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May 31^st, 2009 at 5:07pm

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Well, I'm interested in having a go with this sort of thing, so I was looking at buying FS panel studio. Anyone use this or had experiences of it?

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Reply #1 - May 31^st, 2009 at 8:56pm

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Unless you're quite confident with trial and error and using notepad (or a text editor) to handle the panel.cfg, it's really the defacto "standard" in panel making.

IT is one of those payware programs that's worh the purchase.

=== in my opinioin of course...

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Reply #2 - May 31^st, 2009 at 9:11pm

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Well worth it. I've been using it since FS2000.

(Now I'm up to FS2002.)

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Reply #3 - May 31^st, 2009 at 11:42pm

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i personally can not do the background .bmp's only because i dont have the program. BUT i can, however, build a panel.cfg using default gauges and others from other craft that i have downloaded. Placing .gau's on a .bmp is simple and easy. Then again, so is probably 'painting' the background .bmp "panel".

Speaking of which, i need to do a little work on the POSKY 747-400v4 Passenger in the way of, if you are in the 2d cockpit and press "W" you get the 2 glass instruments right in the middle of the bottom of the screen. I want to spread them out a little so that I can see basically what is behind them, ie: a runway possibly.

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Reply #4 - Jun 2^nd, 2009 at 9:38am

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Capt.Propwash wrote on May 31^st, 2009 at 11:42pm:

Speaking of which, i need to do a little work on the POSKY 747-400v4 Passenger in the way of, if you are in the 2d cockpit and press "W" you get the 2 glass instruments right in the middle of the bottom of the screen. I want to spread them out a little so that I can see basically what is behind them, ie: a runway possibly.

Does this use a custom panel for the W toggle? Everything I have uses one of the default configurations in the \aircraft\default\panel\panel.cfg file. I suppose it's possible that an individual aircraft could override that configuration but I've never seen it done.

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Reply #5 - Jun 2^nd, 2009 at 12:55pm

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Webb wrote:
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Does this use a custom panel for the W toggle? Everything I have uses one of the default configurations in the \aircraft\default\panel\panel.cfg file. I suppose it's possible that an individual aircraft could override that configuration but I've never seen it done.

Jim,

Any aircraft can have it's own mini panel that displays with the W key. Only requires a new [window.xx] section with the 'ident=minipanel' in the aircraft's panel.cfg

For examples, look at most any default aircraft (FS9 and FSX).

You can also add new sections to the ../Default/panel/panel.cfg. Here is one I added for helicopters.

[MiniPanels Helicopter]
MiniPanel03=Mini Panel Gauges for Helicopter

[MiniPanel03]
position=1
size_mm=640,100
window_size=1.0,0.20
child_3d=1
background_color=0,0,0
ident=MINIPANEL

gauge00=MiniPanel!Attitude, 0, 0, 80, 80
gauge01=MiniPanel!Heading Indicator, 80, 0, 80, 80
gauge02=bell_206b!Torque, 160,0,80,80
gauge03=MiniPanel!Vertical Speed, 240, 0, 80, 80
gauge04=Radalt_UP, 320, 0, 80, 80 //Radalt_UP
gauge05=bell_206b!Airspeed, 400, 0, 80, 80
gauge06=MiniPanel!Altimeter, 480, 0, 80, 80
gauge07=MiniPanel!Turn Coordinator, 560, 0, 80, 80

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Reply #6 - Jun 2^nd, 2009 at 3:00pm

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WebbPA wrote on Jun 2^nd, 2009 at 9:38am:

Capt.Propwash wrote on May 31^st, 2009 at 11:42pm:

Speaking of which, i need to do a little work on the POSKY 747-400v4 Passenger in the way of, if you are in the 2d cockpit and press "W" you get the 2 glass instruments right in the middle of the bottom of the screen. I want to spread them out a little so that I can see basically what is behind them, ie: a runway possibly.

Does this use a custom panel for the W toggle? Everything I have uses one of the default configurations in the \aircraft\default\panel\panel.cfg file. I suppose it's possible that an individual aircraft could override that configuration but I've never seen it done.

It DOES, and it DOES NOT. pressing the W key while in 2d cockpit mode takes away the dashboard but leaves the most basic nessicary gauges. speed, aoa (Angle of attack) or PITCH, heading, altitude, etc as described in Daves post above.

These gauges CAN be changed to whatever you want, or whatever configuration you want.

in the case of my POSKY 747-400v4 Passenger, if you look at your computer screen, think of having 2 boxes at the bottom in the middle that are each roughly about 3inches wide and they are side by side. You can see whats on either side of them, but not what is behind them.......... like the runway that you are trying to land on! --- if they were on the outside edges of the screen, then you could see the runway. Who cares what is on the edges of the screen? i want to know what is in front & below me.

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Reply #7 - Jun 2^nd, 2009 at 3:06pm

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Rich H wrote on May 31^st, 2009 at 5:07pm:

Well, I'm interested in having a go with this sort of thing, so I was looking at buying FS panel studio. Anyone use this or had experiences of it?

Without any doubt whatever, it has been the best "investment" I've ever made in FS.

It is one of the very few FS tools that has been continuously updated for FREE since first being released.

I've been using FSPS for well over ten years now. Before that, I used the freeware predecessor, CFGEDIT.exe (which, btw still sort of works for very simple panel design).

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Reply #8 - Jun 2^nd, 2009 at 7:42pm

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I don't know why MS put them at the bottom. I moved them all to the top. I didn't remember whether you could override the default minipanel but I guess you can. It's been a while since I've played with one of these.

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