no alpha used in <Cockpit front="sprite.spr">

pheldens · Post by **pheldens** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 11:35 am

Hi, is there a way to use the alpha channel in sprites defined in cockpit views? <Cockpit front="sprite.spr">

It doesnt seem to work, like with normal sprites for spec, jump, etc.

I have

sprite.spr wrote: cockpit/sprite.png cockpit/sprite.png
1 1
0 0

And only it's hard colors are shown, not the 50% transparant sections.
the same .spr works fine on other places in the hud.

Post by **klauss** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 3:36 pm

It's a config issue, actually.
Find the high_quality_sprites variable, which must be on false, and set it to true. That will enable 50% transparency zones, if your png has them.

pheldens · Post by **pheldens** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 5:20 pm

Thanks, but I had that enabled already myself.

Other sprites render 50% alpha fine, it's just the cockpit sprite that doesnt.
I'm now using a 'hack' with the crosshair sprite that does handle it. ;p

Post by **klauss** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 5:27 pm

I'll check that... it should allow translucency.

pheldens · Post by **pheldens** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 12:14 pm

Quit message alpha. With and without on screen vector graphics. (Target Selector on Atlantis)

Halleck · Post by **Halleck** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 12:57 pm

Interesting, perhaps make it a little bit darker?

Also, if you plan to use the logo, please make your source files available to us (so we can update it to use the new logo later.)

pheldens · Post by **pheldens** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 2:36 pm

cockpit alpha.

Post by **klauss** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 12:04 am

Just a warning:
There are some bugs in cockpit stuff, that I fixed and will commit later.
The most nasty of them will crash to desktop.

For instance... to have alpha in cockpit files, you need this in vegastrike.config (graphics section)

Code: Select all

<var name="blend_panels" value="true"/>

pheldens · Post by **pheldens** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 5:04 am

thanks klauss I'll check them out later to see how it behaves.

these tests were done with CVS of 14 jan 2006
and in versions before that I had similar results.

Post by **klauss** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 2:26 pm

I'll commit the fixes tomorrow... I forgot to bring the files today. Oops... sorry.