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1920 x 1080 resolution - shift panels too small

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Hi all,

I play FSX from the sofa in front on the big TV, I have a small family and my 2nd daughter who is 6 months old took my man cave away from me :)

Anyway I have the game set at 1920 x 1080 and I play from about 3-4ft from the television. I find the pop up panels shift 2,3,4 etc are a little hard to see. The obvious solution is to drop the resolution but this makes the game look poor. I've just seen in another thread from an old timer called tony that he has edited panel.cfg because he has similar issues. For an old timer he knows more than me it appears! He has a better system as well damn it. :)

So my question is can anyone give me guidance to edit this file to increase the panel size particular for the A2A skylane?

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Re: 1920 x 1080 resolution - shift panels too small

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Hello Sid,

I believe what you need to do is change the "pixel_size=" field for these panels in the 'panel.cfg' file which is located here: ...SimObjects\Airplanes\A2A_C182\panel (the first bit of the path will depend on whether it's an FSX or P3D installation etc.)

So to make the shift+3 'controls' panel twice as big for example, you'd edit this section as follows:

[Window02]
Background_color=0,0,0
size_mm=321,311
pixel_size=642,622 // 321,311 original value
window_pos= 0.51, 0.2

As always with such edits, please back up the original first! And bear in mind the panels won't tessellate on screen as originally designed if you try this. In other words, they'll overlap if you got multiple panels open. :wink:

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Most helpful Nick as always, i'll give it go later.

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Re: 1920 x 1080 resolution - shift panels too small

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Thanks for the help, this worked perfectly! I increased the pop ups by 30% and my eyeballs are no longer falling off. :)

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Re: 1920 x 1080 resolution - shift panels too small

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Glad it helped Sid. I hate to think of you having to get up off the sofa to peer at those 2-D pop-ups! :mrgreen:

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Thought I had actually popped my retina the other night!

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Re: 1920 x 1080 resolution - shift panels too small

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Thank you so much for the link to adjusting the panel.cfg files.

Is there a simliar way to increase the size of the hint boxes that appear when hovering the cursor over an instrument?

Wayne

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Re: 1920 x 1080 resolution - shift panels too small

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Wayne - please see my reply in the original thread here.

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Re: 1920 x 1080 resolution - shift panels too small

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hi,

shift panels too big

A2A_Beechcraft_35_Bonanza

I have adjusted all 2d panels to fit my computer screen , except the check engine 2d panel which is opened from within the maintenance hanger. and dont know which gauge window number it is, that I need to adjust the pixel_size.
can anyone please tell me the window number of the gauge that I need to resize the pixel_size, in the panel.cfg

any help would be greatly welcomed

Steve S
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Re: 1920 x 1080 resolution - shift panels too small

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Hi Steve,

The engine details in the panel.cfg use [Window12]. The instrument details use [Window15] when default GPS units are used, or [Window13] when third-party GPS products are integrated.

Note that if you're making the panels bigger, you can use the "4K" option in the Aircraft Configurator for the Bonanza to do this automatically. However, you say they're too big so you want to make them smaller? Any idea what resolution your monitor is running at?

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Re: 1920 x 1080 resolution - shift panels too small

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hi nick

am using 4k

mon res is 1920x1080

am using f1 gtn750 and gtn650

in panel.cfg noticed two pixel_size settings n the highest values were being put in first n lowest second so i just switched them n worked, with lower values in first the 2d panels are the correct size n only having this issue in the A2A_Beechcraft_35_Bonanza. have pretty much all other a2a planes n there 2d panels are perfect

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Re: 1920 x 1080 resolution - shift panels too small

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duuuhhh found the 2d percent adjustment in the configurator it was set to 200 wow guess just thought I had read the manual, pays to bu orig panel.cfg

tnx nick

steve
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Re: 1920 x 1080 resolution - shift panels too small

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Hi Steve,

Yeah, wondered if it was something like that as it's pretty unusual for people to complain that the panels are too big. Glad to hear you're sorted anyway. :)

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