Scaling guages for triple monitor display

[Going around]

Can any one point me in the right direction.

I believe there is a way of scaling gauges to a third of their width so they are correctly represented when using a matrox triple head display.

 

Richard

[tgibson_new]

2D panel or VC? If the VC, are they 2D or 3D gauges?

[Going around]

Tom

 

I have been looking at the stock Cessna 172 that is included with FS9 and the 2d panel.

It would be a start with this and if I could see what is entailed hopefully I can build on that.

 

Richard

[tgibson_new]

The gauges that you can alter are in the plane's panel.cfg file, in the panel folder. Open that up and near the top you will find a Window00 section. This is the main 2D panel. Within that you will find gauge listings. Let's look at one as an example:

 

gauge02=Cessna!Altimeter,347,57

 

This means this altimeter gauge is placed 347 units from the left edge, and 57 units from the top edge. These could be pixels? There are no size numbers (see below) and thus it will be displayed at the default size and proportions (the size and shape of the gauge background bitmap).

 

However, in the VCockpit section down below (specifying the gauges for the VC), it is instead displayed like this:

 

gauge14=Cessna!Altimeter, 1, 383, 126, 126

 

This says that this altimeter gauge will placed 1 unit from the left edge and 383 units from the top edge. In a VC this doesn't say much about its position on the panel itself (that is determined in the model), but instead its position on the virtual gauge bitmap used to print them onto the VC gauge polygon.

 

But in addition to that you can see two more numbers - 126 for the horizontal size, and 126 for the vertical size. This last number you should be able to change to 42 to make it one third its width.

 

For the 2D panel you will have to add these two numbers to the gauge listing, and then adjust the second size value (vertical size) until the gauge is the right height. Then set the first size value to 1/3 of that for the width.

 

Finally, you may have to adjust the first two numbers (X and Y location) so the gauges sit in their original positions.

 

Hope this helps,

[Going around]

Tom

 

Thank you very much for the information. In fact using this information I have the VC sorted and pleased with it. I will hopefully look at the 2D tomorrow. I will let you know how it goes - many thanks again.

 

Richard