Halelen

long story short you have to expand the items because the way the program treats them. someone with a lot more smarts then me figured it out and came up with the calculations, all I know is that it works and the basics of why. Basically the way he explained it to me is take your guage size and multiply by 100 just for ease of math. because the program compresses the graphics and it will look correct if using this method. the offsets is because otherwise each layer would cover the other layer. ok looking back over my notes i can explain this a little better. you ar e overlaying colors over each other. now you have two parts for each color, one part slowly counts down from say 100% to 80 % the second part is static and covers everything from 0 to 80. you want that color to go away at 80 and change to the next so that segment is actually only 1 % but you have to multiply it so that it covers 80% and the offset so that the entire bar disappears at that time.