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AppGameKit Classic Chat / Sprite Masks?

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bjadams
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Posted: 24th Aug 2011 19:44
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In some other post, someone mentioned sprite masks.

Is this currently supported by AppGameKit or its a future feature?
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LeeBamber
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Posted: 31st Aug 2011 22:17
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There are no specific commands for sprite masks, but you can apply your own alpha channel to a PNG to provide your own sprite mask built into the image file. If anyone would like to see this feature as a new command, please let us know.

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bjadams
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Since it's all sprite based, the more sprite manipulation commands the better.
Right now we have the most rudimentary commands to get things going, but in the long run we would need more commands to reshape and manipulate sprites with code.
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Posted: 5th Sep 2011 04:51
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Can you reveal any details about what you'd like to use Sprite Masks for? It would help us shape the potential commands and parameters passed in, to make sure we don't miss any special functionality. The last time I used sprite masks (apart from shaders of course) was back in the Amiga days with the blitter chip

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sprite masks would be very useful for sprite manipulation.

right now we only have access to very basic sprite manipulation.

lets say i want to make a moon effect.

i can put a round ball sprite mask on a spite with a moon face texture, and uv scroll the moon face to create a rotating moon
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LeeBamber
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One way to create that effect is to place a black moon circle over a white moon circle against a black backdrop, and then add foreground items in the backdrop area like stars and cloud wisps. This should result in a similar effect as using a sprite mask without too much additional performance impact whilst avoiding to task of creating a large sequence of moon animation images.

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too limiting to have to use a same colour backdrop
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You could use a black strip with a round hole in it. placing the image you want to "scroll" behind it and putting it all behind the foreground images
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that would work as long as the background is black.

if the bg is not black it won't look so nice!
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JRNTexas's idea is a good one. You have two images. A large backdrop with a hole cut out, and the part that's been cut out as a small rectangle image as the first image drawn, in place of where the hole exists. Essentially rendering these two would produce a complete backdrop, complete with details (does not have to be black). You can then render the moon between the small cut-out image and the large screen sized backdrop which is drawn last, creating the effect you are after

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the bg with hole idea is good. got it now.
thanks
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