Merge Aircraft Tutorial

[AntonioK]

Hiya,

First off I'd like to say that I absolutely love the models built. I'm a huge fan of the 'bus, over boeing, and your work captures its essence fantastically. With that said, I'm looking to obtain the full experience with the airbus 320 series. At current, I have PSS Airbus family (18/19/29/21) for FS9, and I love it's panel and I love the flight dynamics. However, the external model isn't well crafted at all.

I'm wondering if someone can point me in the right direction on how to do a successful aircraft merge between your product and PSS Airbus'? I'm a complete novice when it comes to this, so hopefully I don't screw anything up while attempting it.

Any guidance in this quest would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

[esg]

Open the panel.cfg and change the alias to point to "PSSABPro/panel"

[AntonioK]

Hmm, would you mine elaborating? Which panel CFG to open, how to incorporate the other models, etc? Apologies for my ignorance.

[nzeddy]

Go here: (or wherever you've installed FS9) C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator 9\Airplanes\Project Airbus A380-800 [AIRLINE]\panel. Open the panel.cfg with notepad.

You will see this:

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[fltsim]
alias=B737_400\panel

Replace that with this:

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[fltsim]
alias=PSSABPro\panel

Click save or Ctrl+S.

Now start FS9, choose the PA A380 that you've installed the panel merge into and the PSS panel should show up in FS9.

That should work but not 100% sure. I only have FSX.

EDIT: Whoops! I thought you were talking about the A380. My bad.

[AntonioK]

So the "[flstim] alias=B737_400\panel" will be the only text in the PA Airbus Panel CFG file? Or is it hidden somewhere in the CFG?

In addition, all I have to do is paste "[fltsim] alias=PSSABPro\panel" and it should exactly mirror the PSS Airbus operations?

[simnico971]

Yep. That's all

The 'alias' command in panel.cfg says (to?)* fs to take the PSS one



*Sorry I'm french :mrgreen:

[AntonioK]

So when I open the PANEL CFG file in the PA Airbus that I downloaded from AVSIM (project_airbus_a320_delta.zip), this is what I see:

// Panel Configuration file
// Boeing 737-400
// Copyright (c) 1999-2003 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

[Window Titles]
window00=Main Panel
window01=Radio Stack
Window02=GPS
window03=Throttle Quadrant
window04=Overhead Panel
window05=Compass
Window06=Mini Panel

[Window00]
file=Main_640.bmp
file_1024=Main_1024.bmp
size_mm=640
position=7
visible=1
ident=MAIN_PANEL

gauge00=737-400!Airspeed, 0, 64
gauge01=737-400!Flaps, 586, 64
gauge02=737-400!Altimeter, 237, 45
gauge03=737-400!Vertical Speed, 238, 128
gauge04=737-400!Fuel Quantity, 236, 204
gauge05=737-400!Main Set, 335, 85
gauge06=737-400!OMI Lights, 1, 153
gauge07=737-400!Oil, 468, 85
gauge08=737-400!Clock, 17, 147
gauge09=737-400!RMI, 1, 211
gauge10=737-400!HSI, 86, 162
gauge11=737-400!ADI, 85, 39
gauge12=737-400!Gear Lever, 586, 217
gauge13=737-400!Nose Gear Light, 594, 180
gauge14=737-400!Left Gear Light, 579, 198
gauge15=737-400!Right Gear Light, 609, 198
gauge16=737-400!Reverser Unlocked Left, 354, 68
gauge17=737-400!Reverser Unlocked Right, 416, 68
gauge18=737-400!AT Lim, 385, 68
gauge19=737-400!Low Oil Left, 458, 68
gauge20=737-400!Low Oil Right, 519, 68
gauge21=737-400!Start Valve Left, 489, 68
gauge22=737-400!Start Valve Right, 549, 68
gauge23=737-400!Flaps Ext, 609, 115
gauge24=737-400!Flaps Transit, 579, 115
gauge25=737-400!Autopilot, 336, 11
gauge26=737-400!Pitch Trim, 305, 144
gauge27=737-400!Aileron Trim Indicator, 242, 261
gauge28=737-400!Aileron Trim Switch, 248, 276
gauge29=737-400!Rudder Trim Indicator, 285, 261
gauge30=737-400!Rudder Trim Knob, 290, 276
gauge31=737-400!Nav GPS Switch, 306, 17
gauge32=737-400!Avionics Master Switch, 239, 300
gauge33=737-400!Autobrake, 581, 134
gauge34=SimIcons!Kneeboard Icon, 181, 10
gauge35=SimIcons!ATC Icon, 194, 10
gauge36=SimIcons!Compass Icon, 264, 10
gauge37=SimIcons!ECU Icon, 250, 10
gauge38=SimIcons!Map Icon, 208, 10
gauge39=SimIcons!Avionics Icon, 222, 10
gauge40=SimIcons!GPS Icon, 236, 10

[Window01]
size_mm=127,345
position=8
visible=0
BACKGROUND_COLOR=16,16,16
ident=RADIO_STACK_PANEL

gauge00=737-400!Comm 1, 0, 0
gauge01=737-400!Comm 2, 0, 54
gauge02=737-400!Nav 1, 0, 108
gauge03=737-400!Nav 2, 0, 162
gauge04=737-400!Transponder, 0, 216
gauge05=737-400!ADF, 0, 265
gauge06=737-400!Audio, 0, 319


[Window02]
size_mm=456,378
window_size=0.5
position=8
BACKGROUND_COLOR=0,0,0
VISIBLE=0
ident=GPS_PANEL

gauge00=fs9gps!gps_500, 0,0


[Window03]
size_mm=203
windowsize_ratio=1.0
position=0
BACKGROUND_COLOR=16,16,16
visible=0
ident=THROTTLE_PANEL

gauge00=737-400!Throttle Quadrant, 0, 0


[Window04]
file=Upper_640.bmp
size_mm=327
position=2
visible=1
ident=OVERHEAD_PANEL

gauge00=737-400!Strobe Lights, 18, 13
gauge01=737-400!Navigation Lights, 45, 13
gauge02=737-400!Landing Lights, 67, 13
gauge03=737-400!Beacon Lights, 91, 13
gauge04=737-400!Deice Switch, 117, 13
gauge05=737-400!Pitot Heat, 143, 13
gauge06=737-400!Fuel Crossfeed, 167, 14
gauge07=737-400!Engine Start Left, 219, 17
gauge08=737-400!Engine Start Right, 273, 17


[Window05]
file=737_compass.bmp
size_mm=70
position=1
visible=0
ident=COMPASS_PANEL

gauge00=Magnetic_Compass!Magnetic-Compass,0,0

[Window06]
position=7
size_mm=551,151
child_3d=1
background_color=0,0,0
ident=MINIPANEL

gauge00=737-400!Airspeed, 0, 34
gauge01=737-400!ADI, 88, 10
gauge02=737-400!HSI, 243, 0
gauge03=737-400!Altimeter, 398, 34
gauge04=737-400!Vertical Speed, 486, 42


[VCockpit01]
size_mm=512,512
pixel_size=512,512
texture=$737_1
background_color=0,0,0

gauge00=737-400!OMI Lights, 121, 294, 17, 56
gauge01=737-400!Airspeed, 250, 379, 129, 129
gauge02=737-400!RMI, 384, 362, 124, 149
gauge03=737-400!Altimeter, 144, 409, 102, 102
gauge04=737-400!Vertical Speed, 41, 410, 99, 101
gauge05=737-400!Clock, 140, 303, 99, 99
gauge06=737-400!ADI, 320, 0, 192, 166
gauge07=737-400!HSI, 322, 166, 186, 193
gauge08=737-400!Fuel Quantity, 2, 338, 115, 55
gauge09=737-400!Main Set, 0, 0, 172, 293
gauge10=737-400!Oil, 171, 0, 142, 291
gauge11=737-400!Flaps, 261, 291, 58, 58
gauge12=737-400!Nose Gear Light, 79, 295, 38, 19
gauge13=737-400!Left Gear Light, 1, 417, 35, 17
gauge14=737-400!Right Gear Light, 1, 474, 35, 17
gauge15=737-400!Flaps Ext, 42, 295, 34, 18
gauge16=737-400!Flaps Transit, 244, 354, 36, 18
gauge17=737-400!Reverser Unlocked Left, 82, 316, 34, 17
gauge18=737-400!Reverser Unlocked Right, 283, 354, 36, 18
gauge19=737-400!AT Lim, 44, 316, 34, 17
gauge20=737-400!Start Valve Left, 1, 455, 35, 16
gauge21=737-400!Low Oil Left, 1, 437, 35, 16
gauge22=737-400!Low Oil Right, 1, 398, 35, 16
gauge23=737-400!Start Valve Right, 1, 494, 35, 16
gauge24=Magnetic_Compass!Magnetic-Compass, 1, 294, 39, 39


[VCockpit02]
file=737_Panel_Decals_2.bmp
size_mm=512,512
pixel_size=512,512
texture=$737_2
background_color=0,0,0

gauge00=737-400!Comm 1, 1, 1, 169, 71
gauge01=737-400!Comm 2, 1, 73, 169, 71
gauge02=737-400!Nav 1, 171, 1, 169, 71
gauge03=737-400!Nav 2, 171, 73, 169, 71
gauge04=737-400!Transponder, 341, 1, 169, 64
gauge05=737-400!ADF, 341, 67, 169, 70
gauge06=737-400!Audio, 1, 146, 167, 35
gauge07=737-400!Autopilot, 0, 183, 466, 71
gauge08=737-400!Rudder Trim Indicator, 443, 140, 67, 21
gauge09=737-400!Aileron Trim Indicator, 374, 140, 67, 21
gauge10=737-400!Pitch Trim, 475, 170, 36, 81
gauge11=737-400!Throttle Quadrant, 0, 260, 234, 252

[Default View]
X=0
Y=0
SIZE_X=8192
SIZE_Y=2600

[Color]
Day=255,255,255
Night=205,101,100
Luminous=147,64,64

When I clear it out and put: "[fltsim] alias=PSSABPro\panel" and save it, nothing shows up as the panel in the Sim. I just have to virtual cockpit modes, practically, with no virtual cockpit. Did I do something wrong? Or is there something missing?

[Lrusso]

In FS9 you can only merge panels.

The merging of virtual cockpits is a FSX feature and requires 2 separate models a Exterior Model and a Interior Model.