Panel Problem.

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Yesterday, I had a go at my second 2D panel for my SB2C Helldiver.

I started from the Mooney panel (this might be the problem). However, I can't get the outside world view to render further down the screen (see attached screenshot) hence the black margins at the bottom corners.

Does anyone know of any cfg tweaks to fix this?

The panel cfg reads:

[Window00]
file=panel_background_640.bmp
file_1024=panel_background_1024.bmp
size_mm=640
position=7
visible=1
no_luminous=1
ident=MAIN_PANEL

gauge00=Mooney_Bravo!Airspeed,100,130
gauge01=Mooney_Bravo!Altimeter,80,235
gauge03=Mooney_Bravo!Turn Coordinator,470,234
gauge04=Mooney_Bravo!Vertical Speed,440,135
gauge05=Mooney_Bravo!Manifold Pressure,290,40
gauge06=Douglas_DC3!gyro_compass,200,210
gauge07=Cessna!Tachometer,275,125
gauge08=Douglas_DC3!ahi,320,200

[jwpenn]

To get rid of the black lines at the bottom, look at the bottom of panel.cfg, there is a [default view] the Y= is the vertical display size. Take it up to a huge (7,000) number. That'll pretty much be close to the ground. It's irritating, but slowly back off the number, by -500 say, until you get close. You can actually see the difference of 10, but not until you get very close to ideal, or least my feeble eyes can.

Yeah, my vision was 20-10 when I drove a cobra (AH-1G) in Vietnam. Not any more. Good luck.

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Thanks, jwpenn. That did the trick. Now I can taxi without bumping into things.

Here's the final result:

http://www.dpsflight.com/SB2C_Panel_0001.wmv

Next task: study the gauges SDK.

[n4gix]

Nicely done!

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Thanks. I edited the background in MS Paint - no expense spared here

It would look far better with some custom gauges. I've just modded one of the stock XML gauges (again with MS Paint) so the ASI looks a 'bit' more like the prototype.

[grouby]

Hello,

if you have enlarged the window size you might need to change the view direction because you can't see the horizon behind your panel.

If you add this in the panel.cfg:

[Views]
VIEW_FORWARD_DIR=5.000, 0.000, 0.000

The forward view will be oriented 5 degrees down.

Good luck for gauges editing!