# Animate Fill Level On Irregular Shaped Component

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/animate-fill-level-on-irregular-shaped-component/15740>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** vision\
**Created:** [October 21, 2017, 4:24pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/animate-fill-level-on-irregular-shaped-component/15740 "2017-10-21T16:24:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2017, 7:08pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/animate-fill-level-on-irregular-shaped-component/15740/2 "2017-10-21T19:08:20Z")

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The quick and dirty solution would be to place background-colored, borderless empty objects in front of the level indicator to obscure it where the irregular steps are. The precision solution would be to draw exactly what you need with the paintable canvas.

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