make your own gauges?

[chessboxer]

http://www3.sympatico.ca/rickdupuis/Pictures/SUNSET/Gauges/how_to_create_custom_gauges.htm

does anyone understand this any better than myself?

[xScott]

Ricey, but clever.

[chessboxer]

heres a fake install, any input?

[phonts69]

riiicceee... um, i mean, niiicee!:D

[phatdoughnut]

And that looks kinda ***.... also i am kinda drunk right now.. one to many margaritas on val day by my self...:(

[chessboxer]

i dont know that i would use that pic, its just for reference, but do yuo think it has potential?

[phatdoughnut]

doubt it... sorry chessy :idiots:

[phonts69]

maybe if you printed on some transparent plastic, the ones for overhead projectors at school. and leave the ones to be lighted transparent. maybe... has potential

[accordztech]

Originally posted by phonts69
maybe if you printed on some transparent plastic, the ones for overhead projectors at school. and leave the ones to be lighted transparent. maybe... has potential

nice idea. put gray text or something and put it over your guages. put "www.cb7tuner.com" hahah.

i dont like the clouds though. it looks neat but overwhelming. maybe u can make a fake carbon fiber design. haha.

[Trites]

a friend of mine made his own guages for his teg...they came out looking like factory white face guages...but he's a perfectionist. i don't think the white guages look bad as long as you dont make them with crayons or something hehehe

[chessboxer]

any ideas for a good pic to use? im gonna try and do the carbon fiber tonight, if i have time. shouldnt be too hard.

[91accord4door]

it would look godd but stay away from the cheezyness,do something subtle but very nice.let us see what ya come up with.

[chessboxer]

eh?
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid103/p166dc9010b3c72abcafdf8104e5dabd8/f99d1417.jpg
or
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid103/p0437b1617c4d4343b020d9ecbaa70d06/f99d0e36.jpg

[chessboxer]

how bout this one?

[cp[mike]]

i like that last one u posted... maybe lighten the blue a little bit.

[chessboxer]

hows this plain white face?
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid105/p4a62a5900acfb54767c3aa9cdbf2bd0e/f9812ebe.jpg

[cp[mike]]

im not a fan of white face gauges in general, but i really like the coloring of the last one you posted. you would need to change it to 130mph tho, but i kinda like it.

[chessboxer]

do you have any suggestions for a new background color? i can do any you like, or at least think would look good.
and heres the rest of the set
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid105/p7901dc3cb27004cfbf1837bf7e33f540/f98124d7.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid105/pd5f6af554ee4a908142436272b72f73e/f98124d8.jpg

[cp[mike]]

i personally would do this... kinda like reverse indiglows, but with a black face. would be a unique touch.

actually, i tried making my own kinda custom gauges the other day. i wanted the numbers to be the same, just the black face to be kind of a gradient, with black at the top, and a dark grey at the bottom... very subtle. never got it to work, i was using a transparency overlay.. it never dried, and never looked right. oh well, i shoudl follow this DIY sometime. are you goign to be doing it soon? take pics if you do!!

[akkordlayinkit]

Very very nice mike....too bad it work. Chess you better take pics when you do it, I wanna see how they'll turn out.

Jay

[chessboxer]

i will do it sometime soon, and i didnt exactly follow this guys guide. I bought some gauges that didnt work and all so i just scanned them and starting playing with them in photoshop. if anyone has any ideas ill try and see what i can do, im no expert here, but i do what i can.

[cp[mike]]

Originally posted by chessboxer
if anyone has any ideas ill try and see what i can do, im no expert here, but i do what i can.
i think my post was unclear... the pic i posted is what i think YOU should do, not what i tried :)

[cp[mike]]

hey chessboxer, i have a copy of that fullsize scan of the white face gauges that u posted a while ago.... but the quality of the JPEG is pretty low, and it has lots of ghosting and blurs... do u have a full-resolution copy that you could send me, maybe a bitmap?

[chessboxer]

yeah, i got one on my girls computer, ill send it to you in a couple of days, but its huge really. its about 700k i think, but i will send it good sir. and i mean they are about 700k a piece and not together.

[cp[mike]]

thats cool, thanks man :D send me an email or get me on aim sometime, cpm1xe

[Fsurider]

Hey Chessboxer, would you mind sending me those hi rez scans of the white face gauges that you mentioned? I'd really like to try this out and I'd appreciate it. My email is fsurider@hotmail.com Thanks:D

[cp[mike]]

he sent them to me a little while ago, so i stuck them up on my server... that ok chessboxer?

http://mike.adminity.net/cb7_white_gauges.zip

[chessboxer]

what the hell man? i gave those to you for you to use, not the whole world dammit.
syke biatch.
i dont care and im glad you did it, if this making your own gauges thing catches on, i just want to be remembered as the guy who kinda sorta saw the idea somewhere else for another car and then started it all.
word to ya motha.

[cp[mike]]

ill be sure to add a little information txt file inside the zip, in case it gets spread around :)

[chessboxer]

word, and you first hosted it, so put mike and mike in there, and that will give us our recognition. of course, everyone will know that the first mike in mike and mike will signify me.