• There seems to be an uptick in Political comments in recent months. Those of us who are long time members of the site know that Political and Religious content has been banned for years. Nothing has changed. Please leave all political and religious comments out of the forums.

    If you recently joined the forums you were not presented with this restriction in the terms of service. This was due to a conversion error when we went from vBulletin to Xenforo. We have updated our terms of service to reflect these corrections.

    Please note any post refering to a politician will be considered political even if it is intended to be humor. Our experience is these topics have a way of dividing the forums and causing deep resentment among members. It is a poison to the community. We appreciate compliance with the rules.

    The Staff of SOH

  • Server side Maintenance is done. We still have an update to the forum software to run but that one will have to wait for a better time.

Fsx panels/gauges

N

N101ST

Charter Member
Hello!
Im Milton Shupes old panel/gauge hack. Been away for a while. This Covid thing got me sitting back in front of my computer. (Got a computer that would finally run FSX! LOL!)

I have been furiously doing FSX panel work. New panels as well as all new xml gauges and gauge artwork. And I have updated several of our aircraft 2d panels for 1600x900.
displays.

Couple of questions...

Is anyone still messing with FSX? Im not ready to go "down the rabbiit hole" with the HTML gauge programming. (Still trying to remember what little I knew of xml programming!)

Having issues with reconcilling the DX10 texture thing with some of the older aircraft. Seems I get some to work. Others do not. I even have ssome of the programs that should be doing this but not always successful!

I have just done a panel rework for the freeware ALPHA T-50 Bobcat based on a good vintage photograph I found. The ECU has reverse mixture levers. (Down is rich, up is lean.) I cant seem to get a grip on how to reverse the action of the mixture levers in the ecu.



Anyone still messing with FSX that can help, sure would appreciate it!

Thanks,
Scott
 
Hello Scott
I don't know a lot in XML gauges, so may be I'm out, but in those gauges, you can use non_linearity tables for more than only needles.
In C gauges, to change the needle rotation sense, you must invert the lines in the non linearity table, the first line become the last, the second the before last, etc...

Best regards
Martin
 
Thanks for the reply Martin.

The nonlinierity section is good. The levers move in the correct direction.

Typical xml mouse code for ECU mixture section looks like this...

<Click Kind="LeftSingle+LeftDrag">(M:Y) (*Get Y*) 26 (*38-12*) - (*skip top runof*) 99(*137-38*) / 0 max 1 min 1 - /-/ 16384.0 * (>K:MIXTURE1_SET)</Click>

I have messed around with different sections but no avail. I really dont understand what each of the operations do. But I believe the answer is in the following section...

/ 0 max 1 min 1 - /-/ 16384.0

Ive been trying different changes to this section, but only thing I have managed to do was make the lever stop sliding! LOL!
 
Hello Scott
I'm afraid I can't help any more, if nobody else can answer, an eventuality is to find an other XML gauge working about the same, the advantage with XML is than the code is easily accessible.
Best regards
Martin
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top