On 24 August 2010 05:41, James Paige <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 05:32:39AM +1200, Ralph Versteegen wrote: >> On 24 August 2010 04:39, James Paige <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 04:56:44AM -0700, [email protected] >> > wrote: >> >> teeemcee >> >> 2010-08-23 04:56:44 -0700 (Mon, 23 Aug 2010) >> >> 84 >> >> Add fuzzfactor option to edgebox and to slices and Fuzziness option in >> >> slice editor. >> >> --- >> > >> > I should add a plotscripting interface for this too... >> > >> > --- >> > James >> >> We should add an option to textboxes too (which was most of the whole >> point of the textures) >> >> However, as soon as I actually used fuzziness in the zone editor for a >> fade in/out animation, I was disappointed. It animated pretty badly >> (since then, I've tweaked the textures for multiples of 5%). I feel >> like I was limiting myself too severely in the algorithm used, and >> there's probably some other way that is much better for dither >> textures (such as those ones we had in programs like MS Paintbrush >> back in the 256 colour era). >> >> So I'm considering investigating an alternative fuzzyrect. Then maybe >> we could have 'dithered' boxes and 'textured' boxes (and boxes >> textured with a sprite tiled repeatedly would be good too) Except I >> spent a ridiculous amount of time already on fuzzyrect (and ellipse - >> a day each) so I'd rather not do that right now. > > I liked the fyzzyness because of the odd way it animated when you > stepped through the values. I agree it makes a poor fade, but it makes a > nice smokey swirl. > > What obstacles still stand in the way of real translucency support? > > --- > James
The answer is still "a committee should be appointed to write a technical report", although last week I was thinking of adding some simple 8bit -> 32bit -> blending -> 8bit functions to see whether halfway-decent fades could be done. _______________________________________________ Ohrrpgce mailing list [email protected] http://lists.motherhamster.org/listinfo.cgi/ohrrpgce-motherhamster.org
