F-14 guages

[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?

[Tequila Sunrise]

anybody

[BFMF]

What files are you referring to?

[Tequila Sunrise]

F-14bfs9a, sorry  ::)
It flys ok, the and the panel shows but there are no guages evn though I have installed them  ???

[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

[Tequila Sunrise]

nope, same as every other plane I've got and they still don't work

[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.

[Tequila Sunrise]

thanks I'll check it out tonight  8)

[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

[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  :)

[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.

[Tequila Sunrise]

got 'em sorted now  8)
managed to get it on deck without colapsing the landing gear as well  8)

thanks guys  ;D

[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.

[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

[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