view in to the tail it comes in to focus and looks just fine:http://www.plasticprison.com/fspic/elal02.jpgJust ignore the funky lines going across the pics, that is an unrelated problem with my internet connection...I am using DXTBmp by MW Graphics to save my Bitmaps. I'm saving them in the DXT 3 Format, like the o…

I am using the below to try and trigger an event at Gforce 1.I want the event to trigger when 1 is passed on the up or down.here is the code(A:G FORCE,Gforce) 1; if{ (>K:TOGGLE_WATER_RUDDER) } I have tried replacing the &gt with == but it has had no effect.How could I restructure this to get the desired effect.ThanksAl

Is it posible to import an existing model file -xxxxxx.mdl- so that it can be edited with Gmax?Regards, thanks in advance

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Hey this is just a little test but why does it not work?FILE *test;int var=123;BOOL callback (PPIXPOINT relative_point, FLAGS32 mouse_flags){ test = fopen ("sonstwat.dat", "w+"); fprintf (test, "%d", var); fclose (test); return FALSE;}Thanks for some help,Etienne :-wave

Hi All,I'm attempting to get into understanding the .air file data but am finding it difficult in locating comprehensive information. I looked into the MS SDK's and the recently released AircraftAirFileManager (which I can understand some things). Though good sources, much information is missing as to what the data means or does. I'd like to be able to navigate efficiently around AAFM with greater understanding.Would anyone know of some sources I could look up to obtain indepth info on this stuff?Thanks Bill

HiCaused by a recent crash (hard disk!), i lost almost everything.Well, back tot the drawing board of my 767.One question:I was able with the right "hat switch" of my CH Virtual Pilot Pro" to look in all different directions in 2D panel (panvieuw).Now i see the side windows etc. and can only look up en down using Shift-Enter and -Backspace.Don't know how to fix that anymore.Does someone has an advice?Janhttp://community.webshots.com/storage/1/v4...75aouncN_th.jpg

Hi guys,I don't know if i'm allowed to request a repaints here, but i'll wait for a reply first. So someone pls tell me... Or if thats a no, where can i request repaints... i'm thinkin real simple work "chimp work"Al

can anyone tell me where I can get a good panel installation utilityfor FS2002.I`d be very grateful.thanks, eric

What is the best paint/drawing program to develop the images to use in a panel? I guess I just want to get a feel of what the other developers here use.thanks.

I was wondering if Someone has made a utility that might help you do low level night flying in mountians. Basically you would go to the tool bar and click "night vision" and you would read your instruments and outside scenery in a Greenish Hue. Just like if you were wearing glasses. Someway that you could "shade" the msfs default panel or other peoples panels with a color. Like in some of the combat flight simulator games. Any info if its been done? or is it possible to do thanks Bill

I'd like to hear input on how to go about painting the tail of mike stone's 1900D or for anything, with the lack of texture lines it's hard for me to tell how it will allign with the fuselege textures.

Is it illegal to use photos off the internet to repaint aircraft that you download if you kept the work to yourself and not share it with others? What about uploading aircraft that you repaint off of photos from the internet but not charging any money, is that illegal?

Hi,I trying to do an yoke indicator ie a cross in a "rectangle" showing the stick's position. I have looked in the a-vars file in Arnes Bartels tutorial and found the following vars.YOKE X INIDICATOR <--- I assume this is a spelling misstake?YOKE X POSITIONYOKE Y INDICATORYOKE Y POSITION My first question is what is the difference between indicator and position ?Secondly what is the unit? degrees, numbers or something else?Third how can it be put together, can I have both x and y in the value or must I make two elements? or Shift ? (A:YOKE X INDICATOR ?) (A:YOKE Y INDICATOR ?) I'll appreciate any help.BrgdsEugen

1. Is there a way to create a material list that you can load into a project, instead of recreating it each time you start a new project?2. How do you change the order of parts. I saved the part, deleted it, then reloaded it. Not a good way.Thanks,John Woodward

Does anyone know a tag to use in the sound.cfg file to alter what sound the concord nose animation plays? I am tying it to an animation, but when the animation plays I hear the Nose motors kicking on. I could change the sound in the Main Sound directory, but that would mean that when flying the concord the sound would be wrong.I have search around, and found no mention of what tag was used..ThanksAl

Hi!Like you probably know, me and guys are making a freeware Maule package. And as you might know, there will be a wheel-ski version too. I then became to wonder, would it be possible to make such gauge that would control the show-up of two different effects. I was thinking that it would be cool to have such thing on the wheel-ski version, that when you land the plane "off runway" on winter time it would create snow-cloud from the wheels/skis and on summer time instead of snow-cloud it would create some dust. Would it be possible to make this kind of thing with gauge? If it is, would someone be interested in taking part into this project and making that kind of gauge for …

just some shots of some of my progects.777 is the base for 767-200 and 300 i'll design for CAMEROON AIRLINES as the nose shape is similar (check pics). All the CAMAIR planes will be done, and all will be free (737-757-767-erj45-etc...). The rest might be payware or freeware. i also working on some corporate : citation jets, king air, etc... plus the others (pics after i update the vmax 742 model) including MD11, L1011, A320-330-340-380 entire family, SST (the one that will be soon release freeware plus the new one that will be payware for fs2004), and much more...

Hi,I try to calculate the flight path angle by using vertical speed dividied by ground speed and inverted tangens of that. I have looked in the sdk and there are atg and atg2 which one to use and what is the difference?BrgdsEugen

how can i add dirt to a repaint with Photoshop7?-------------------------------------------best,http://smilies.networkessence.net/s/cwm/cwm3d/3dbiggrin3.gif <- temporary sig :-hah

I'm creating a gauge using the C API and am having difficulty getting any of my 24-bit bitmaps to show up properly. I've done my research: MS SDK, Dragonflight tutorial, and many searches in this forum including the archived threads. What I have learned so far is something I want to verify: that no matter what color depth a bitmap is saved as, it will never show up in FS2002 with more than 256 colors. I hope this isn't the case, but so far, it's looking like it is.Also, I tried setting two bitmaps for the same element in my gauge: one at, say, ID 1000, and another at 1500 (decimal). According to the Dragonflight tutorial, this is what you're supposed to do to separate the…

I am searching for aircraft designers, and painters. I have two aircraft that I need for a VA, a GMAX Hawker 800XP, and Citation Excel. I also need a few repaints. If anyone is interested please contact me at [email protected] You,Chad Hester

I have a question regarding repaints... I have finished repainting the Baron 58 and when I go to save, it will not show up in FS 2k2... what am I supposed to do in order to make it available? This is my very first repaint.... any comments would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,Grzes

Hey, After making windows i got this on the windows polys ( you can see at picture)i am talking about the light change between 2 sides of the line. can anyone help please? i promise pic for someone that can help ;)Best regards,Aviel