I have Googled and searched this forum till my fingers have bled and still can not find an answer.

In the documentation (Wiki) it states:

“dialNeedleLength= – the length of the meter needle, if not using a bitmap ”
dialNeedleOffset= – If using a bitmap for the needle, this controls the pivot offset

Therefore, one can surmise that you CAN use a bitmap. I have looked at hundreds of themes as well as read every bit of documentation on Torque Pro (Which there is not a lot) and can not find out how to use a bitmap for a needle.

To use a BMP one would need at least the naming convention, and what format either BMP with pink representing the transparency, or an alpha layer .png.

Here is a screen cap of my current layout:

Cappp; Thank you, a little late for sure, but thank you. I did finally get a chance to play around with it and got it to work. I was able o make a triangular needle.

Now, I just have to figure out what to name the graphics that do not have PID’s In the above image the top center gauge is goind to be a fuel gauge. I want to remove the text, and use custom text as I did on the RPM’s and the Speedo.

To remove the tickmarks, in the profile it is simple:
hideTicks_0c=true

I used a hack to remove the text, by putting the text outside of the dial area so it is not visible.
textRadius_0c=3.1

Those were both done with the PID’s. The “Fuel Remaining” is calculated by torque, and does not have a PID. I tried using its displayed name “Fuel Rem” to no avvail.

Any idea on this one?