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Postby Bumkin » Thu May 03, 2012 4:23 pm

Is there a way to cause a square gauge to display as circular by editing the panel.cfg line for that gauge?
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Re: Gauge Shape

Postby dave3cu » Thu May 03, 2012 5:38 pm

No way in the panel.cfg.  You need to edit the gauge's bmp and make those areas you want to 'hide' transparent (0,0,0 black).

If it's an .xml gauge, usually contained in a gauge .cab file, it's quite easy.

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Re: Gauge Shape

Postby Bumkin » Fri May 04, 2012 10:00 am

Thanks for the reply.  Am I correct that the process would to be open the radar bmp file in dxtbmp and send it to the editor much in the same way a texture is edited?
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Re: Gauge Shape

Postby dave3cu » Fri May 04, 2012 1:05 pm

Yes, editing
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Re: Gauge Shape

Postby Bumkin » Fri May 04, 2012 2:21 pm

I am not at all familiar with packaging xml gauges and it sounds as though I may have gotten into something larger than my capabilities.
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Re: Gauge Shape

Postby Webb » Tue May 22, 2012 5:52 pm

This gauge may work.
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Re: Gauge Shape

Postby Bumkin » Wed May 23, 2012 4:02 pm

Thanks, I've downloaded & will give it a try - Go Gators (I couldn't resist)
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Re: Gauge Shape

Postby Webb » Wed May 23, 2012 7:30 pm

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