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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Set Object Transparency acting a wee bit weird!

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John H
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OK, lots of questions today - been doing lots of coding. I was getting some last minute stuff in before I went to bed. Im adding a picket fence to the game. Didnt want it high poly so I said "hey! Ill just use a plain!" That didnt work so well.

I set the image colorkey to 0,0,0, then set the transparency on (example below) But the weird part is, if there isnt an object BEHIND the object that has transparency, the object has a weird 'glow' around it.

Example pic:



See, when the bush is behind the object, no glow. But when it isnt,,weird huh?

Heres the texture (sry slow internet users - had to use BMP or it makes some of the black pixels not black)



And now for the code

[img]Make Object Plain 16,140,125
Set Object Transparency 16,1
Texture Object 16,24
Position Object 16,2072,70,3655[/img]

Any help here? A bug maybe?

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Akira Tsunami
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Posted: 13th Oct 2003 07:23
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i know from my SVGA programing days,that for 16 Bit+
that ur mask should be RGB(266,0,128)

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fear not the solution is below.

the white haze is caused by lights...solution:
set object light 16,0

you might also try
ghost object on 16,0
or
ghost object on 16,1 (cant remember which)

hope this helps

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John H
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Posted: 13th Oct 2003 07:37 Edited at: 13th Oct 2003 07:42
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Nothin is working

The 255,0,128 doesnt do anything.

The light commands dont do anything. If I ghost the object, the parts of the object that dont have an object behind them completely dissapear.

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Posted: 13th Oct 2003 07:52 Edited at: 13th Oct 2003 18:36
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Here u are Mate

I didnt do much,maybe u just need to update

Make Matrix 1,1000,1000,25,25
Load image "slime_001.jpg",44
Prepare matrix texture 1,44,1,1
Make Object Plain 16,140,125
Set Object Transparency 16,1
Load image "Untitled.bmp",24
Texture Object 16,24
`Position Object 16,2072,70,3655

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John H
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Posted: 13th Oct 2003 07:57
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Looks like I gotta update.

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Posted: 13th Oct 2003 08:20
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Make Object Plain 16,140,125
Set Object Transparency 16,1
Load Image "media\textures\PicketFence_Vines3.bmp",24
Texture Object 16,24
Position Object 16,2072,70,3655

Still not working

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Bump

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Posted: 13th Oct 2003 18:03
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had some probs to, then i decided to make .png files with transparent backgrounds, that works fine for me.

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Posted: 13th Oct 2003 18:07
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Lemme try

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Still not working

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Loading the object with the texture flag of 1 fixes the problem. Weeee

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you're right, forgot to tell you that

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another method... the lost command (as it should be called):

"disable object zwrite objectnumber"

No, it will not light up blue when you type it, but yes it does work...

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what a slacker, I solve it for him and he doesnt mention it.

puh

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