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F-14 guages
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Fri Mar 26, 2004 2:57 pmby Tequila Sunrise
After almost 2 hours downloading I managed to get the new(ish) F-14 but the guages don't show up in the VC or on the 2D panel even though I've put them in the right folders and checked 3 times, anyone got any ideas or had similar problems?
Re: F-14 guages
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Thu Apr 01, 2004 7:10 amby Tequila Sunrise
anybody
Re: F-14 guages
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Thu Apr 01, 2004 2:56 pmby BFMF
What files are you referring to?
Re: F-14 guages
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Fri Apr 02, 2004 7:50 amby Tequila Sunrise
F-14bfs9a, sorry ::)
It flys ok, the and the panel shows but there are no guages evn though I have installed them ???
Re: F-14 guages
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Fri Apr 02, 2004 9:41 pmby dave3cu
My guess is you copied a 'gauges' (containing the F-14 gauges) folder into the 'FS2002\gauges' folder. A no-no.
The *.gau files must be immediatly below the FS2002\gauges folder and NOT a sub folder.
Cheers,
Dave
Re: F-14 guages
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Sat Apr 03, 2004 9:23 amby Tequila Sunrise
nope, same as every other plane I've got and they still don't work
Re: F-14 guages
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Sat Apr 03, 2004 12:32 pmby WebbPA
Do you have a gauge checking progran like fsGauges
http://www.fsgauges.com/ so you can confirm that they are there or cfgEdit so you can see what they are supposed to look like? CfgEdit will give you a lot of error messages if the gauges are missing.
One big caveat, fsGauges doesn't do .xml gauges. It will tell you they are all missing.
Re: F-14 guages
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Sun Apr 04, 2004 1:47 pmby Tequila Sunrise
thanks I'll check it out tonight 8)
Re: F-14 guages
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Sun Apr 04, 2004 2:05 pmby Hagar
Craig. I would check this out but don't want to get involved with large downloads I have no use for. Are you using the panel included with the F-14 or the recommended one at the bottom of this page?
http://www.simviation.com/fs2004panels5.htm
Re: F-14 guages
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Sun Apr 04, 2004 3:26 pmby Tequila Sunrise
I've been using the default panel, or trying to anyway. I'd rather fly this one from the VC so adding a new panel isn't really an option :)
Re: F-14 guages
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Sun Apr 04, 2004 3:36 pmby Hagar
OK. Downloading a 30 Mb file is out of the question right now or I would check it out. Many panels feature 3 different types of gauges these days. The old familiar GAU files + 2 types of XML gauges. These are any number of XML & BMP files either in compressed CAB format or configured in an ordinary folder. It's important to be able to recognise them as gauges & install them properly. Each of the 3 types is pasted directly into FS2002\Gauges. CAB files look just like zipfiles. Don't extract them or they won't work.
Make sure you follow the install instructions carefully.
Re: F-14 guages
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Mon Apr 05, 2004 3:46 pmby Tequila Sunrise
got 'em sorted now 8)
managed to get it on deck without colapsing the landing gear as well 8)
thanks guys ;D
Re: F-14 guages
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Mon Apr 05, 2004 4:30 pmby Hagar
Great. Well done.
So what turned out to be the problem? You're not allowed to say you fixed it without telling us how. Unwrtitten forum rule.
Re: F-14 guages
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Mon Apr 05, 2004 5:17 pmby Tequila Sunrise
there are three sets of guages within the d/l two are gau. files the other wasn't but I'd copied them directly to the guages folder :P
Re: F-14 guages
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Tue Apr 06, 2004 3:52 amby Hagar
At least you finally fixed it.
There are so many ways of configuring downloads these days. All designers have their own methods & preferences which makes it very difficult to give reliable advice. There might be a good reason for including 3 sets of gauges with this particular aircraft but I never saw any sense in that - or why so many include zipfiles within the main zipfile. This just makes a simple job over-complicated. If everything was configured properly & carefully checked before uploading the files, installing any addon would be a piece of cake. A simple matter of cut & paste. There would be no need for auto-install, install manager utilities or anything else.
OK. Rant over. LOL