Making a simple 2d panel?

[nosecone]

Hi all,
I am building a helicopter simpit based on a MD500E.
I will be using a 20 inch lcd monitor to dispaly just the gauges and placing a face plate over the top with the holes cut out were the gauges are. A 20 inch monitor is very close to the size of the area that the instrument on the real aircraft are displayed

I want to creat a 2D panel that takes up all the space on the monitor.

I created a test bitmap and placed that in a helicopter panel folder, re named it to make it show up. My bitmap showed up full screen but when I went to place some gauges on the panel they did not appear.
I am using a graphics programe called pixia to place the gauges for the XY co-ordinates.

Is there an simple way of creating a 2d panel make it appear full screen and place the gauges on.

Cheers

Rhys

[AndyT]

FSPS
Flight Sim Panel Studio.
It does exactly what you're trying to do.

http://www.pcaviator.com/shop/viewAProduct.php?pid=216

[nosecone]

Thanks AndyT

Is there any way of doing it with out puchasing Flight Sim Panel Studio.
I am only making a one-off panel, so I can't see me using it more than once.

Cheers
Rhys

[Michael Carter]

Your answer was given at FS.com.

You can still do it without the Panel Studio program though.

Just place and re-size each and every gauge in the correct spot using the coordinate system on your background bit-map.

[nosecone]

Thanks Micheal
I have been checking my post over at FS.com and only just now saw the reply.
I am using pixia to just get the XY references, so I can place the gauges in the panel cfg

Rhys