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2D All the way! / Making sprites with transparecy help please.

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Zen_Budha
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Posted: 19th Oct 2003 19:15
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Hi all basically I have MS Paint and GIMP. I've been trying to make a 2D sprite with transparency, but can't get it as a .bmp as the GIMP says .bmp can't handle transparency.

I can tell it to ignor, but that usually doesn't work out well. IS there another format for sprites I can use such as .tga or .gif maybe?

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ReD_eYe
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Posted: 19th Oct 2003 22:55
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.tga and .png support transparency i think, also play around with set sprite alpha if you have dbpro, or set image colorkey.
areas that are black are transparent aswell.


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IanM
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Posted: 20th Oct 2003 02:16
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By default, black areas of BMP images are automatically transparent. You can change the transparent colour by using SET IMAGE COLORKEY as red_eye almost but not quite said
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Zen_Budha
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Posted: 20th Oct 2003 06:04
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Ok so black os automatically transparent. I guess that means anything I want to stay black should actually be like rgb 15, 15, 15 instead of 0, 0, 0
Of course I don't know why they didn't put something explaining that in the 2D basic commands part.

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the_winch
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Posted: 20th Oct 2003 06:18
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If you have dbpro just use the gimp to set the transparacy in a png file. Dbpro will use this transpancy when it loads the image. Image sizes will also be smaller compared to bmp.
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