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FS 2002 in widescreen? (Read 1459 times)

Apr 1^st, 2010 at 10:37pm

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Has anyone successfully run FS02 in 16:9, i.e., without the 2D panel looking squashed?

I've tried the FS04 fix (WideViewAspect=True) but it doesn't do anything.

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Reply #1 - Apr 2^nd, 2010 at 11:28am

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No� -- I either get used to it or make a new panel bmp for the screen resize; the same for the prior FS/CFS versions.

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Reply #2 - Apr 3^rd, 2010 at 11:25pm

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From what I've seen nothing is going to fix this in 2D panels (even in FS9 and FSX) except a complete panel redesign.

After messing around with the issue for a couple of days I've found that most panel background images can be stretched with Irfanview without much damage to the resolution. Then it's just a matter of moving and resizing the gauges.

I probably shouldn't have started with my favorite aircraft, which has 98 gauges on the main panel.

Strangely, popup panels all look fine with no editing.

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Reply #3 - Apr 5^th, 2010 at 1:14pm

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To forego resizing the main panel, you could add a section to the right side of the bitmap, adding in a section of the interior of the acft from the panel back -- but this would put you against the left of the cockpit (OK, I guess, for two seat acft); to forego all resizing, add equal left and right sides, as appropriate, to the bitmap; this, however, still needs repositioning of the gauges.

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Reply #4 - Apr 6^th, 2010 at 9:53am

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I considered that.� My first rewrite took 3 days, 2 of them figuring out the arithmetic.� The second one took about an hour for "good enough to fly" and another hour of fine tuning.

I finally settled on stretching the background bitmap to match the screen resolution.� I like this because FS Panel Studio will show the gauges in the same ratios they will appear on the screen.� Then drag and resize the gauges.

Here's my first one.

(Oops, looks like that digital clock resized itself.)

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