Hi Everyone, Can someone please explain what I need to do in order to create a Needle animation and also a Digit display (Heading). A while ago I seem to remember Matthew mentioning FLASH. Could someone please confirm this or point me to a tutorial.Many Thanks for any infoJohn

There is a reference guide to all standard gauge types (including various needle gauges and digital readout gauges) available at FlyDevelopers.com. Just follow-up here with whatever questions you have after browsing the relevant parts.Chris WallaceOttawa, Canada

Hi Chris,Thanks for the info. I've had a look on Fly Developers website but can't seem to find anything on needles or gauges. Any ideas??Regards John

John,I always create needles with 3d Studio it's very handy one's you have animated in 360 degrees just let it render in 360 bitmap's. Very easy ;)about the didgets you can make your own if you like! the minimum of alowable height is 5 pixesl and use a length of 3 pixels otherwise you can't read out the numbers!Take care,

Hi Jarno, Thanks for that, being a Mac guy I don't run 3D Studio, however I think Flash can do the same animation for the Needles, but I'm unsure of what format I have to save them in to place them in Fly??Regards John

All of the needle animations are in PBG format, a proprietary image format for Fly! It's generally simplest if you create a 360-frame animation, one image for each degree of needle rotation. While animation applications like 3DStudio make it easier, you can use any graphics program you like to create a "stacked" bitmap image, where all of the animation frames are stacked up vertically into one big (tall) image, then saved as 256-colour BMP. The tools BMP2RAW and RAW2PBM will convert this to PBG format which can be specified as the image in a object as described in the Gauge Reference.Chris WallaceOttawa, Canada

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