VC panel modification

[Gary R.]

Is there anyone here who has worked with Virtual cockpit design? My question is that even though I have figured out how to work with 2D bmp files and panel cfg's to change or add gauges on a 2D panel it sort of annoys me a little if I had a great looking gauge added in the 2D panel then go into the VC view and not see it on the panel there.  Therefor, I'm wondering if anyone knows how to edit gauges appearing in the virtual cockpit views.  I have modifies a VC already just writing the gauge at that time into an already positioned slot but if I wanted to locate it somwhere there is no co-ordinates already calculated I wouldn't have been able to cause unlike a 2d panel i can't use paint or any program available to me now to facilitate gauge placement in a VC and I was just wondering how designers actually do it.

Thanks guys

[fredolo]

Same question here, if someone could help us it would be very kind !

[Hagar]

Conventional gauges can be added to an existing DVC by editing the [VCockpitxx] entries in Panel.cfg. All DVCs will vary & unless you do a straight swap with an existing gauge, positioning the gauges will usually be a matter of trial & error. It doesn't always work out as you might think. CfgEdit can read the DVC entries which might be some help but you would need some idea of the basics & how the various [VCockpitxx] entries were originally assigned. Some aircraft will have just one DVC entry while others are spread out over several. This will depend on the designer's preferences & also depends on the type of aircraft. You're restricted by what's there & cannot modify the actual DVC without the source file of the aircraft.