In need of an image. any help wld b great!

[Far]

This might sound like a wierd request. but im in need of a 'portal' like image(s).

Basically you walk in to it, and it takes you to another location.

i tried using the mir3 geomanip teleport images. but whenever i make turn these images to a mob file, i see black all around.

the help i need. Could someone please suggest an images in mir they think wld b suitable to use as a portal.

needs to be animated, but have no more than 4 images (like mobs).

if someone can suggest an image, which they know will not produce black around it when i turn it to a mob file, then i will be very greatful.

/Farril

 

[NickAKAVexus]

Woool had a cool portal image... not sure about it producing black thought. Might want to look into it.

 

[Far]

cheers. iv used an orb atm. looks ok, but cld do with a better one.

 

[TrueADM]

If it's surrounded in black, you need to diffuse the image through alphablending.

 

[Far]

its black because the client takes out the black in magic.wil, but it doesnt in mon.wil

if i alphablend it, wont the main image become transparent also and make it look wierd?

 

[TrueADM]

There are like 20 different types of alphablending states. In these states black represents transparency whilst pure white is solid. It does this by using the lightmap value of the pixels and then applying this to each pixel in the array.

So the darker the colour, the more blended it will appear. Also Mir treats Magic.wil images differently to other images, hum.wil images for example get rendered with a colour key of black, meaning that one colour of black is taken out (RGB 0,0,0). RGB 1,1,1 looks exactly the same but it isn't taken out. If that makes sense, if not just ask and I'll try to help more.

 

[Far]

nah i get u cheers. what program would you suggest for the type of aphlablending i need? iv only got 4 images so theres no need for a program to do it in mass.

 

[TrueADM]

Well the alpha blending states have to be applied when rendered within the game. You could use a program to change all colours of the image in the range of 0,0,0 and 20,20,20 to 0,0,0; so that mir takes the black away.

 

[Far]

i havnt got the source codes, or any way of editing the client, wldnt this make your suggestion impossible?

 

[Babyhack]

Farril it can be done via Photoshop are any good image editing software

You just need to replace all the colour matches within the range 0,0,0 to 20,20,20 with the colour 0,0,0 as ADM said

As the mir client reads 0,0,0 as transparant it should look fine ingame

BH