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2D All the way! / Transparency Settings of an Image

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Cian Rice
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Okay, I am getting really pissed. I have made a hud in PSP 8, I saved as .PSP image. I exported it as .PNG with alpha channel setting to make anything white transparent. I load into DBPro, it\'s got a white backgrond. When I use the paste image command I do:
with the flag for transparency, still there\'s a white background. Then I try to use the set image colorkey command, but still there is a white background, does anyone know what exactly is wrong? It makes the game look ugly with the white background and I really like the hud I\'ve made, yet no matter what my image won\'t have a transparent background.
I even tried to use .GIF instead but same result. Does this mean I will have to use .BMP?

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Cian Rice
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Can no one help me? I know I need to give the post some time, but I have been hacing this problem for a long time.

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the_winch
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Try following the instructions in this post.
http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=27583&b=4

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Cian Rice
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Thanks, I'll take a look.

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Cian Rice
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Just looked at it, does that mean instead of pasting the image I could sprite it, but still have it be a hud?

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the_winch
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Posted: 1st Oct 2004 21:34
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Both sprites and paste image with the transparancy flag will work.

Just noticed an error with your code. The transparancy flag for paste image should either be 0 for no transparancy or 1 for transparancy.
Try.
paste image 8,1,380,1

Ignore the bit in the help that says "all coloured pixels of RGB(0,0,0) are not drawn", it is wrong.

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Cian Rice
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Oh, thanks. The reason I had the RGB was because somewhere, not on this boards someone set that I was supposed to define what color should be transparent.

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gothboy 101
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i tried that but my image still didn't turn transparent

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Cian Rice
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Oh. your probably experiancing the same problem as I am, I think it's cuz I need to set it to existing layers' transparency and your image was only a background layer.

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Cellbloc Studios
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AB:

http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=40105&b=1

I asked the SAME question about a week ago or so.

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Cian Rice
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Thanks for trying to help Cellbloc but I've dealt with it, but now a question can I ghost images, because to indicate combos in part of my RPG I need my 3 images to turn translucent so you can tell that it's time to continue the combo.

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Cellbloc Studios
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May I ask what you did you fix it in Photoshop? I had to download PSP to get it to work and I thought that was silly to do since I have Photoshop.

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gothboy 101
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my problem is the white of the image still shows

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Posted: 3rd Oct 2004 04:48 Edited at: 3rd Oct 2004 04:49
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Quote: "Thanks for trying to help Cellbloc but I've dealt with it, but now a question can I ghost images, because to indicate combos in part of my RPG I need my 3 images to turn translucent so you can tell that it's time to continue the combo."


If you change from PASTE IMAGE to using sprites then it's easy. Just use SPRITE ALPHA to change the translucency of the sprite.

If you stick with images it is more difficult. One way would be to use an image memblock and change the alpha value of each pixel. Another way would be to make a series of images with different tranparancy levels.

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Cian Rice
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Thanks so how do I make my image into sprite, I'm not really one to know these 2D commands. And gothboy can you post the image code and if so can you email me the image with multiple layers, one being transparent? I think I can help you then.

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This will make a sprite and position it onscreen

sprite SpriteNum, xcoord, ycoord, ImageNum
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