Speedo in KM/h?

[winno]

Don't worry too much about testing or adding the textures, I can understand we're all busy at some time. Besides, this is something all of us do in our spare time.

Anyway, back to the issue of higher speeds. I thought about it, and I originally wanted to add a bit more range, particularly to the inner gauge. However, the digital readout is in the way. It wouldn't look good if the readout and the gauges are mashed together.

A possible solution is to change the needle deflection so that it turns less per unit of speed. Currently, we have 12 degrees per 10 km/h, or 19.3 degrees per 10 mph. Halving this would mean a maximum range of 440 km/h or 280 mph.

This brings me to your idea of having custom gauges. Having defaults and presets would be a good idea. TORCS does a similar sort of thing, but with only one gauge per car.

Here's my own thoughts on the extra settings/data we'd need for each car:
-use default, preset, custom or no gauge
-needle texture at 0 speed (like it is now)
-km/h and mph gauge textures
-deflection per unit of speed (individual)
-possibly a "suppressed zero" value, typically 10 km/h or 5 mph
-optionally, vertical/horizontal displacement of gauge positioning on screen
-same as above for tachometer, and maybe fuel gauge.

I had the option of no gauge so a car with no analogue speedometer in real life could have no speedometer gauge, but I would not omit the tachometer if it didn't have one. The Toyota Yaris is one example.