13.08.2009, 11:44
Sure, no problem for the conversions...
btw you dont need any online conversion tool, just google 'convert XX km/h to mph' (no quotes), where XX is how many kph you want to convert to mph. Works for everything, e.g. 'convert 150 lbs to kg', 'convert 100 USD to EUR', just use 'convert [how much] [what] to [what].
Anyhow, back to our gauges, I'm not an expert in any image manipulation software, I started this thread thinking (hoping) that I could simply use some config file to tell that plane "load [those] gauges. Turns out that would affect the original plane too, so now we're going into actual cockpit building...
now my next idea was to build cockpits for the planes that use the "wrong" gauges using the cockpit layout from one plane and the gauges from another one.
You suggest to use the same gauges but changing the face to make them similar to those used in the country where that plane comes from, using conversion tables to know where to put the marks, but there's still the "donor plane problem". IIUC, changing a gauge would affect all the planes that use that gauge, so we'd need to make a copy of that gauge that's only used by the particular plane that we're changing, and edit the copy leaving the original alone. I hope I'll figure out how to do that (I guess the info is out there and I would find it sooner or later, following those links)
As we have to create a new cockpit that only that plane would use, why not use the gauges from a different cockpit?
I mean, we dont know how accurate they would be but on the other hand, we dont know how accurate a bunch of P38 gauges are on a ki46 either. In other words, the question is what would work better for a Japanese plane, if a bunch of Japanese gauges or American gauges repainted to look Japanese.
Would using Japanese gauges (or German for the fw200, etc) be so difficult?
But OK, I think I have some reading to do, I'll be back with more questions
As for the software to use, point me to any tutorials that use any software, I can run most stuff and if there's something I can't run, I can always try to find out who to do it on a different program.
Thx for the answers, and of course, if anyone feels inspired to make one (or more) of these 'temporary cockpits', please do!
btw you dont need any online conversion tool, just google 'convert XX km/h to mph' (no quotes), where XX is how many kph you want to convert to mph. Works for everything, e.g. 'convert 150 lbs to kg', 'convert 100 USD to EUR', just use 'convert [how much] [what] to [what].
Anyhow, back to our gauges, I'm not an expert in any image manipulation software, I started this thread thinking (hoping) that I could simply use some config file to tell that plane "load [those] gauges. Turns out that would affect the original plane too, so now we're going into actual cockpit building...
now my next idea was to build cockpits for the planes that use the "wrong" gauges using the cockpit layout from one plane and the gauges from another one.
You suggest to use the same gauges but changing the face to make them similar to those used in the country where that plane comes from, using conversion tables to know where to put the marks, but there's still the "donor plane problem". IIUC, changing a gauge would affect all the planes that use that gauge, so we'd need to make a copy of that gauge that's only used by the particular plane that we're changing, and edit the copy leaving the original alone. I hope I'll figure out how to do that (I guess the info is out there and I would find it sooner or later, following those links)
As we have to create a new cockpit that only that plane would use, why not use the gauges from a different cockpit?
I mean, we dont know how accurate they would be but on the other hand, we dont know how accurate a bunch of P38 gauges are on a ki46 either. In other words, the question is what would work better for a Japanese plane, if a bunch of Japanese gauges or American gauges repainted to look Japanese.
Would using Japanese gauges (or German for the fw200, etc) be so difficult?
But OK, I think I have some reading to do, I'll be back with more questions
As for the software to use, point me to any tutorials that use any software, I can run most stuff and if there's something I can't run, I can always try to find out who to do it on a different program.
Thx for the answers, and of course, if anyone feels inspired to make one (or more) of these 'temporary cockpits', please do!