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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Glowing sprites?

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Giku_
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Posted: 10th Jul 2012 14:02
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Is it possible to make sprites glowing? I mean, like in a mouseover situation: I point the cursor on a sprite and it glows?

So is there another way instead of making a glowing sprite mask for every loaded sprite?

Thanks in advance and sorry for my english.
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TheComet
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Posted: 10th Jul 2012 14:07
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There's no getting around the glowing sprite mask as far as I know. You can however procedurally generate the glowing image by code with this command:

blur bitmap

It's a slow command, and you have to convert back and forth between image and bitmap. I suggest you download Image Kit, a nice image manipulating plugin made by Sven B. You have this command:

IK blur image

Just ghost the blurred image over the original image, and you'll have yourself a nice glowing effect.

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Pincho Paxton
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Posted: 10th Jul 2012 14:14 Edited at: 10th Jul 2012 14:20
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I don't know what a glowing sprite mask is. I suppose an easy way is to create an alpha glow image in Photoshop, and alter its transparency. If it's bright alpha image the more transparent it is the darker it will be. So you just make it less transparent, and the sprite will glow.

If it's just that you don't want to draw the glowing images, you can make them all in one go on a sheet, or you can make a Photoshop Batch action that does all of the sprites in a folder in one go.

The Photoshop action would be Filter/Blur/Diffuse/transparency/ save as PNG. Which means record those actions, and go to File / Automate / Batch.... choose folder/ choose destination folder.

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Giku_
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Posted: 11th Jul 2012 14:43
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Thank you very much guys, i'm going to try the Image Kit V2, but i didn't know the Batch function, so i think i will use it in some cases!!!
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