[Guide] How to create on-board computer mod.

[galimim]

A question for resident dash computer expert @piva: Is it possible to create a dashboard computer with no(transparent) background?
With how complex the new truck displays are, I wanna have just an overlay of the information needed without any background. Is that possible?

[Etrusan]

As far as I can tell, no. I tried many ways but always failed.

[galimim]

Crap, I was afraid so -.- I do wonder how SCS will create the new computers given that they are really complex now.

[xXCARL1992Xx]

what do you mean with "no backround", just a transparent image that is loaded for a plain color or no image loaded at all ?

[galimim]

No image at all. Like the whole background was just an alpha channel.

[piva]

Is it possible to create a dashboard computer with no(transparent) background?

You can see how make computers Oscar for latest trucks like Mack, WS, Cascadia.
You can set background color for id:10/20 and not add any background image. Or you can set one background image for id:20 or shared display (id:950) Or you can add background image for each virtual displays (id:100-800), but do not forget about "layers" and your image must have lower number than you information and icons.

[galimim]

Thanks, I have figured it out using background image for the shared display.

[Addicted]

I have this clock but its not really in center of the dash but one thing i dont understand if i modify the coords_l should i also modify the coords_r? this is a lil wierd and i dont understand how this works because its not like axis with XYZ i would be much easier and another thing is how do you know where they will appear because its kinda frustrating to open the game 1000 times
btw the same thing with the coords_t and coords_b how do i know what values they should have to be more up or down

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ui::text_common : .clock {
 value: "12:24"
 look_template: example.clock
 text: ""
 coords_l: 730
 coords_r: 880
 coords_t: 1090
 coords_b: 1043
 id: 1050
 layer: 1
 my_parent: .share.display

[Soundwave2142]

How do I increase space between characters in custom font? I tried giving them bigger width number in .font and more space in image but they still glued together. Any help?

[Smarty]

You'll want to increase the advance (A) in the font definition, which controls how many pixels the cursor moves for the next character. That, or you could increase the character spacing within the UI markup. I forget the exact markup, but I think there's some spacing parameter for the <font> tag.