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Compass tape not showing SOLVED

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Robert Benoit

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SOLVED: 24bit BMP mask file using 1,1,1 as fill colour.

Hi,

My first time trying to make a tape shift. Any idea why the compass remains a black box with only the white line in the center?

Code: 
<Gauge Name="Compass" Version="1.0">
  <Image Name="Compassbackground.bmp"/>

  <!-- Size = 102 x 42, black BMP -->

  <Element>
    <Position X="1" Y="1"/>
    <Image Name="CompassStrip.bmp">

    <!-- Size = 520 x 40, white text on black BMP -->

      <Nonlinearity>
        <Item Value="0" X="440" Y="0"/>
        <Item Value="359" X="81" Y="0"/>
      </Nonlinearity>
    </Image>
    <MaskImage Name="CompassWindow.bmp">

    <!-- Size = 100 x 40, black BMP -->

     <Axis X="50" Y="0"/>
    </MaskImage>
    <Shift>
      <Value>(L:KK_Compass,number)</Value>
    </Shift>
  </Element>

  <Element>
    <Position X="50" Y="0"/>
    <Image Name="CompassLine.bmp">

    <!-- Size = 2 x 40, white BMP -->

    </Image>
  </Element>
</Gauge>



LUA displays 58 degrees onscreen (taken from offset x2B00 and rounded), this matches the existing compass reading.

Robert


P.S.: The size lines were added as comments to help here, they are not part of my source.
 
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Hum, I had seen that requirement on AVSIM and had filled the mask with 1,1,1 using Paint, but it didn't hold.

I just tried using PSP XI and same thing, can't select 1,1,1.

I'm not doing something right with the paint programs apparently. Maybe the wrong type of BMP file?


EDIT: Paint saves it as a 256 colour BMP, is that right? I keep trying to add 1,1,1 to custom colours but it's not holding when I fill the window. It remains 0,0,0.
 
AlanWingnut said:
That's the problem. 256 color won't allow 1,1,1
You need to get Paint to save it as 24 bit bitmap.
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Uh... that's not right. Gauges don't use 24-bit bitmaps.

I think the actual problem is Paint. I don't know if anyone uses it to make images for FS.
 
What? I use 24 bit textures in gauges all the time. Never caused a problem.
 
Ed's stuck with 8bit textures for C/C++ type gauges. XML "gauge scripts" will gleefully take either 8bit, 24bit or even 32bit (RGBA) bitmaps. :wave:
 
I suspect your 24bit imagery is being converted on-the-fly by the sim. A quick test of the memory of any given bitmap load by the panel system shows me that they're all running in 8-bit format.
 
D'oh, I'm an idiot.

I clicked Like on your post, forgot I did, then read "You like this" below your post and thought it was your sig.

That was one of the in-game taunts in Unreal Tournament. :)
 
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