Re: Magic of Aquaria SPOILERS!!!!!!! new pics Feb 15

[WiZaRDuSS]

I'm not colorblind, and I have to agree with Alpha on this one, I also see the white outlines around the 2 right butterflies, even before reading his comment.

[Sindhi]

Okay, you guys are right; Yogoda is working on removing them but it's not easy.

[Alec]

Hmm... there's a photoshop plugin that can help fix the "white halo" problem...

http://www.robinwood.com/Catalog/Technical/SL-Tuts/SLPages/WhiteHalo1.html

I know Wolfire.com had a great post about it, but I can't find it right now...

[Sindhi]

Thanks, Alec. I knew I wasn't making white lines around the graphics on purpose but I didn't know how to get rid of them, and they are very hard to see! Yogoda is studying the link you sent now. Hopefully all you sharp-eyed people out there can breathe a sigh of relief very soon...

[Yogoda]

Thanks a lot Alec, I figured out how to remove the white borders

The areas in my pictures that were 100% transparent were white pixels, and I guess the graphic card mix the pixels together before applying the transparency, that's why.

So here is what I do with Gimp :

- Transfer transparency in a mask.
- Disable the mask so I can see the transparent white pixels
- Changing the white pixels to black
- Applying the mask again.
- Fixed !

That's great Thanks !

[Alphasoldier]

I already said earlier on in this thread that you simply have to give everything a 1% visible black outline, but I was quickly pointed out that you all already knew how to fix it. :/

[Knight]

No, no, he's right on this one. There is a very minor white outline around the butterfly sprites. The kind you get from anti-aliasing your transparency in photoshop, then exporting to an image format (.gif) that doesn't support gradiated transparency. Try cutting the outer pixel of outline off of the sprites (select empty transparent area with wand, modify selection, decrease selection size by 1 pixel).

[Yogoda]

I already said earlier on in this thread that you simply have to give everything a 1% visible black outline, but I was quickly pointed out that you all already knew how to fix it. :/

The problem here was not the black outline, but the color of the invisible pixels that should be black and not white. If you put a black outline around the graphic but the invisible pixels are white, you will still have a white outline because the graphic card will mix the pixels. This is what happened with the green butterfly that had a black outline.

[Yogoda]

Oh, here they are !



Please, tell me it is fine now

[Sindhi]

Another screenshot for your kind attention.



Butterflies without halos in the sunset tunnel; Yogoda fixed the white halo around the plant in the
 sunset tunnel close-up after I took this shot.







Hey, you guys, we need puzzles for our mod; if anyone has a fertile mind please send us some ideas!!! We will be working on the story also but not sharing that part. Thank you for all the help and advice!

[Lady-Succubus]

I can't wait until this mod comes out... I'll have to torture myself by dying thousands of times over and over again just to see more beautiful places. ._.

[Knight]

Beautiful. Can't wait to see more.

[Lady-Succubus]

If I see any more I'll force myself to play the mod when it comes out and then die horrible deaths over and over again. =^.^=

[Sindhi]

no, Lady Succubus, we would never let you die horrible deaths... we will  have lots of lovely food for you to eat to grow strong and crafty, and hopefully more puzzles than horrible mean bosses (I modified my last post, please see it and the pics are replaced. Photobucket is being very glitchy today.). We need help with puzzles.  Any ideas are greatly appreciated. Alpha, just for you I will do a screenshot of the newly shaded trees. All of our bosses are beautiful as well as deadly, but nobody will have to spend more than a few minutes defeating them hopefully, and we will have convenient save crystals near the entrance to their lairs so you may kill them again and again. We are not heartless.

[Lady-Succubus]

no, Lady Succubus, we would never let you die horrible deaths... we will  have lots of lovely food for you to eat to grow strong and crafty, and hopefully more puzzles than horrible mean bosses (I modified my last post, please see it and the pics are replaced. Photobucket is being very glitchy today.). We need help with puzzles.  Any ideas are greatly appreciated. Alpha, just for you I will do a screenshot of the newly shaded trees. All of our bosses are beautiful as well as deadly, but nobody will have to spend more than a few minutes defeating them hopefully, and we will have convenient save crystals near the entrance to their lairs so you may kill them again and again. We are not heartless.

Yay! A game designer who actually cares without giving you ways to completley bypass major obstacles! =^.^=

Something that would be fun to see would be food items that can alter things in the world... like maybe something that makes you "smarter" by making puzzles easier?