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Two more Gauges are now finished for the Lavochkin fighters.
As expected, the Manifold Pressure Gauge was pretty trivial.
Other than the markings, it doesn't differ much from other Manifold...

After a couple weeks of workigg mostly on Gauges, I now have the following additions:
Dual Pointer 4500 RPM Tachometer
A set of Cylinder Head Temperature Gauges based on a modified stock P47D...

This Gauge was finished and tested last night.

The attached screenshot shows the new Gauge (on the Left) as compared to the stock P51D Three Way Engine Gauge.
As can be seen, the readings seem to...

The Bitmaps for this Gauge set were pretty typical and took a couple days to create.
The programming for the gauges took well over a week which is pretty unusual for a set of fuel gauges.
There...

Attached is a screenshot showing the new two position FW 190 style Fuel Selector.
This functionality was already available in the stock P47D Fuel Selector but the appearance wasn't quite right for a...

This morning I decided to update the panel for my P-40N by replacing the FW190A fuel selector with the one programmed specifically for the P-40N.
I don't know that the appearance is improved, but...

One of the amusing things about panels for Navy fighters for Combat Flight Simulator is that the ones I have encountered tend mostly to have Air Speed Indicators calibrated in MPH instead of Knots. ...

Here was a minor diversion from the last project.
The Bitmaps took a day or so after I figured out it wasn't such a great idea to actually copy the tick marks on the original gauge which are...

Gauge Backgrounds are almost always the worst part of constructing a new gauge.
That is why about a half dozen gauges I have programmed thus far have used either the stock Microsoft Gauge images or...

About a month ago, I was looking through the Gauges Directory of my Development Machine.
I was looking at a downloaded aircraft that seemed to have an incomplete set of gauges and I did not...

Attached is a screenshot of the updated panel for the A6M3 Test Aircraft.
It now incorporates all the current gauges I have for the A6M series.
The newest gauge is a Japanese Magneto Switch.
The...

Recently I have been trying to update my La 5FN that was originally built back in 2003.
At the time I worked on that project, I wasn't very concerned with setting up a proper panel.

The main...

Just finished updating the panel on a "Throw-away" A6M3 Test Aircraft.
This is the same aircraft that was used to test the vertical CoG change a few months ago.
It is a "Throw-away" because...

The positions on the Russian Magneto appeared to be the same as those for the Japanese A6M.
Yesterday was spent trying to find the markings to put on the face of the Japanese Magneto.
This turned...

Recently after resuming a bit of Gauge Programming to create a Russian Magneto Switch for the Lavochkin fighters, I discovered that I could not locate the build directories for a couple P-47 Fuel...

A couple days ago, I decided I would finish up the "Hurricane-Style" Fuel Selector I had been working on.
The last thing that was really difficult was the pointer. I decided to model my version...

One of the things that has bothered me for a while is that there was no "Reasonably Appropriate" Fuel Gauge for the A6M Series panels that I had been working on. The A6M2 had about 145Liters in its...

Hello Hubbabubba,

Keep in mind that the kind of Magneto Switch installed may have varied from one version of the aircraft to another.
What is in the film is one of the earlier B-17s, probably...

Hello Hubbabubba,

On a regular Magneto Switch, if there is a second Magneto Switch, changing one affects the status of the Engine's L&R magneto status and the other switch will reflect what the...

The Gauge for Engine 3 and Engine 4 is done. It was pretty trivial and really a matter of find and replace in the code.
A Gauge that was conspicuously missing for testing purposes was Starter...

A couple hours later, with a few diversions in the middle such as peeling an apple for my Daughter and helping her warm up a snack, the Gauge is done. (At least for Engine1 and Engine2.)

The big...

This was the first test of the B-5 Magneto Gauge.
The Mouse Areas appear to work fine.

Some of the logic behind the scenes also needs some debugging.
What happens when the Magneto Switches are...

Hello Hubbabubba,

Actually, I find that working with an image that is radically different in size from that of the final version often causes problems because it tends to be unpredictable about...

Right after I finished the Fuel Gauges for the P-47, I was bit encouraged by the fairly rapid progress.
In the next day and a half, I created a full set of bitmaps for a Type B-5 Dual Magneto Gauge....

New Gauge is complete.
162 Gallons in the Main Tank (60%) has quite a different appearance.

- Ivan.

P.S. Just noticed that the "0" in "270" was covered by the mask. The number was scooted...