Gauge design, etc.

[nickpoore]

Questions for Randy, etc.

I've added a ton of gauges here.
Does this slow down the rendering process by any perceptable value?

EG.
Instead of just displaying the gear, I've displayed the gear 5 times, just to create an outline. This seems inefficient, but I'm not sure what difference it makes in the big picture.


The animated bar gauges allow you to display two different colors.
It would be nice if there were an "inactive" color also, so we could set a background color without having to draw two boxes.
I'm sure that this is true of several of the gauge options.

[RandallNoll]

Nick,

I'll let Mark and Rolf comment on the rendering speed. I haven't noticed a huge difference myself.

The "inactive" color would be a nice feature. Until something like this is implemented, another way to do this would be to clone your animated bar, set it to the background color, and set the min/max both to zero. The bar will then be full the entire time. I did this to achieve vertical shading across the animated bars in some of the new gauges.

Hope this helps!