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Would it be possible to make an actor transparent.
If so, how?


Mon Mar 17, 2008 6:07 pm
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No. Impossible.


Mon Mar 17, 2008 6:25 pm
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Not in the slightest way possible?
Could it not work in the same way a glow works seeing as though you're limited to bitmap?


Mon Mar 17, 2008 6:32 pm
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EDIT: Bugger, double post somehow.


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Mon Mar 17, 2008 6:32 pm
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An invisible sprite will not collide with anything.
It would fall through the floor.


Mon Mar 17, 2008 6:36 pm
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metal chao wrote:
An invisible sprite will not collide with anything.
It would fall through the floor.


Perhaps translucent would be the right word.


Mon Mar 17, 2008 6:57 pm
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But there is no translucent color. Only glows do that. Heeeyy... Maybe, just maybe, if we do this with atomgroups and emitters?

Gah, anyway, I'm not up to it.


Mon Mar 17, 2008 7:03 pm
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One pixel sprites, with glows attached MIGHT work, but you would be lucky to hit when you shoot at it.


Mon Mar 17, 2008 8:27 pm
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You could just make stealth clones, which I once tried, but the sprites got all screwy because I changed the file format. What I did was take materials from the background, and just replace the light soldier's sprites with bits of that material. So, if you made a sky one, you could blend in on the background. Sure, the computer would see you, but in multiplayer... with charheight = 9999, it could work.
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Sky
Sand
Grass
Bunker background


Tue Mar 18, 2008 12:24 am
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Hmmm... but you could do a ghost dropship, you know... with ghost actors that can't be hitten by bullets and can pass throuh doors and actors... but make it very expansive :P


Tue Mar 18, 2008 12:33 am
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hmmm.... Do this:

Image

The way the pixels are spaced out gives the impression that the (object) is transparent... The (2ed to) bottom part should give the best idea.


Tue Mar 18, 2008 1:01 am
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I'm gonna work on a translucibot...


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Make a ghost dropship... that would be awesome have a dropship that can pass through anything :D


Tue Mar 18, 2008 1:53 am
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Hahaha.
I did it first!


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Tue Mar 18, 2008 2:26 am
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Its a spriting skill the masters used before opacity was even invented!

*Looks up to the old SNES games*


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