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Panel won't go right

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OBIO

Retired SOH Admin
Working on the panel for the PT-19 Cornell. Ran into a problem. The site window, or what ever you call it, is wonky.....in FS Panel Studio, it looks fine. But in the sim, the forward view is cut off and the lower part is black. I have quadruple checked the panel.bmp back ground to make sure it is 0,0,0 black...it is. I have adjusted the window view setting in FS Panel Studio to max size...and still the panel does not diplay properly in the sim. Anyone have any ideas.

OBIO
 
Hi,

Methink you can ajust this in a chapter of the panel.cfg

Exemple from the default C172

[Default View]
X=0
Y=0
SIZE_X=8192
SIZE_Y=2500

Try play with those numbers ....
 
I adjusted those numbers all the way to max....and that did not change anything...no matter where the numbers are set...the screen does not change.
 
Go to the window properties section of Panel Studio. Set the background sliders for x and y co-ordinates to the desired screen area.
 
Another thing that can cause that in FS9 is if the window has the "render_3d_window=" set to 1 in the panel.cfg.

This flag works great in CFS2 but it causes some real weird stuff in FS9.
 
Changed these settings on the original panel:

[Default View]
X=0
Y=0
SIZE_X=8192
SIZE_Y=4112

into

[Default View]
X=0
Y=0
SIZE_X=8192
SIZE_Y=6142

and got rid of black triangles in the lower corners
Those values will set the background to the full screen size.

Wim
 
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I have set the default view area to the max size several times:

[Default View]
X=0
Y=0
SIZE_X=8192
SIZE_Y=6142and the 2D view is still the same.No change what so ever. Render_3D_Window is not in the config anywhere.

OBIO
 
Sounds like your view is "hung-up" in the sim. Restart FS with another aircraft and then switch to the PT-19. Better yet, restart FS with the FS9 default flight, Cessna at SeaTac. That usually resets FS9's brain.
 
Obio,

just put the panel jpg you posted in psp9 and it showed that all the black area's in the corner read r=1, g=1,and b=1 instead of r=0, g=0 and b=0.
It might be due to the jpg conversion but you might check it again.

Wim
 
The pure black 0,0,0 upper left corner pixel doesn't affect FS9 like it does the older sims. That is tied into just the transparency color.

OBIO,
Email me a copy of your panel.cfg or attach it here. I'll take a closer peek at it tomorrow (my next day off).
 
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I got it figured out....there was some {Views} stuff at the top of the panel config....Forward View stuff. I deleted that and the panel works fine now. Never saw that cause a problem before...but then again, I never had a dream about a 2000 foot tall purple elephant being the source of thunder....but that sure was the dream I had last night.

OBIO
 
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OBIO said:
..... I never had a dream about a 2000 foot tall purple elephant being the source of thunder....but that sure was the dream I had last night.

OBIO
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:icon_lol: :icon_lol:

Watch out for the hail ..... :icon_lol: :icon_lol:

Glad you got the panel sorted.

Pete.
 
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OBIO said:
I got it figured out....there was some {Views} stuff at the top of the panel config....Forward View stuff. I deleted that and the panel works fine now. Never saw that cause a problem before...but then again, I never had a dream about a 2000 foot tall purple elephant being the source of thunder....but that sure was the dream I had last night.

OBIO
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Would you mind sharing those bad boy View entries? Nothing like learning, good and bad, to keep this hobby interesting.
 
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These are the lines that were throwing the panel out of whack:

[VIEWS]
VIEW_FORWARD_WINDOWS=MAIN_PANEL,20,30

VIEW_FORWARD_DIR=3.000, 0.000, 0.000

Like I said, I have never seen these lines cause this problem before.

OBIO
 
Thanks, OBIO.

I wonder if now that your external view has corrected itself, if you could reinsert those Views numbers and be okay or if it will duplicate the screwed up views. Just curious.
 
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