the plugins

led

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with this plugin you can display a number or a certain time of day in a 7-segment led style

the plugin has three modes

1. counter
   this mode is to display a static number, a increasing or decreasing counter

2. hh:mm:ss
   this mode is to display a time of day with hours, minutes and seconds

3. hh:mm
   this mode is to display a time of day with hours and minutes

the parameter of the plugin:

• digits
  the number of digits to be rendered; if the value to display has more digits the leftmost digits are cut off;

• thickness
  the thickness of the segments 0 means thin segments, 2 thick segments;
  below you see two pictures with thickness 0 and 2:
  

• skew
  you can adjust the slope of a digit with this; value ranges from 0. to 0.5;
  a picture with a skew of 0.5:
  

• size
  this parameter is simply to scale the digits

• light / dark
  with this two parameter you can adjust the values of active and inactive segments; aspecially the dark value can be used to achieve a more realistic effect; let's have a look:
  

• value
  the value to display; the value that is finally displayed is calculated from this value, the delta described later and the frame number;
  if you have selected a time of day mode (hh:mm:ss or hh:mm) minutes and seconds values are mapped to a value range from 00 to 59 (for example a value of 12:59:63 will be mapped to 12:59:03)

• lzeros
  the number of leading zeros that will displayed a number of 8 means always display leading zeros up to the maximum of digits to display;

• 12/24
  this toggle button only has a meaning if you've selected a time of day mode;
  it toggles between a 12 hours and a 24 hours display;

• delta / invert
  this parameter is the most important if you want to create an animated display; it described the value that is added to the base value every frame; for example a value of 1. means that every frame a counter display is increased by 1 and a time of day display is increased by 1 second;
  note: that includes also the hh:mm mode;
  another, more realistic example: if you have 25 frames/sec and want to model a real world clock you have to specify a delta value of 1/25 wich means 0.04; to avoid such calculations you can toggle the invert button below the delta button; if you do so, you specify the number of frames needed to increase the display by 1 (seconds); in our example you have to adjust the delta value to 25 and of course push the invert button

• no aalias
  toggling this button prevents anti-aliasing even if specified in the render settings; useful only if you use colorbands

download

here you can get the C-source and a precompiled version for a linux i386 libc6 and a IRIX system as a gzipped-tar-file: