Digital Tach

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  1. Bill Malicoat

    Bill Malicoat Registered

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    Anyone having an issue with them?

    I have my analog water temp working and the analog Oil pressure working. But the digital tach does not show up in game at all, the the background. I have tried a few things with no luck.

    I am using the ALMS font from the Megane mas file, I renamed it and I have my tach background set to a tga file.

    Code:
    RPMFont=bozfont.bmp			// defaults to FTIM24HUD (hey, why not?)
    RPMBackground=tachbkg.tga			// defaults to LCD00.BMP
    RPMScale=(.4, 0.4)			// how big to draw the font onto the background
    that is in my cockpit.ini file

    I have tried a few different scales as well.
     
  2. Tamas Pongracz

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    Your cockpitinfo file looks good, so maybe something wrong in the max. You tick the "Render Target" checkbox? Or maybe you not mapped the tach background. Sorry i've no more idea.
     
  3. Bill Malicoat

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    render target is checked. I remapped the tach background to be sure as well, that seems good too.
     
  4. Bill Malicoat

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    Still no luck, anyone have theirs working okay?

    guages.jpg
     
  5. Devin

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    I converted a working rf1 mod and it works fine...
     
  6. Bill Malicoat

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    I will double check everything. It is the same code and textures from RF1, but a new gauge. The analog ones worked, just the Tach does not want to work for some reason.
     
  7. mianiak

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    Digitach has to be set up with 32 materials numbered in order, the cockpitinfo.ini needs to have the preface RPMLED=. ie, if the preface is, RPMLED=digitach, then each material will be digitach00, digitach01 etc etc. each material is a duplicate of each other with the name being the only difference.

    That entry your showing in your screenshot is for analogue tach.

    Here is a good tutorial for digitach, its for rf1 but the same rules apply for rf2.
    http://www.thepits.us/board/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=4463&start=0
     
  8. Bill Malicoat

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    I am not wanting RPM LED's I want a digital tachometer. 91082030_R.jpg
     
  9. mianiak

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    Ahh ok, my bad.
    But now you say this, it rings a bell with something I was struggling with (tacho on the steering wheel). Is that unit a separate object to the other gauges? If so, just for an experiment, can you attach that object to the other gauges object and try see if it works?
     
  10. Tamas Pongracz

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    You tried without move and omni options?
     
  11. Bill Malicoat

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    I had it as part of the gauge cluster gmt before, tried it with it being its own gmt as well. I must just have an error somewhere, I will keep looking for it.
     
  12. Tim Bennett

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    Definately something missing here, i tried the same with the same tach in multiple variations and mine won't work either. Is there something in the export part of it that needs checked possibly?
     

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