FSX Panel Background

[N82073]

Fairly new to FSX, I figured out how to move and/or replace some of the gauges. On the 2D panel I noticed something remained where a guage used to be. Looking at XXXPanel_Background I discovered the designer did not blank out the instrument area but left in whatever was there from the aircraft panel used orginally. Using PaintNET I blacked these areas out and the unwanted background was history.

Now going to the virtual panel I find the same thing going on. The background panel looks like the XXXPanel_Background before I changed it, however, I don't seem to be able to find any bitmap to change. I'm thinking maybe it is a complied something using the original bitmap but I'm wildly guessing.

Can someone explain how I can find where the virtual panel background comes from? Thanks in advance.

Dave

[n4gix]

Unless a bitmap has been declared in the panel.cfg, there is no "background" for a virtual panel...

In this example, the panel background is declared in the file= entry, and is a 24bit .bmp file located in the ..\panel folder (not the ..\texture folder!)

//--------------------------------------------------------
[Vcockpit01]
file=VC_DA42_01.bmp 
size_mm=1024,1024
visible=0
pixel_size=1024,1024
texture=$vc_DA42_01