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

I am taking a piston engine plane and updating it to turbo prop power. I ran it though airwrench, then manually deleted the old [piston engine] section of the cfg file, and updated the sounds (aliased to Kingair) and updated the gauges on the panel.The panel shows what's happening visually and performace wise...Prop RPM=0000??!? Anyone have any ideas? I have AirEd as well, so if there is something to change in there I can do it if I know what it is....In the meantime, here's my aircraft.cfg[WEIGHT_AND_BALANCE]max_gross_weight=37500.0empty_weight=22833.00000reference_datum_position= 0.000, 0.000, 0.000empty_weight_CG_position= 2.000, 0.000, 0.000max_number_of_stations=9…

Hi,I would like to invoke an engine failure on a 4 engine piston aircraft from an XML gauge.Can somone tell me what to use to make one engine stop when a certain condition is met or by just clicking?Thanks for your help.Roelof

Thought I'd pass these along: a) When in poly create mode, where you click counter-clockwise to create a 4-sided polygon, if you double click on the 3rd vertex, Max will complete the poly for you! :( To PAN the camera (as you likely know), you can drag the middle mouse button, but if you hold ALT then drag, you will rotate! You probably know you can zoom with the mouse wheel too.Lastly: c) If you create a material that has it's opacity animated from 0 to 100 over 5 frames, you can apply this "modeling material" to your parts and then make them as transparent as necessary simply by scrubing the slider. :DEnjoy!Patrick

Hi all (A:GPS WP DESIRED TRACK,degrees) (A:GPS WP BEARING,degrees) - abs Gives the angle deviation each side of flightplan track direct to the waypoint. This works great till the deviation angle passes through 360 and the bearing numbers increase 360. Is there another way of doing this.

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I have an idea and drawings with performance specs for a new utility STOL aircraft, similar to twin otter. I would like to Model this and fly it in FS9 or FSX. Is this possible. If it is who can do it, or how can i do it? thanks

Hi, since FSX don't support kneeboard use as a internet browser like FS9 does I was wondering a way to make separate (child) window inside FSX to use as a charts browser.The format of maps can be anything. But I think that an image (bmp,tiff,png...) might be easiest to include. I must say that I'm not familiar with windows programming at all, but as far as I know... would it be possible to make a DLL module and call that way HTA application to use as a browser for maps? The idea is that I have map files on my local drive and read them into a list of links into the HTA and so.Ofcourse and very pleaseful to receive other possible solutions =)

Can anyone point me to a freeware digital mach gauge? I'm unhappy with the display of the current analogue one I'm using and would like a simple rectangular gauge that displays % mach.Thanks.Pete in KORD

I have written an FS2004 panel with a single big custom GAU file. It works in Windows XP, but not in Windows 98 or Millenium. What could be the problem? The panel uses DirectSound for gauge sounds.An earlier version of the panel (with several small GAUs instead of one big one) did work in Windows 98, but I no longer have the source code for that as I've added a huge amount of additional functionality since then.Any ideas? Is DirectSound to blame, or does Win9x have a limit on the amount of complexity in a single gauge?

hi there! :)I have seen quite a couple of addon aircraft that have custom pushback trucks. Any idea how this is be done?? The FSX pushtruck is a generic object I guess that can't be influenced... so is there a way to lets say model a custom pushtruck and assign that to a specific aircraft?thanks so far,Oli :)

hi,If four same switches are installed in the same window how it's possible to get their work independent?I renamed all in different way but the behaviour still the same. Now if I operate a switch all other together move in the same manner.Thanks G.Franco

Hello!In which part of the airfile can I change the lift effect of each Flap-setting seperately?Thank you,Holger

As I am developing a new HUD, I now have the G force in front of my eyes all the time.Flying with the great F-16 from Kirk Olsson, I noticed the acceleration could be as high as 13 or 14G during high-G turns (90

Hi, I'm sorry if this is a dup post, but I have done quite a bit of searching on this topic and haven't found a lot of useful info. I have been given the task of getting a model of a P51 Mustang in 3DS Max (v8) and getting it into Flight Sim X. I have gone through the documentation that was supplied with the SDK, (SP1), but have found little help that has been useful. My question pertains to attachment points and animations. From what I currently understand, I have to set specific attachment points on the model and then reference them in the attachment plug-in supplied for Max. What I cannot figure out is exactly what attachment points I need to set on the model. The SDK …

Hello,I;ve installed from the AVSIM site the F100/F70 files in FS 2004. But when I start with FS i'll get a message "Aircraft Initialization Failure"I've found in the aircraft file of PF10070v2_f70_Taz620/open aircraft file in pad, then found this.Who can help me with this problem[fltsim.0]title=Gmax V2 F-70 Fokker House livery Tay620-15sim=fokker70model=panel=sound=texture=Housechecklists=F100description=Fokker 70 Tay620-15 V2 modelnbased on official Fokker F70 spec'snPROJECT Fokker-100/70 FDE by Martin Purps Model by Erez Werberntrue FS2004 Gmax aircraft (will not work with FS98/FS2000)nPF10070 website http://fokker.avsim.netui_manufacturer=Project Fokkerui_type=F-70ui_…

Hi All,In FS04 is there any performance difference between a XLM guage panel and a C gauge panel, under normal conditions?Thanks!Jimhttp://www.hifisim.com/banners/hifi-community-sigbanner.jpghttp://www.hifisim.com/

I'm having some trouble getting some macros to work 01518%(@MP_Max @MP_Min - @MP_NumBars /)But when I try to use it, the result is 0. 105.000,107.000#101010Digital Readout40%((A:ENG MANIFOLD PRESSURE:1,psi) (@MP_Div) /)%!4.1f!90,46TrueCENTERThomas[a href=http://www.flyingscool.com] http://www.flyingscool.com/images/Signature.jpg [/a]I like using VC's :-)N15802 KASH '73 Piper Cherokee Challenger 180

Hi,I'm making a gauge with 20 functions that use each use one of 3 functions that look like this: 0.000True1.000True2.000True... 20.000TrueThe only variables are the expression to be evaluated, the divisor of that expression (in this example 5.55), the number of cases to be evaluated (20, 10, and 8 respectively), and the filenames of the bitmaps, which vary only in the first character (L, S, and V respectively).Rather than having to maintain 20 different Select Objects, is it possible to create 3 macros to be used in each of the 20 functions in the gauge, passing them a string containing the above variables?I can figure out how to use a macro in …

looked at some older posts but the links are dead, can someone point me to the file plz?doug dawson's (i belive it is his) random number generator for use with xml gauges

Hi. Is there a list of the panel idents (like 225 for the GPS)? I can't find any list. Thanks, regards, Bob.

Hi,I'm trying to make an lcd rpm gauge that adds a bar to a circle of bars as the rpm goes up and I'm looking for ideas on how to accomplish it.http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/175580.jpgI'm just getting into gauge programming. 20 years ago, I was a pretty efficient fortran programmer, but it appears that the procedural programming I was used to is rather different than gauge programming.My first thought is to have a separate image for each state, i.e. 1 image each for 0 bars, 1 bar, 2 bars, 3 bars, ... 20 bars. Then use a case statement (or set of case statements) based on the current value of the percent of the available rpm range (i.e. 0 - 110% max rpm).But all thi…

I am somewhat new to this business of installing gauges and panels. Just put in a new gauge set and some new radio panels. Everything works fine except the old radio panels show thru the new panels. I have tried to resize the new radios but to no avail. Any help on how to stop this "bleed thru" would be very welcome.Thanks,Joe

Hi allCan anyone help me in code in XML for FSX for playing sound in the SOUND directory ?Thank's for help,Max

(L:Flt Dir Sel,enum)Flight_Director_Selector(L:Flt Dir Sel,enum)- 1!= if{(L:Flt Dir Sel,enum) 1 -(>L:Flt Dir Sel,enum)}(L:Flt Dir Sel,enum)+ 1!= if{(L:Flt Dir Sel,enum) 1 +(>L:Flt Dir Sel,enum)}After two days of useless attempts I was induced to surrender.This is an intended Dummy Flight Director computer Selector.Dummy because within FS9 there's only one Flight Director,moreover the panel is only for the left position.I would like to have a switchable selector with green lights(included in the three bitmaps) indicating which is the selected Flight Director computer to give more realty to simulation.I went to www.fs2x.com/tutorial but none three positions selector …

Is there an easier way to place contact points in FSDS 3 without all of the trial and error? I am having a very difficult time getting my taildragger ultralight to sit right.