MajorFibbs

Hello Two material options: - Aluminium sheetmetal plate 1.5mm - 2.5mm Plywood (add maybe some wooden ribs for stiffness) Good luck

Hello Thank you for that idea, I can roughly imagine what you did. This is a temporary workaround but unfortunately not practical. For the heading bug / gyro compass, another workaround is to write a plugin. That's what another user did. Not me, since this is also too complex. Let's see what Laminar Research will do. At least they claimed that the future will be generic instruments. Have a nice day - Valentin

Hello I did what you want to do, I think. Here a screenshot of my hi-res panel. Works good and has the orignal size of instruments (3.75 inches). I used planemaker and created all instruments from scratch as so called "generic instruments". To create the high-res artwork use any and a graphic tool such as Photoshop, Gimp or something similar. No programming is required, everthing else is done in planemaker. Suggestion: go the "generic instrument" way. Increasing the resolution of standard instruments is very limited an will not lead to good hi-res instruments. Read the report from Dan Klaue. I fully confirm what he states. Apart from Dan and others, I also supplied a bunch of generic instruments in the download section of www.x-plane.org. Limitation of planemaker: you can not create instruments (like the artificial horizon) which require two inputs (dataref) on one indicator or needle. In some later versions of planemaker this limitation will be solved. But who knows.

Hello I wanted to create also a 2D panel in high-resolution for my Piper-Cockpit. But after a lot of hours working with generic instruments I found a major limitation. I do not know the current status of X-Plane 10 Planemaker. But in Planemaker 9 you can not create generic instruments which require two independant inputs on the same needle or indicator. This limitation affects the artificial horizon (the horizont plate needs pitch and roll) and the heading-bug on a gyro-compass (combination of heading bug (HDG) and actual course). Any other instrument can be done to my knowledge. So let us know if you were able to create an aritficial horizon with generic instruments. There is a rumor that this missing functionality will be implemented in one of the later X-Plane 10 versions. Maybe 10.4. Currently we are at 10.04.