Gauges for Combat Flight Simulator

The bitmaps for the gauge took a couple evenings to get to the way I wanted them.
The actual reprogramming took much less than one evening working from the Corsair 500 Knot ASI.
I have tested the gauge and it works, but don't have a good A6M panel as a host. All the panel updates described earlier in this thread have been lost even though the gauges can be reproduced.
I also still have yet to find a current MDL with the latest updates since the initial release in 2013.

- Ivan.
 
For those of you who might be interested in setting up a Gauge Development environment, here are a couple screenshots to give you an idea of how I do things using the FS2000 SDK for CFS1 Gauges.
It doesn't quite follow all of the SDK example structure because I wanted things connected to one gauge in a single director for ease of locating and editing.

The Gauge is for Cylinder Head Temperature based on the appearance of that from the P-47 Thunderbolt.
It was created as a Gauge SET so that there is a separate gauge for Engine 1 through Engine 4.
It makes the resulting library a bit bigger but saves the hassle if someone down the road wanrs to borrow the set for use on a 4-engine aircraft.
There have been a couple cases of folks around here finding a suitable appearing set of gauges and finding that they only had a set of three instead of four.

The first screenshot shows the needed source code for a gauge set.
Note that "Originals" is the directory used to store the pieces used to create the background or pointer bitmaps.
There is a JPG image of what the real gauge actually looks like which of course is not essential, but is a good reference.
When I am not so lazy, there might be a different background for each of the 4 gauges with slightly differently timed screws, etc.

The second screenshot shows an execution of the nmake build utility on the makefile that contains build instructions and dependencies.

- Ivan.

P47D-CHT-GaugeSource.jpgGauge-Compile-Sequence.jpg
 
Here is what the A6M panel looks like with all the latest gauge updates.

- Ivan.


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