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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Yet Another DBPro Problem!! (Sigh!)

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ConsoleBoy164
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Posted: 8th Jun 2003 02:09
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Here I am again. This time its a 2D thing. At the bottom of my screen there is two waer images, scrolling to give the effect that your moving horizontally accross the screen (yeah, this is just basic, but its already caused havoc). There is also a Mouse cursor sprite. The mousesprite is loaded, but looks like someones taken the spray tol in paint andsprayed on it with black (it looks fragmented now!) however the image is fine in paint?? also, one of my water images is coming up with like a dashed black line along the top and bottom of the image. Trouble is, i want these things sorted before I can continue. Changing the look of the image doesnt help, restarting the pc didnt help and well frankly im stumped!
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the_winch
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Posted: 8th Jun 2003 02:47
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Are you adding the extra ,1 to the end of the load image command to stop dbpro filtering the image?

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andrew11
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Posted: 8th Jun 2003 02:56
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Maybe it is a problem with sprite transparency. When you load a sprite, it is automatically made transparent. Try using this before you load the image:



Where r,g,b are red,green,blue color values not in the image.
If the transparent part of your sprite is the same color as other pixels in the sprite, change some colors by a few rgb values. YOu could also try using set sprite to take away the transparency.

If that dosen't work, as the_winch said, add a ,1 to the end of the load image command.

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ConsoleBoy164
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Posted: 8th Jun 2003 23:28
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I was using image command (with one on end) also tried sprites, maybe i should try your suggestions but the images are speccly. bu two out of the five sprites on screen are okay. however each sprite has the same settings? so why are 3 of the sprites affected and two are fine?

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ConsoleBoy164
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Posted: 9th Jun 2003 00:26 Edited at: 9th Jun 2003 00:26
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I tried set sprite - didn't work
I tried set image colorkey - no luck
I tried it in DarkBASIC 1.13 (DBC) - worked 100% perfectly!!!!!!!

This evidence tells me one of two things:
DBpro Is still quite buggy,
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Or my graphics settings are either wrong or something along these lines!

Also, im using cls RGB(0,0,40) to create a dark blue background color, and DBpro wont do that either???????????

I am seriously wondering why DBPro Is causing probs but DBC isn't??


Im also using latest patch for DBPro!!

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Nilrem
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Posted: 9th Jun 2003 00:32
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Can you post your code please so we can have a look?

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ConsoleBoy164
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Posted: 9th Jun 2003 00:39
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Okay, youll need some images for some testing
The mouse is 20x20. the two other images are 640x20



This code works perfectly in DBC so im out of ideas!!

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Nilrem
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Posted: 9th Jun 2003 00:47
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Couldn't upload the images for me could you? If you have nowhere to upload them, then email me them at [email protected] or [email protected] if they exceed hotmails 1024k (1MB) limit, and I will upload them for you for others to view/test.

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ConsoleBoy164
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Posted: 9th Jun 2003 01:09 Edited at: 9th Jun 2003 01:09
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Heres the whole lot (all project files, folders the whole shebang!) load the dbpro project into dbpro and it will show my probs
also try the dba file in DBC (f u have it!)to see my true problems!
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www.geocities.com/consoleboy164/BomberPro.zip
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NOTE: Youll need winzip!! But anyone with the internet hould have a method of extracting zip files!!

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ConsoleBoy164
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WooHoo - I found the problem (phewwww!!!) It turns out to be a color depth problem with dbpro. the program is set for 640x480 exlusive 16 bit mode. the images are 24-bit. This produced my scrambled images (for some reason??) however in dbc is fine. Change mode to 640x480xTruecolour exclusive and it works fine now. Just working on GFX Now - Game should be ready in month or so . Its maybe a thing for rich to include in the next patch??

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spooky
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I too think there is a problem with 16bit mode. Since Patch 4 or 4.1 I cannot texture large objects anymore without them looking naff. Running in 24/32 bit mode and no problem at all.

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ConsoleBoy164
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Posted: 9th Jun 2003 02:15
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Still, there is a dark line at top of img, but i think thats just my crap image placement, ive decided to restart the project, mainly ecause my art is crap and Ive anaged to totally confuse myelf, but hey - Least it will look better now!

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CloseToPerfect
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Posted: 9th Jun 2003 03:54 Edited at: 9th Jun 2003 03:55
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Something is wrong now with 16 bit mode, I don't know why it was working fine before. Alot of people have complained about it. And, DBpro is still has way to many bugs, shame it's not open souce maybe some of the more creative users could build some patches for it.
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