Hey, You were right in assuming I wanted hilites. I just wasn't sure how to say it. I already have the program made and the interface done, I was just looking for a way to improve it. Right now the interface is pretty simple. It is designed to look a little like LCARS ( http://homepage.mac.com/randmiranda/.Pictures/Desktop%20City%20II/lcars.jpg) from Star Trek (we do space simulations). So we have various buttons and controls, and everything else is black. I wanted to add hilites to all the black that is already there, without redoing all the images and opening them in Photoshop to make the black transparent. What I would like to do is add an image over the top of everything that is the hilites, but only shows up when the pixel is completely black. That way I could add a cool effect, without redoing the whole interface.
TTFN Bridger On 10/8/06, Dar Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Oct 8, 2006, at 9:20 PM, Bridger Maxwell wrote: > I have a need for an ink that makes an image visible ONLY if the > color > beneath it is a specific color. I was shooting for black, but I > can work > with whatever color is possible. I have a program where all empty > space is > black. This has advantages because it is very easy to move object > around > without having to worry about how it fits into the background. My > thought > would be to have an image and an ink that shows up only where it is > black. > Then I could give the black space a cool shiny black look (like > frontrow), > or whatever else. I'm a little confused about what you want. You mention a "specific color" and then you want to have a "cool shiny black look" which I assume means that you put highlights on it. This might do what you want: This needs 2.7. Choose any color or texture for your empty space color. Make it transparent where you don't want color. You can make an image that is transparent in those place and you can also build up a shape with multiple graphics grouped to together. Call that the "empty space" object. Group that with the image you want to move around with the image to the front. Set the ink of the "empty space" and the group to blendSrcOver. Set the ink of the image you want to move around to to blendSrcAtop. The opaqueness of the objects in the group under the image will allow the image to show. Outside of the image (or where it is transparent) the color or texture of the underlying "empty space" will show through. If I missed what you want, I apologize. You might not need any special ink. An alternate approach would be to set the color of the card to black. Make everything else not black. Then put the moving image between everything else and the card. That is, move it to the far back. Dar -- ************************************** Dar Scott Dar Scott Consulting and Dar's Lab 8637 Horacio Place NE Albuquerque, NM 87111 Lab, office, home: +1 505 299 9497 Fax: call above first Skype: ask http://www.swcp.com/dsc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer programming ************************************** _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
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