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Virtual Cockpit Animations

AeroFiles

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Hello.

I have a new airplane with virtual 3d cockpit bougth from a freelance artist.
The price was high, so hope I will be able to finish the work, so it will work as it should.

I would like to know how to make the switches and guages in the virtual cockpit clickable, and to do what they are suppose to do.
I have FS Panel Studio, but its only for 2D Cockpit, which this airplane does not have.

The airplanes swithces and guages are not FSX ready.

Is there any easy way to do this? or only the hard way?
I suppose it is something with Animations, but am not sure how.

Please, some of you with the know how, please fill me in, so I can work on this virtual cockpit, and make it work in FSX.
It is a Bombardier CRJ 700, with Virtual cabin and cockpit.

I use Gmax.
 
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FS Panel Studio certainly does support Virtual Cockpits!

But, you have to create the entries yourself using Notepad.exe before loading FSPS:

You need at least the following for each [VCockpitnn] entry you want:

Code: 
//--------------------------------------------------------
[Vcockpit01]
file=MyVCbackground.bmp  // only if you want to have a background image
Background_color=0,0,0 
size_mm=1024,1024
visible=1
pixel_size=1024,1024
texture=$MyVC_01

As far as animating the 3d virtual cockpit, there are many tutorials from which to choose, but I'll warn you ahead of time, it is NOT a trivial matter. Do not expect to learn it in a few easy steps... :teacher:

I'd strongly suggest reading through the forums at http://freeflightdesign.com for more details, as well as sample XML script you'll need for any custom animation you need, plus reading the many tutorials and tips available.
 
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Ohh well there you go :D
Did not know that :)
Guess I got more that I hoped for then :)


Thanks n4gix, you have been a great help :)

And to the admins, nice new look on the forum.
It was not here a few hours ago :)
 
AeroFiles said:
Ohh well there you go :D
Did not know that :)
Guess I got more that I hoped for then :)
Click to expand...

I've been nagging the author for YEARS to add direct support for creating [VCockpitnn} entries...

...or at least add the information to the Help(less) file! :rolleyes:
 
Yea that would be a good move from the author.
Newbies such as my self, need al the help they can get. :rolleyes:
 
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