The FU3 Cockpit Designer


Tutorial 1 - The Interface

 

Toolbar Buttons

Create New Project
Open Project
Save Project

Build Project (update .res file)

Select Cockpit View
Edit Inside Rectangles
Edit Outside Rectangles

 

Control Panel

Each FU3 cockpit view consists of all or part of these elements:

Inside Image
Inside Rectangles
Outside Image
Outside Rectangles
Instruments

The control panel lets you select which of these elements will be visible in the view window.


Each image has several image sets which reflect different lighting conditions.
You can select the current image-set via the image-sets buttons on the control panel:



Aircraft without cabin lights have only 2 image sets:

Day Unlit
Night Unlit

Aircraft with cabin lights have 4 image sets:

Day Unlit (cabin lights off)
Night Unlit (cabin lights off)
Day Lit (cabin lights on)
Night Lit (cabin lights on)

 

View Window

The view window displays the bitmaps and the rectangles that define a single cockpit view.

 

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