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P3D v4 VC Panel

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The virtual cockpit for the Spartan Executive has been created by Milton Shupe and he created a 3D panel for the original aircraft model. I successfully created a 2D panel for the modern Spartan Executive including custom gauges some on my own and a lot with help from developers here with the xml code for the specialized gauges unique to this particular real aircraft from photos and a lot of input from the pilot/owner. I want to create a virtual panel that is identical to my 2D panel. I have all six volumes of instruction books that I bought for FSDS 3.5 which I also purchased. Now...I started with Volume 6 which is how to create the 3D VC panel but the example is so much simpler than my panel. Here is a screenshot of the 2D panel. How do I create and place the rectangles for all 93 of these gauges and where are they supposed to be placed for the VC panel? In the same position as the gauges are? I really want to do this but I am lost as "a deer in the headlights" my locations favorite expression. LOL! spartan main panel.jpg
 
Friend, among the paid models I have seen two types of 3D panel, those complex ones with all the 3D modeled gauges, rings, needles, numbers... and also those that only modeled the bases of the gauge leaving "a void" to fill it with a Conventional bitmap in XLM and/or GAU format, I prefer the latter with a more than acceptable result. So you would only have to model the front of the panel. The first option can be endless according to my vision on the subject...!
 
Thank you for the quick reply. I am going to try your latter method and see how that works out. I was almost terrified of this doing it the way FSDS says with rectangles and mirrored and upside down etc. I am going to investigate some of the similar aircraft VC's I have to see if that is how they did it and then try and tackle it. I will be posting results, I pray successful ones here.
 
Tried that but it doesn't work because Milton has a background panel as part of the model and it gets all jumbled up. I guess that I will just fly it with the main 2D panel and the TO/Landing panel view that I created so that you can see over the nose when not in level flight since this is a tail dragger.
 
I don't understand why you should use another panel to optimize the front view. To do this, it would only be necessary to add a selector Up/Down the pilot's seat. In FS2004 when I started flying the Piper Cub and Douglas DC3, the taxi was terrible, I didn't know where I was with the plane, until I found this selector on an old alphasim plane. I still have it if you want to try it...!
 
As long as it is an xml gauge it will work in my P3D V4. Thank you. It probably is code that is SHIFT BACKSPACE and SHIFT ENTER that does that but I like my taxi/landing panel like there IS in the Cessna Skyhawk which is what gave me the idea and I am using that simicon to do it.
 
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