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My First Custom Fuel Selector
About a year and a half after the last post, and with the release of my rework of Eric Johnson's P-39D Airacobra, I have finally finished my first custom Fuel Selector.
The P-39 Airacobra only has a single fuel tank in each Wing Root.
There is no CFS stock Fuel Selector which only has Left and Right Fuel Tanks.
While it is possible to arrange the Fuel Tanks in the AIR file so that the fuel selector from the stock P47D can be used, the appearance with "Main" and "Aux" markings does not look appropriate with the arrangement on the Airacobra.
Fortunately, programming a new Left-Right Fuel Selector was not terribly difficult.
Creating new bitmaps for the gauge was the most difficult part.
On this Gauge, there are three status positions:
Left - Left Tank selected
Right - Right Tank selected
Center - Something other than Left or Right Tank is selected.
Note that ONLY the Left or Right Tank can be manually selected using this gauge.
The Center position is just an indicator that the current selection is something the gauge does not understand.
From this gauge it was pretty easy to create a Left-Right-Center Selector.
One might wonder why such a gauge would be useful considering that the options are the same as on the stock P51D or Hurricane_1 Fuel Selectors.
The difference is that there are two mouse areas and it is not necessary to cycle through all three positions though it may be necessary to pass through the center position to get from one side to the other as one might expect with an actual Fuel Selector.
- Ivan.