posted 07-29- 07:05 PM               

OK, forstly you should be able to fix all this in OPS, you need to open your panel in OPS and click on each nedle in turn making the LOD active. You do this by clciking on the needle in the model colum, and then in the LOD colum, right click on the LOD and select "Make LOD Active", a little marker will appear next to the LOD in that colum and the needle will appear, do this for all of them. Now you can zoom in on your panel and you will see that each needle is visible so you can line them up exactly where you want them. OK, thats the first half of the problem, you now know that they are all in the right places, but what has also happend is that the DOF's are all screwed up, so, you will need to turn the whole panel so you're looking at it from the side almost, just so you can see across the face of the panle from the side, you now click on the first needle in your model colum, and select DOF mode, that will bring up your now massive looking DOF indicator, you ned to line up the centre of the DOF with the bottom point of the needle. Once you've done that, save the SM and go onto the next needle and repeat what you've just done. This is damn fiddly, and those massive DOF indicators don't make it any easier, but you'll get there. Also, make sure that the needles are right ontop of the dials, if there is a gap they will look out of place when viewed from the pilots position as that gap makes it look out of line even if from directly infront they look right. Just move the needle backwards using the Ctrl Left Arrow until it vanishes into the dial, then bring it forwards until it appears, use single presses of the arrow to move it step by step.

At some point in the future I intend to make Dial SMs, one large and one small, so that you have an actual Dial and Needle perfectly lined up that you can copy and paste into a blank panel, line it up and change the texture ref and you're done, this will make cockpits very much simler, but for now you have to go through all that I've said above

Good luck Ren