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When I have custom character in not fully lit room, it looks weird (Look at Attached screen). Instead of only the graphic being shadded, the transparent part is shaded too.

The Image:


The graphic of character is in PNG, with Alpha channel shading. I think I tried every combination of transparency in PNG format, but nothing seemed to work - that's why I post about it here.

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And here I post a test hold if you want to see it for yourself.
All I did here was to create new character, import graphic, and put them around level.

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Oh,yes I noticed this. It's very boring, because all the invisible walls you make are visible with darkness...

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*Thud* 'Our only witness confirmed, that he saw Skell hitting his desk using his head, or to be more precise his forehead...Or else!'

Anyway, I've managed to fix the problem with custom shading. The background has to be rgb 192,192,192 - I've found something about this while reading Forum.

Though I think this should be in help file, so people won't get anymore problems with this. And adding help link, in character menu, to the designated part of help file.

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skell wrote:
Anyway, I've managed to fix the problem with custom shading. The background has to be rgb 192,192,192 - I've found something about this while reading Forum.

Wrong. As of version 3.0, DROD now supports PNG transparency as well. This is documented.

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This IS documented but doesn't work well with shadows, darkness and all that new candy-eyes. Look at the screenshot I've made:


You see the problem?

It however works fine if the background is RGB 192,192,192.

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skell wrote:
This IS documented but doesn't work well with shadows, darkness and all that new candy-eyes. Look at the screenshot I've made:


You see the problem?

It however works fine if the background is RGB 192,192,192.

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Yeah...it's safe to say that alpha transparency isn't supported for operations like darkness shading. Maybe it'll get patched some day, but just use 192-gray for the transparency mask at this point.

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I tried 192 192 192 but it doesn't work... It shows up as gray in the game.

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Is at least one of the corners transparent? Transparency doesn't work if none of the 4 corners are the transparent color.

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What do you mean by corner? I made one pixel transparent in the NW corner of the image, but it doesnt work...

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That should work, in principle at least. Not sure what the problem is, then.

(note - I meant one corner or each tile, not of the image that contains them, just in case that was not obvious).

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Here's the image, sorry for the copyright, after you see it, delete it.

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vittro wrote:
Here's the image, sorry for the copyright, after you see it, delete it.

Please stop posting Caravel sprites. It should be just as easy for you to report a bug using your own, hand-drawn images as it is to show it with ripped images.

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Here's the image. When I put it in game ( as a custom npc ) the 192 192 192 shows up as gray.

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eytanz wrote:
Is at least one of the corners transparent? Transparency doesn't work if none of the 4 corners are the transparent color.

By the way, it doesn't work this way in 3.0.0. DROD now checks whether any of the pixels are 192-gray, not just the four corners.

vittro wrote: When I put it in game ( as a custom npc ) the 192 192 192 shows up as gray.

Thanks. I've fixed it so DROD will now display 192-gray pixels in your alpha-layered image transparently (in 3.0.2).

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Mike, you did a really good work, but, the images with alpha background don't work anymore! I had an hold with 22 custom tiles imported... And I lost some of the source files...

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