Panel Design Tutorial. The purpose of this tutorial is to give people a BASIC idea on how to design panels in Paint Shop Pro 7.You must have Paint Shop Pro before starting to read the tutorial and making panels. Download a trial version at jasc.com. This tutorial gives you a better undertanding of how panel designing is done. It does not deal with the addition of gauges, only design. (I plan to make another tutorial specifically on Gauges) Also included in the .zip is a 'template' panel.cfg that must be modified depending on the panel. The tutorial is in Rich text format (Word). Tutorial by Havoc Wreaker (Zone). 718K

Find GAU! Version 1.0.0 by Bill Yiannakos,Copyright (c) 2002,ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.THIS PROGRAM IS FREEWARE. Find GAU! searches MSFS panel.cfg files and finds which gauges are mentioned in them and so, which gauges are included in the linked panel. Very useful for panel disigners. 35K

FS2000 gauge lighting utility.(makepink11.zip) FS2000 gauge lighting utility. Adds the soft pink night lighting to FS98/CFS gauges. Version 1.1 works with more gauges, including the large CFS "clustered" GAU files. A new option adds FS98-style night lighting to unlit gauges. An added utility changes the FS2000 GPS gauge background lighting. Requires Visual Basic 4.0 driver files. By Chuck Dome.

Scalemaker: A utility for FS98\2000 panel designers. This program makes it easy to create scales for round dial gauges for FS98/2000. The user only has to enter six parameters into the program for it to draw and display the scale on screen. The scale can be saved as a bitmap and edited using any paint program. FREEWARE by Scott Macmillan. 150K

FS2000 gauge hacking utility. Displays raw numbers so that gauge designers may discover new variables in the absence of a new SDK. By Chuck Dome. 68K

FS98/CFS/FS2000 GAU to BMP utility. Extracts bitmaps from gauge files and reinserts them after repainting. Requires Visual Basic 5.0 drivers (SP3 version). By Chuck Dome. 145K

FS98/CFS Gauges and Panel.cfg Uninstaller This an application that allow you to delete a "Panel.cfg" file with the gauges files used by it. Will not delete gauges used by other panels. This application was developed in Visual Basic. It doesnt require any file. By Manuel Ambulo . 2.9MB

So You Want to Build a Dynamic Virtual Cockpit! A tutorial for Abacus FS Design Studio Pro by J.P. Amodea A step-by-step tutorial aimed at the experienced 3D modeller and wouldbe modeller alike. Anyone who has built a virtual aircraft with DS Pro may add a spectacular active instruments 3D cockpit with a little extra effort. No arcane knowledge required. Enjoy! Joe Amodea. 1.6MB

Gauge Copier - lite version v2.0 By request a version without the VB runtime files - VB 4 runtime files available here . Extracts all gauges for a given panel to a directory of your choice. Remembers all previous paths. Now tested working with FS98 and FS2000. Dai Griffiths, Dragonflight Design. 24K

Gauge Copier 5 for CFS 1&2, FS98 and FS2000 & FS2002 Extracts all gauges for a given panel to a directory of your choice. Remembers all previous paths and allows selection and deletion of individual gauges. This version corrects misleading error messages and a path creation bug. Executable file only so you must already have VB4 32-bit runtime files on your PC. Dai Griffiths, Dragonflight Design 40K