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

Hi, I have the Great Lakes, Air Cathams and Qantas CV-580. I use the Great Lakes CV-580 panel as it is excellent, however I cannot work out how to select COM2 or NAV2 to listen to - any ideas? Clicking on the switch on the radio panel seems to do nothing.Only the Cathams CV-580 has night lighting, how easy would it be to use those night textures for the other two CV-580 (sorry - I know nothing about painting)?HOpe someone can help - these are great aircraft!

Hi All.I am new to the aircraft design, and I adopted one of the planes from Simviation, the Cessna 340A. It came with the views and a file named "Cessna 340A.fsc". What do I need to be able to edit that file? I assume it is a Flight Shop file, so I guess I have to purchase FlightShop . I have FS2002 Pro and Gmax with the update. Any help with this would be great as I would like to give something back to the Flightsim community. I am now just getting started with painting but I still have alot to learn!If anyone else is interested in adopting abandoned planes here is the url: http://www.simviation.com/adoptfsc.htm.Thanks in Advance.David Duffy.Timberwolf Pilot # TWF268htt…

Here is a site i came across..it has detailed photos of many aircraft. Shots of gears, wings, every part of the plane close ups. http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com/walk-jet.htmenjoy.cheers

Does anyone have the Military Font (45degree) and if so: a. Can I get a copy? b. If not, where can I get it?I have hunted EVERYWHERE and haven't found them yet! Thanks all.Don

Hi all, Don Moser. Is anyone working on any new bush planes out there, perhaps with GMax? I was wondering about a new Beaver and a Caribou. Miltons Dash 7 is going to be a wonder in the bush field and is about the newest one to come along. It WILL be nice (already is!) and it will be a great addition to everyones hanger. I am also looking for a GOOD F-105 (non-bush version! LOL!!). I found (a long time ago) a site where someone was building a NEW Beaver, but have not seen it yet. It was nice when I saw it. No textures on it, but all the parts were there. I never did see a finished product and it was nice! I also remember seeing the 105, but also lost that site. Hell, I lo…

Hello,I've reworked the textures of the Hercules for 'Bush Flying Unlimited'and would like permission to upload the paint to Avsim library.RegardsPete

Does anyone here know a good source of tutorials for the absolute beginners with XML gauges?Regards :-wave from EDDFhttp://flightsimmers.net/airport/etti/signature_pro.jpg

There is any kind of initialization section in XML gauge? Some section to use for initialize G: variables the first time it load?If not, what is the value of an initialize variable?Thanks

Hi Everyone,I have two doors on my aircraft. One is a rotating-open door and I have tagged the object it is linked to as "door_passenger_01". It rotates open fine and follows the exits settings in aircraft.cfg fine.The problem is that when I get rid of that and apply the "door_passenger_01" tag to an object that animates a sliding door, it doesn't respond, as if it doesn't exist. I've recreated both doors several times and it is always the sliding one that fails.Also, if I name the object that animates the sliding door as "door_cargo_01", then it doesn't animate when I press Shift+E+2 or any number with Shift+E. I got instrument views popping up and went and removed t…

Hello everybody , I created a virtual airline a few weeks ago and I need a 767-300 with my colors... I already painted a 737-400 for dreamfleet ( easy ) but I can't repaint any ' normal ' aircraft...Can somebody help me ?Thanks a lot

Im trying to build a military aircraft. i get my three views set up and then save the file, later when i open it back up the back grounds zoom out about 150% smaller. anybody have any ideas?all help is appreciated!!Tracy

Hi all anyone know where I can get the complete set of Concorde gauges I have tried a library search but no luck I did have them all but ran a gauge clean program which did just that cleaned them out some still there but I lost a lot other gauges too I would be gratefull for any help kind regards Mike

Whenever I apply a texture to the model and get it positioned corectly, it's always blurry-never crisp like the aircraft I see released. Can anyone help me on this? I'm using Photoshop 5 and I start my texture with a screenshot of the part in gmax. Earl

See our posts in the FlightSim section in reference to wanting someone to design a set of panel buttons to emulate the 1,2,3 etc. keystrokes so we don't have to use the keyboard for the ATC commands. I hope some of the experts here can do this. It would be GREAT! Thanks, Bob.

Hi Guru'sI'm trying to make a Bendix/King com radio, but I have a BIG problem.I can't manage to get the frequency (or any other string) to show up.Here is my make_string element and callback function:MAKE_STRING (com_frequency_whole, NULL, navcom1_fail, erase | bright, 0, 60, 70, 60, 30, 3, MODULE_VAR_NONE, MODULE_VAR_NONE, MODULE_VAR_NONE, RGB(255,0,0), RGB(0,0,0), RGB(92,92,92), GAUGE_FONT_DEFAULT, GAUGE_WEIGHT_DEFAULT, GAUGE_CHARSET, 0, DT_CENTER | DT_VCENTER | DT_SINGLELINE, NULL, frequency_update)FLOAT64 FSAPI frequency_update(PELEMENT_STRING pelement){ FLOAT64 val=pelement->source_var[0].var_value.n; val=!val; lookup_var(&active); //active reads the COM_FREQ…

Does any one know Yannick Lavigne current e-mail address? I tried [email protected] and it bounced back. I have some questions on his panel bmp's and need to contact him. Thanks for any help.Pieter M.

Hi guys!I'm not usually one for reqests, but I have no choice in this matter......Could some talented painter take a crack at tis beauty?????? this one, or Hydro Quebec, if possible....or perhaps Quebecair? hey! its up to you!!!!Thanks a lot!

Could someone please tell me the required EventID's that are used to start a Turbo Engine. I am trying to create a C++ gauge to start the engines.Thanks,Bill :-zhelp

Hi,I just got fs2002 pro a few days ago. When I tried to install gmax from the fs2002 directory it made me go to Discreet and download the latest version of Gmax. Ok, so 20MB later I've now got gmax 1.1 installed.I modelled the p-38 using the tutorials, but I cannot turn the gmax model into a FS mdl. "Export" is ghosted out. I've moved the gamepack folder over to the gmax installation, (not that there's anything in there but an image viewer) I moved the MAKEMDL.EXE to the gmax plugin folder, still, nothing.What am I doing wrong?Thanks,David Rawlins

Is there a quick tutorial available on how to go about animating a multi-part landing gear? I've searched the WWW but to no avail.Making the boggy follow the strut etc isn't very hard, I have that figured out.What I want to do now is to create a hinged model of a landing gear with e g the gear strut and a two-part dragbrace and have the strut rotate in around it's pivot point as I rotate the upper dragbrace to it's retracted position.Cheers, Fred

In most if not all Aircraft.cfg files there is a section called .Item 13 in the list is referred to as "Sound Type".The range of data in that position is an integer value between 1 and 9 inclusive.I am sure that must refer to some specific type of sound, but I cannot figure out what "Sound Type" might be.Does anyone have an idea???

In the Aircraft.CFG file are fields under the section named point.0, point.1, etc. What do they mean?There is huge amount of numbers in those fields such as:1.000000,80.833333,0.000000,-20.583333,1574.803150,0.000000,4.506350,88.200000,0.798182,2.500000,0.396806,11.000000,11.000000,0.000000,0.000000,0.000000I am sure they have to do with the location of various point on the aircraft in relation to a central point.But what specifically do the individual data points represent?Anyone got any ideas???Bill Molony

When I describe the air plane geometry, the wings areas (wing_area, htail_area and vtail_area) has included the control surfaces areas?For example, I have and A/C with a vertical estabilizer of 200 square feet, and a rudder area of 30 square feet. The area of vtail must include or exlude the area of rudder?Thanks

HiJust curious about something. What is the main difference over using G:Var1 variables over L:Myvariable,type? From what I understand there is a limited amount of G:Vars, but L:Vars are unlimited. So why use G:Vars? I'm sure there must be a point to them.

Hi Everyone,Making good progress with this ship. Hope to finish it soon.Rotorhead.