Request As a player, would these shadows annoy you?

[LuckyDip]

where do these come from?

 

[Xx69xX]

where do these come from?

Got hold of mine through different places. lots of different Chinese servers still going (including SDO). Its getting access to them that's the big issue.

 

[LuckyDip]

fair enough ill have a shout about see what i can gather cheers dude

 

[Xx69xX]

fair enough ill have a shout about see what i can gather cheers dude

TaoBao is a good website, but has lots of little annoyances, like creating accounts/ accessing the downloads.

 

[Breezer]

Reduce the black blending values on blending mode (hold alt when dragging the toggles)

Itll help the shadow blend better without munching away too many dark pixels in the actual mon.

That or use color range and select the darkest part of the shadow, grab the select and reduce the opacity.

 

[Sanjian]

i actually forgot the WG from these mobs, i do have it >.<



what ill do is fix the shadows for everyone so they are not removed when imported, then ill re upload a new set of files for everyone to use

 

[Breezer]

i actually forgot the WG from these mobs, i do have it >.<

View attachment 25557

what ill do is fix the shadows for everyone so they are not removed when imported, then ill re upload a new set of files for everyone to use

Or just use a lib editor that doesn't clear the alpha since they're dxt5 ...

 

[Sanjian]

Or just use a lib editor that doesn't clear the alpha since they're dxt5 ...

except everything you talk about isnt catered for the layman like myself who has no idea what your talking about half the time

this method works, and ive done a vid and ill upload shortly. when you talk about complex (complex to me and others) things like the dxt compressions it scares people off and some files should be available to everyone.

i may, one day release the whole collection i have of these mobs all converted ready to be put into libs

 

[Far]

If there's something that needs to be changed in the lib editor to fix the issue then let me know, but likely going to need the code providing as I don't know much about images.

 

[Sanjian]

If there's something that needs to be changed in the lib editor to fix the issue then let me know, but likely going to need the code providing as I don't know much about images.

i was once advised to add another import button to the lib editor that would import images and not remove the black (0,0,0) value of the images

i imagine its a case of copying the import function but remove the removal of the black

 

[Far]

If that's all that needs doing to fix it i can do that

 

[Xx69xX]

If that's all that needs doing to fix it i can do that

This fix should solve all Transparent PNG image imports.

 

[Sanjian]

If that's all that needs doing to fix it i can do that

yes i believe it would

 

[zedina]

TaoBao is a good website, but has lots of little annoyances, like creating accounts/ accessing the downloads.

Do you have the Mir3 ones?

 

[Far]

I'm guessing its this bit @Breezer ?



This looks to be looking at every alpha pixel, and if the rgb are all 0,0,0 then it makes the alpha transparent too. Is it just a case of not doing this and those images will import correctly?

 

[Sanjian]

i remember someone told me argb is reversed inside ram which makes it become bgra, so the 3 (4th pixel is the alpha which is being set to 0 yeah)

 

[Far]

I dont think its fully reversed, i think alpha is just on the end so its rgba

 

[Breezer]

I'm guessing its this bit @Breezer ?

View attachment 25570

This looks to be looking at every alpha pixel, and if the rgb are all 0,0,0 then it makes the alpha transparent too. Is it just a case of not doing this and those images will import correctly?

Yeah so what I did on a few tools was have an option for handling DXT1 and DXT5.

In most cases my PNGs didn't need any alpha clearing, so I just didn't clear it.

Have an option to "Clear Alpha or Not" on import and it should be sweet.

 

[zedina]

Yeah so what I did on a few tools was have an option for handling DXT1 and DXT5.

If you really did it, then give it to Far, dont let the poor guy waste its time

 

[Breezer]

If you really did it, then give it to Far, dont let the poor guy waste its time

My lib editor isn't the same as the current source one and the edit is like 5mins.

I'm fine with far wasting 5mins.