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[NW_Kohaku]

I have been doing a lot of custom sprites for creatures I made for my mod. The problem is, that I cant get them to be displayed with transparency. Neither bmps nor pngs seem to work. I used Photoshop and Gimp for this.

Is the assumption correct, that transparency only works for tiles (as in: tilesets) and not for sprites ? (as in: graphics_creaturename)

I thought I might as well ask here, since there seems to be the hightest activity about graphics here. Thanks in advance for the answer

EDIT: The solution/workaround for this, if my assumption turns out to be correct, would be to make the creatures in the sprites as close to 16*16 pixel as possible, to have the minimum amount of background. Correct ?

If you are using actual transparency (instead of just magenta), you need to use .png files, because .bmp files do not support transparency. 

You also need to make sure that you are actually saving your files with transparency, and that when you edit them, they are in layers that have transparency (that is, erasing leaves a checkerboard background, instead of the secondary color). 

If a graphics set has transparency, the game will automatically use them.  Phoebus's graphics, for one, use partial transparency quite often.

[Meph]

I tried transparency as well as magenta background on bmps. The preview shows the creature tiles with a checkerboard background, or simply white/nothing, depending on the program I use to open them. DF on the other hand always shows black.

A user of my mod actually did do the transparency for all the sprites as well once, I added them and they dont work. I also spawned every creature in the arena once (to find out which have sprites and which ones only have characters) and I noticed on the screens I took that NONE has transparency. Even yours from the new phoebus version.

I run this in the init:
[GRAPHICS:YES]
[GRAPHICS_WINDOWEDX:0]
[GRAPHICS_WINDOWEDY:0]
[GRAPHICS_FONT:Phoebus_16x16.png]
[GRAPHICS_FULLSCREENX:0]
[GRAPHICS_FULLSCREENY:0]
[GRAPHICS_FULLFONT:Phoebus_16x16.png]
[GRAPHICS_BLACK_SPACE:YES]

[PRINT_MODE:2D]

I am a bit confused about the matter to be honest. I run the windows sdl version, heavily modded.

[NW_Kohaku]

If your tileset is 16x16, then your creature graphics should all be 16x16, as well. 

Other than that, as long as you are correctly making transparent backgrounds for your creature graphics, then there should be transparency.

Note that having a black background for a creature graphic is normal, however.  Are you saying it won't do things like flash blue in the background when you "play as" a unit in Arena mode and then come back out?

[Meph]

Black Backgound for a creature graphic is normal ?

All of the sprites are 16*16. To make clear what I mean:

1 is the floor tile, green grass.
2 is how the creature is currently displayed, with a black background.
3 is how I'd like the creature to be displayed, with a transparent background.

Sorry for abducting this thread a little, but there is only a modding questions thread, no graphics question thread

[NW_Kohaku]

Yes, "2" is normal.

The game doesn't do "layers".  It blinks between one icon and another when multiple objects occupy the same space because you don't have partially transparent objects overlayed on top of other objects.

Maybe you can talk Baughn into eventually adding functionality for that, but that's not how the game works right now.


Also, I think this would still qualify under a "modding question", so it would be appropriate for that thread.

[Meph]

Ah, ok. I did try the forum search, but couldnt find an answer to this question. Thanks a lot for clearing this up, it was driving me mildly insane.

PS: I thought it would fit here since I do use the phoebus tileset. Ascii obviously does not have this problem.

[Phoebus]

Black Backgound for a creature graphic is normal ?

All of the sprites are 16*16. To make clear what I mean:

1 is the floor tile, green grass.
2 is how the creature is currently displayed, with a black background.
3 is how I'd like the creature to be displayed, with a transparent background.

Sorry for abducting this thread a little, but there is only a modding questions thread, no graphics question thread

Dwarf Fortress only draws one tile per location. Dwarf Fortress will not draw the ground tile if there's an object/creature at that location.
What I do for my creature tilesets is add a translucent dirt background behind each creature in the the tileset.
This results in all creatures being drawn with the same dirt background ingame, which is much, much, better than the pitch black background.

Here's a large sheet of the standard translucent dirt ground that I'm using for the Phoebus Graphic Set.
background.png
The background needs to be translucent because many status effects are displayed using the background color, and if the tile is fully opaque the player won't be able to see those status effects at all.

[machiosabre]

Any chance you could put an option in the tileset assembling machine for lower elevations like in this tileset?
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=104261.0

in any case, this is still my favorite tileset

[Phoebus]

The horror, I'm just about to leave for a weekend vacation.

[Couchmonster]

Does phoebus 34.05 work with DF 34.06?

[Phoebus]

*Updated* 0.34.06v00
Updated to 0.34.06

[Couchmonster]

I love you!

[Phoebus]

I will be unavailable for the next 2-3 days, apologies in advance if there's a problem with the new version and I'm not here to fix it.

Does phoebus 34.05 work with DF 34.06?

I have no idea, sorry.

[bombzero]

your still awesome for how damn fast you update WHEN a new version comes out.

[Archereon]

dfdd is not loading for me....



And as always, the readme seems to be a copy paste that request that I use a utility that doesn't appear to exist in default dwarf fortress.

LNP is also not updated...


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