SUBSIM Radio Room Forums - TEC: making menu items change color at night

I've been finishing up a new version of my Better Scopes mod and ran into some trouble at the end - nothing absolutely essential but it would be very nice to have. Here's a picture of what i've got so far:

http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/7...copes14av7.jpg

As you can see the lines are all nicely lit up at night ;) only problem is they don't return to normal as the sun comes up...

I've basically removed the lines from the main periscope image (bettercopes_attack.dds) completely and made a new one containing only the lines. Here's what i've added to the menu.ini under [G26 I147]:

Code:

  Name=Lines

  Type=1030;Static bmp

  ItemID=0x26000005

  ParentID=0x26000004

  Pos=0,0,1024,768

  Zone= 0 768 1024 768 0 1 0x26000000 0.5 -0.5 0x26000005 -0.5 0.5 0 0

  Color=0x66B26680

  Materials=1

  Display=0;No stretch

  Mat 0=data/menu/gui/betterscopes_attack_lines.tga

  Crop 0=0,0.125,1,0.75

  MatFlags=0x1

  TexFmt=0x0

This is basically a mix of [G26 I134] (the actual bearing indicator; to get that "lit-up-at-night effect") and [G26 I137] to get the dimensions right.

for testing purposes i changed the ItemID to 0x26000004 (the bearing indicator) and the color change worked perfectly... unfortunately so did everything else: the static lines behaved just like the bearing indicator would and were not static anymore. of course, because the ItemID was already used, the compass wasn't working anymore, either.

any ideas? suggestions?