Share the bitmap man.

Are you sure you want it? It's no where near accurate and the right side needle goes out side the window.(into the black space in the middle)

It's also got the issue of the white needles not being visible atop most of the white faces. I've made a version with the colors toned down but it doesn't look as good.

Hey, Toby, somewhere in the 3.0 tree, could you make the VU Meter visual draw a black line to the left of the white line for each needle? That way people could make more varied VU meter backgrounds that include white.

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Is that a white needle on a white background? Can you see it very well?

Once they are moving it looks fine.

If you invert the image you will get the white needles on black.

OK first of all for some reason I can't see the images on the revious posts so I don't know what your original replacement VU background looks like, and I'm just bored right now to hook up the empeg to upload the raw file and check them out, but when I saw the attacment on this post I had a _MAJOR_ deja vu to say the least.

Sometime ago (23/3/04 actually as the date modiffied of the attached file indicates) I found an Anna VU backgroud I think in Brad's site and liked it, so I used it but also started messing with it and ended up with what's in the attached file (it's a logo editor file).

Now, I don't remember if the numbers where there (I DO remember adding some characters to "something" as I used Rio Font Editor to replicate the font exactly but I'm really not sure if it was for this or something else) but appart from the "hole" I added at the bottom of it to make it more real like I'll be dammed if they are not quite the same!!! Go figure.

The funny thing is, if I _DID_ add those numbers to the version that is on my player since March, then I did it completly randomly, just from faint memory of the logarithmic scale on a real VU. I'm sure I didn't mess with the scale points though (that would be work and I was lazy I'm sure). So if by accident I made something that took Tony using a calculator and prolux's feedback, please do let me know so I can go play lotto tomorrow

Also I do remember that brad had 2 versions of the file, one with symetrical screws and one with not but can't find his site right now to verify.


P.S. My vote on how the visual should behave, is both (i.e. "Anna VU" and "Anna VU RMS")

Ah, yes. Now I remember.

I took the bg from the Logo Editor example files and then added the "hole" at the bottom. The one featured in Brads site was the original + the modification he made with the symetrical screws (that I didn't like much and didn't use - sorry Brad).

The characters I remember adding are in the attached file that's Fiat logo home and car images I made for my Uno then and Stilo now (and I might get round to making a nice boot logo someday since nobody in this board seems to have a Fiat - sheesh).

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Regarding the numbers, if they're the same as my original numbers, then they're just there to look good, not because I took a calculator or anything to it.

Yes they ARE exactly the same (in fact pixel by pixel the same), so I guess it's YOU that shoulg go play lotto So I guess the calculators went out for nothing, sometimes you must just go with luck

OT: Drakino, Any reason why dizar's post count doesn't seem to be working?

to be fixed one day when I get to it and the upgrade to beta 4. Odd glitch from the merge.

I didn't make any of the AnnuVu logos. I think that one was posted in a thread somewhere and I pulled it. The only stuff I did on that site was some of the Escher images and the "Digital empeg" animation (in MS Paint!!) I used to do a boatload of static logos too, but I don't think they got posted except on RioCar.org.

I was not satisfied with my most recent version of the Anna vu background and decided to do some tweaking.
Some improvements include easier to read numbers, better contrast for the white needles and improved bars.

Here are some screen shots of both normal and negatives.

Copy this image to your clipboard.

Open tfabris's Logo Editor
Click on File>Grab Anna Vu and Tux Much from player (FTP)
Click on Edit>Paste Home
(*optional step) Click on Image>Negative Image Home
Click on File>Send Anna Vu and Tux Much to player (FTP)
Done

* For better contrast against the white needle.

Copy this image to your clipboard.

Open tfabris's Logo Editor
Click on File>Grab Anna Vu and Tux Much from player (FTP)
Click on Edit>Paste Home
(*optional step) Click on Image>Negative Image Home
Click on File>Send Anna Vu and Tux Much to player (FTP)
Done

* For better contrast against the white needle.

Copy this image to your clipboard.

Open tfabris's Logo Editor
Click on File>Grab Anna Vu and Tux Much from player (FTP)
Click on Edit>Paste Home
(*optional step) Click on Image>Negative Image Home
Click on File>Send Anna Vu and Tux Much to player (FTP)
Done

* For better contrast against the white needle.

Way to go man!

When you getting that site up?

Thanks.

Animation requests are slow right now so I guess now is a good time as any to work on the site.

A few tweeks..



For some reason, I can't get my image to preview..

(admin edit, you need to click the attachment and get the actual URL of the picture, not the attachments.php handler)

Sweet!
I like it. I'll have to try it out.

Thanks Drakino!