nialloftara wrote:That's actually quite clever, is there a chance you could scale down the existing kph and fit it inside this image to make a more traditional speedo look?
07CobaltGirl wrote:You mean like a speedometer with both kmh and mph? I would like that as well!
nialloftara wrote:That's what I meant yeah, like take the stock speedo and scale down the image so the spacing stays the same and pastes it inside the numbers of the MPH image.
For that I'd really like to just remake the entire gauge, but I'm pretty slow with image editing and not super talented at it.
Here's a quick version with just scaling down the old gauge though (sans the border and the middle markings, and the shadows/background blended in), let me know what you think. (the .dds is in the attached zip as well, just rename to KPHGauge480.dds and install it like the first one)
If it's usable to you guys I'll see if I can find some time soon to make a few other gauges, so there'd be the following options: original KPH with cleaned up text/markings, MPH, MPH with inner KPH, and KPH with inner MPH.
Really though there's only so much that can be done with modifying the current textures. I'd really like something like this:
where "0" isn't 180° down. This can't be done just with textures, it'd take code modifications etc which obviously only the Automation devs have access to. Other cool ideas: tach and speedometer would scale to the car being tested, e.x. a car with a rev limiter of 7500RPM would have the tach scale from 0 to 8000RPM with markings above 7500RPM colored orange, and a car with a top speed of 140MPH would have the speedometer scale from 0 to 160MPH (with the units, KPH/MPH or MPH/KPH, changed based on user preference). Better yet, when a car is equipped with "Premium Infotainment" or something, make the speedometer digital!
(a trip meter of sorts measuring how far around the track the car is would be cool too)
PS: Yes, I took a picture of my odometer while driving. My phone was sitting up by the gauges for GPS anyway, although I will concede that it's one of the dumber things I've done while driving. I do not text or talk on the phone when driving and I never have. I now have a windshield mount for it that places it out of my reach too!