X/Y coords for placing RXP into panels... I don't get it

[turner112]

Ok, the panel config for the default 172 shows the panel placement for the 530 as:

frame.rect = 1,1023,520,390

Let's stick with that one for now.

For the 530, the Panel.png file shows a left of 1 but ALSO a top of 1, rather than 1023, as shown above.

What am I missing here?

 

[BluesmanEP]

The coordinates for the RXP screen count from the bottom row, not the top. Pixel 1,1 is the very bottom left corner.

[RXP]

As written p17 of the GNS User's Manual:

Note: frame.rect is the actual render position and size: X1 is the left value, the width and height are the value computed in the previous steps. The top value is computed like this: ("height of Panel_Preview.png" - Y1)

[Adrian123]

May add. It just takes a little practice. It becomes self evident after a few tries.

[turner112]

Ok... got it

[ryanbatc]

On 12/31/2017 at 1:12 PM, Adrian123 said:

May add. It just takes a little practice. It becomes self evident after a few tries.

I can attest to this - in my Bell 407 thread I had a heck of a time with the coords.  Wish there was a better way to get rxp into xp addons.

[RXP]

6 hours ago, ryanbatcund said:

Wish there was a better way to get rxp into xp addons.

Me too! We're working on this though in the background!

[Adrian123]

Need of an "FSPanel Studio" for XP. :)

[RXP]

Need the concepts of separate Panel and Gauge in XPlane, instead of 'bunch of polygons only editable in the 3D tool by the aircraft modeler'! Or at least: "plugin load any .obj and display any texture on it"

None of this exists today, except for their own internal use with the new FMC/G1000/GNS (which have their own separate render texture - well a frame buffer object internally - separate from the panel texture render target which is hard-coded/modelled with the aircraft polygons).