Making Players Transparent

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Dec 31 2006, 3:08 am
Is it posible to make players transparent, I need to know because when players die they end up in the grave yard but I want them to look like ghosts to adda more realistic effect.
Dec 31 2006, 5:39 am
Any one ? BUMP
Dec 31 2006, 6:29 am
In response to Miran94
Dec 31 2006, 6:35 am
In response to Luchipher
Yes. You can't really make true transparent icons in BYOND {yet,hopefully?}, but you can use dithered icons instead. Isn't quite the same, but does the job alright.
Dec 31 2006, 10:25 am (Edited on Dec 31 2006, 10:40 am)
In response to Kaioken
Dithered Icons are the only way for now.
Dec 31 2006, 10:41 am
In response to Angel Enterprizes
Thank you every one now new question is it posible to make the players wavy with atom or something ?
Dec 31 2006, 10:43 am
In response to Miran94
Do not bump your posts within 24 hours, and not until the post disappears off the first page of the forum where you posted it. You only waited 2 hours. This is not a chat room where you should expect an instant reply. Forums require time for people to find your post and respond, especially in the morning, and especially more so on a holiday.

That said, for partial transparency you must currently use dithering. That will soon change however in BYOND 3.5++, which has full alpha transparency. If you like, you can get started making icons for it right away with any PNG editor that supports partial transparency (such as Photoshop or the GIMP). Also, you'll be able to convert icons to partial opacity fairly easily with the new system, like so:

// make an icon 50% opaque
// this code will only work in BYOND 3.5++ or later
icon *= rgb(255, 255, 255, 128)


Lummox JR
Dec 31 2006, 10:58 am
In response to Lummox JR
sorry but thanks you anyway
Dec 31 2006, 11:24 am
In response to Miran94
Miran94 wrote:
Thank you every one now new question is it posible to make the players wavy with atom or something ?

What?
Dec 31 2006, 3:01 pm
In response to Exophus
Its kind of a ripple effect is it posible to do it with the code or di i need an icon
Dec 31 2006, 9:00 pm
In response to Miran94
A ripple effect? You'll need to do that in the icon.
Jan 2 2007, 7:45 am
In response to Exophus
To make them transparent can you use the Blend proc somehow to make them seem transparent?
Jan 2 2007, 9:33 am
In response to Atomixkid
Again, you can't really have transparency in current BYOND, but in the new versions it will be very easy to do. You can only do dithering, currently (IIRC, you should be able to automatically dither an icon from code one method or another).