I got a lot of help of the AAO developer when i started developing my own gauges and wanted to summarize that in this tutorial for others. The new layout editor of AAO makes it a lot easier to start without any knowledge and this tutorial is describing step by step how to use it. It is thought for people who are designing their first gauge or are beginners with little or no knowledge about creating 2D cockpit gauges.

You will first learn with a dummy Test-Gauge-Example all functions of the AAO layout editor. Next some simple example gauges are describing base techniques to create gauges.

The zip file contains all images needed for that.

Have fun to try it yourself!

It is available now at flightsim.to

https://de.flightsim.to/file/58848/aao-gauge-layout-editor-tutorial-for-beginners

 

On 7/29/2023 at 7:37 PM, huha001 said:

Thanks. Will give this a try.

I got a lot of help of the AAO developer when i started developing my own gauges and wanted to summarize that in this tutorial for others. The new layout editor of AAO makes it a lot easier to start without any knowledge and this tutorial is describing step by step how to use it. It is thought for people who are designing their first gauge or are beginners with little or no knowledge about creating 2D cockpit gauges.

You will first learn with a dummy Test-Gauge-Example all functions of the AAO layout editor. Next some simple example gauges are describing base techniques to create gauges.

The zip file contains all images needed for that.

Have fun to try it yourself!

It is available now at flightsim.to

https://de.flightsim.to/file/58848/aao-gauge-layout-editor-tutorial-for-beginners

 

 

Thanks. Will give this a try.

On 7/29/2023 at 10:07 AM, huha001 said:

 

I got a lot of help of the AAO developer when i started developing my own gauges and wanted to summarize that in this tutorial for others. The new layout editor of AAO makes it a lot easier to start without any knowledge and this tutorial is describing step by step how to use it. It is thought for people who are designing their first gauge or are beginners with little or no knowledge about creating 2D cockpit gauges.

You will first learn with a dummy Test-Gauge-Example all functions of the AAO layout editor. Next some simple example gauges are describing base techniques to create gauges.

The zip file contains all images needed for that.

Have fun to try it yourself!

It is available now at flightsim.to

https://de.flightsim.to/file/58848/aao-gauge-layout-editor-tutorial-for-beginners

 

Very nice, thanks for all the hard work.

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Keen to give this a go, but embarrassed to say I don’t know where to find the editor. Is it a menu option in AAO? 

7 hours ago, C414AC said:

Keen to give this a go, but embarrassed to say I don’t know where to find the editor. Is it a menu option in AAO? 

In the AAO menu,  "Gauges->Desktop FIPs->Editor (button is in the lower part of the dialog)".

The Gauge Editor is a "live" feature. It shows all moving parts of your gauge right as you create them. It needs the gauge "infrastructure" in the background to be able to do this, hence the necessity for the Desktop FIP handler to be active.

On the editor there is a "?" button at the top that opens the gauge manual.

Edited April 15, 20242 yr by Lorby_SI

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