I have a T-38A that I am trying to get the panel to work in. It has several textures in the texture directory that appear to be put on the panel by some other means than the panel.cfg. I guess that's okay or maybe even normal. But I cannot get a gauge to appear on it at all, no matter which one of these textures I use or don't use. It doesn't tell me that the gauge won't work or is the wrong format; it just doesn't appear. I assume these textures are put in place by the .mdl file maybe...? When a model is made there are textures assigned to each surface or whatever, right? So if these textures are on the panel surface, shouldn't I just be able to assign a gauge a spot on that texture? Or am I way off base here?

I am using FSX, and my problems are with VC. I can do 2D panels no problem and I can usualy figure out a VC problem but this particular aircraft/VC, for some reason i cannot get it to work at all.