The FU3 Cockpit Designer


Tutorial 2 - Creating a New Project

Before you can edit an aircraft's cockpit, you need to create a Cockpit Designer project.
When you create a project, all the cockpit bitmaps and definition files are extracted from the aircraft .res file into your hard-disk.
So make sure you have sufficient disk-space before you create a project (roughly 10 times the size of the aircraft .res file)

To create a new project, Click the New Project icon on the Toolbar or select Project->New from the menu.
The New Project dialog will be displayed:

Project Name:

This is where you type the name of the project ( for example: Trainer )


Location:

The location of a project is a folder under which the project folder will be created.
For example: if the location is C:\Projects and the Project Name is Trainer - the project will be created in C:\Projects\Trainer

When you first run the Cockpit Designer , a projects folder is automatically created for you under the main Cockpit Designer folder.
It is recommended you create all your projects in the projects folder, but you can create them anywhere on your hard-drive(s).


Plane File (.res) :

Click the Browse... button and select the .res file of the aircraft you want to edit.

Backup the .res file before creating the project

 

After you fill all the details, Click the OK button.
The Creating New Project dialog will display the project creation progress.

After the project creation process is completed, click the OK button.
You will be presented with the Select View dialog:

Click on the button of the view you would like to edit, continue to the next tutorial - Editing Existing Views

 

Opening an existing project

Click the Open Project icon on the Toolbar or select Project->Open from the menu.
In the Open dialog, locate the .cdp file of your project and double-click on it to open the project.
For example: if your project is located in C:\Projects\Trainer open the file C:\Projects\Trainer\Trainer.cdp

 

 

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