FS Panel Studio

[Rich H]

Well, I'm interested in having a go with this sort of thing, so I was looking at buying FS panel studio. Anyone use this or had experiences of it?

[Felix/FFDS]

Unless you're quite confident with trial and error and using notepad (or a text editor) to handle the panel.cfg, it's really the defacto "standard"  in panel making.

IT is one of those payware programs that's worh the purchase.

=== in my opinioin of course...

[WebbPA]

Well worth it.  I've been using it since FS2000.

(Now I'm up to FS2002.)

[Capt.Propwash]

i personally can not do the background .bmp's only because i dont have the program.   BUT i can, however, build a panel.cfg using default gauges and others from other craft that i have downloaded.  Placing .gau's on a .bmp is simple and easy.  Then again, so is probably 'painting' the background .bmp "panel".


Speaking of which, i need to do a little work on the POSKY 747-400v4 Passenger in the way of, if you are in the 2d cockpit and press "W" you get the 2 glass instruments right in the middle of the bottom of the screen.   I want to spread them out a little so that I can see basically what is behind them, ie: a runway possibly.

[WebbPA]

Speaking of which, i need to do a little work on the POSKY 747-400v4 Passenger in the way of, if you are in the 2d cockpit and press "W" you get the 2 glass instruments right in the middle of the bottom of the screen.   I want to spread them out a little so that I can see basically what is behind them, ie: a runway possibly.

Does this use a custom panel for the W toggle?  Everything I have uses one of the default configurations in the \aircraft\default\panel\panel.cfg file.  I suppose it's possible that an individual aircraft could override that configuration but I've never seen it done.

[dave3cu]

Webb wrote:
[quote]Does this use a custom panel for the W toggle?

[Capt.Propwash]

[quote][quote]Speaking of which, i need to do a little work on the POSKY 747-400v4 Passenger in the way of, if you are in the 2d cockpit and press "W" you get the 2 glass instruments right in the middle of the bottom of the screen.

[Fr. Bill]

Well, I'm interested in having a go with this sort of thing, so I was looking at buying FS panel studio. Anyone use this or had experiences of it?

Without any doubt whatever, it has been the best "investment" I've ever made in FS.

It is one of the very few FS tools that has been continuously updated for FREE since first being released.

I've been using FSPS for well over ten years now. Before that, I used the freeware predecessor, CFGEDIT.exe (which, btw still sort of works for very simple panel design).

[WebbPA]

I don't know why MS put them at the bottom.  I moved them all to the top.  I didn't remember whether you could override the default minipanel but I guess you can.  It's been a while since I've played with one of these.