Custom Dashboards

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Requirements:
- understand blender or any other 3d modeling program
- be able to convert between .mesh.xml and .mesh

download the archive, it contains all files you will need: Dashtest.zip
create a normal 3d model of what it should look like. In this example i chose this:
then texture it like normal and get it to work ingame with the texture first.
when this is working, add two simple faces (two triangles) to the mesh, that form a plane:
- the material of this two faces should be 'renderdash'
- the texture coordinates must fit! The dashboard is rendered at the following position:
- Use the following image to line up the individual gauges in the cluster:
- The faces should form a submesh in your model like this: (attention to the correct texcoords!) (or use others, to use parts of the dashboard)

		<submesh material="renderdash" usesharedvertices="false">
			<faces count="2">
				<face v1="0" v2="1" v3="3"/>
				<face v1="1" v2="2" v3="3"/>
			</faces>
			<geometry vertexcount="4">
				<vertexbuffer positions="true" normals="true" texture_coords="1" texture_coord_dimensions_0="2">
					<vertex>
						<position x="-0.174131" y="-0.002985" z="0.007485"/>
						<normal x="0.000000" y="-1.000000" z="-0.000000"/>
						<texcoord u="0.000000" v="0.500000"/>
					</vertex>
					<vertex>
						<position x="-0.174131" y="-0.002985" z="-0.186658"/>
						<normal x="0.000000" y="-1.000000" z="-0.000000"/>
						<texcoord u="0.000000" v="1.000000"/>
					</vertex>
					<vertex>
						<position x="0.174131" y="-0.002985" z="-0.186658"/>
						<normal x="0.000000" y="-1.000000" z="-0.000000"/>
						<texcoord u="0.500000" v="1.000000"/>
					</vertex>
					<vertex>
						<position x="0.174131" y="-0.002985" z="0.007485"/>
						<normal x="0.000000" y="-1.000000" z="-0.000000"/>
						<texcoord u="0.500000" v="0.500000"/>
					</vertex>
				</vertexbuffer>
			</geometry>
		</submesh>