You can put objects in front of the 2D gauge as long as you are not covering any functional, clickable area of the 2D gauge. It will probably look strange though.
You would be better off just...
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You can put objects in front of the 2D gauge as long as you are not covering any functional, clickable area of the 2D gauge. It will probably look strange though.
You would be better off just...
Mdk, it would be helpful to see a screenshot of your existing situation. I hate to answer blindly fearing setting you off in a wrong direction.
If your radio is a 2D gauge displayed on a planar...
My pleasure Nigel. There's a lot of pleasure to be gotten from "giving" of ones self especially when you see others being creative with what little I could share.
In the video, I named the two vc planars vc01 and vc02. Therefore the self illumination texture for that model would be vc01_L.bmp and vc02_L.bmp.
You are not having a VC?
You can use the 2D gauges in the 3D cockpit as shown in the video. Just add teh back lighting as I described.
LOL If you want red-lit nite gauges, make the gauge holes dark red; keep the alpha black :-)
Negative; that is for the 2D gauges only.
To back-light any VC gauge, you must have a Self Illumination texture tagged in the material slot for the vc gauge background. See the attached.
To...
Just rotate the pivot in (Affect Pivot Only) Local Coordination mode.
MDK,
Always a good idea whenever naming animated parts in the exterior model to use this convention so that when cloning for the interior model you do not have to go through to correct the names. ...
That's great to hear. If I can help in any way with similar video tutorials, just ask.
Thank you; I hope the video is helpful to show the basics required to get the VC started.
I will check out this player; looks interesting. :-)
Allen,
I have converted the video to WMA (a windows media audio/video format) so hopefully you can view it. Uploading now to my Dropbox.
EDIT: I have uploaded the video to YouTube:
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I was hoping an FSX native modeler would answer this question but I see that is not going to happen until I step in it.
So, with some caveats, the basic procedure is the same for FSX models but...
Video: For FS9 (and FS8) - Creating a Basic VC Panel and Displaying Gauges in Less than 15 Minutes
by Milton Shupe
The very basic video describes the process necessary to create a basic VC...
