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  fuel bar and throttle for fighter jet.

  Posted by Jason Disbrow on July 10, 2007 at 10:49 pm

  How would you guys tackle this aside from brute key framing? I want to make a fuel gauge similar to what you’d see in a fighter jet. Basically the amount of fuel remaining in lbs and next to that a visual progress bar. So I’d want to start the fuel out at 1000lbs and have the progress bar filled up and when the number lowers I want the progress bar to decrease also.

  So far I’ve just used the numbers plug and keyframed the value/offset. for the progress bar I was just going to animate a mask shape.

  thanks

  Aharon Rabinowitz replied 19 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  David Bogie

  July 11, 2007 at 6:00 pm

  Easy using expressions and a slider control.

  You must spend a few hours exploring expressions in the manual.

  bogiesan

  This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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  Aharon Rabinowitz

  July 12, 2007 at 3:05 am

  if you chewck out the last 2 AE podcasts, it deals with creating an odometer – and while it;s not quite the same, it might help you in your task. Check it out.

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