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Zaibatsu
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Posted: 9th Jul 2006 03:03 Edited at: 9th Jul 2006 08:43
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could someone please tell me how to have an enemy spawn when you get close to the spot they were placed at?

also, when i place small entities such as guns, keys and ammo, they are in a different place ingame, how do i fix this if i can?

thank yoiu in advance.


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EDIT: i made an attempt at making a decal ( i know texture sucks, but i wanted to see if i could do it before i went to the trouble), and i made a square with a black background and added stuff ontop of it. why is it that the black showed up, when true black is read as transparent? see atatched pic.

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Posted: 9th Jul 2006 03:04
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Found this someplace here in a post.
Ok, set the "Spawn At Start" setting to "No" on all of the enemies, place the trigger zone and give it an easy name like "Spawn enemies", then give each enemy the same name. In the "IfUsed" section of the trigger sone put the name of the enemies. Then chnage the Main .FPI for the triggersone to plrinzoneactivateifused.fpi, Then test it, when you walk into the trigger zone, your enemies will spawn out of nowhere.

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Posted: 9th Jul 2006 03:12
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OH. THANK YOU. i did everything in there except switch the fpi. no wonder it didn't work. i praise you. any answer to other question? anybody?

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Posted: 9th Jul 2006 08:44
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bumpong so people can see my lastest question. see edit in first post.

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Posted: 9th Jul 2006 09:33
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Show the editor and where you are adding the entities so I/we can see what it looks like.

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Posted: 9th Jul 2006 10:39
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The only surefire way to render black as transparent is by useing alpha channels. It's the most surefire way of getting it to work propperly.

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Posted: 9th Jul 2006 17:49
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and precicly how would i do that, pray tell? I have adobe photoshop 8 cs, an The Gimp. if you have a tutorial for either one of those, then please share.

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Posted: 9th Jul 2006 19:00
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I use paint shop pro and the tutorial pic for making translucent hud's. Im not familiar with Gimp or photoshop, but I'm sure they has at least similar features. I'll explain how I do it in PSP and maybe you can apply it to your own programs.
1.open pic in PSP making sure it's on a background that is rgb000.
2.right click pic in layer tabs, create new mask, from image.
3. when window pops up choose -any non zero source value-
4.On the top bar, Selections, from mask
5.Once again,On the top bar,Selections, then Save Selection to Alpha channel.
6.Erase or merge mask layer with pic layer.
7.save as .tga
Hope that helped.

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Posted: 9th Jul 2006 19:02
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i don't know how to "erase or merge" as you put it. any form of layer or alpha channelconfuses me. do you have a video tutorial?

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Posted: 9th Jul 2006 19:05 Edited at: 9th Jul 2006 19:06
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nope, I had a confuseing picture to work off of, but I'm sure someone with either Photoshop or gimp could shed a bit more light on the subject.
EDIT-the deleting or merging isn't a nessecary step

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