Translucent Actor

craps

I am having a little trouble on how to make a translucent actor.
Would like to have an actor that will allow the background to be seen through it.

MarkOnTheIron

Go to actor attributes. In the color section you will see an "Alpha" attribute. That sets the transparency of an actor where 0 is completely transparent and 1 is completely visible.

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MarkOnTheIron

Or you can set the transparency while designing the image in your favorite graphic app.

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touchten

argghh somebody answered before me.. hahahhaa

( I was prowling around the forum, waiting to be able to answer a question, and this was my chance, because the rest was too hard to answer haha)

Is it also advisable to go to actor attributes, and "Graphics" and then uncheck the "visible" ?

does it work out the same with giving an Alpha as 0?

cheers

Anton

MarkOnTheIron

If Alpha is set to 0 the engine will treat the graphic as if it was visible, sucking some precious RAM and fps, but the plus is that you can change the visibility during gameplay.

On the other hand if you set Visibility to false it wont load the RAM and will see some more fps but you won't be able to change it during gameplay.

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craps

WOW
I thought alpha was on or off with zero or one. Decimals... Thanks.

JeffreyShimane

For the decimally-challenged, there's also a handy opacity slider (0-100%) when you open an actor and click on the color attribute.

craps

Okay that is solved my other problem is half fixed.

ACTOR A
touched - inside
Change Att game.book to 1
interpolate to alpha 1
if game.cart = 1
interpolate to (screen x,y)

CART ACTOR
touch - inside
if game.book = 1
change att to game.cart = 1

touch - inside
if game.switch = 1
change att to game.cart = 2

ACTOR B
touched - inside
Change Att game.switch to 1
interpolate to alpha 1
if game.cart = 2
interpolate to (screen x,y)

This only works for the actor 1 not number two?