Fading Alpha on text and texture memory

InLikeFlynn · June 2011

For the display text behavior, is there any way to change text colour or alpha in-game?

Also, whats a safe max for image memory? In retina mode is 50 megs ok?

osucowboy18 · June 2011

To change the text to alpha, use interpolate and say...

Interpolate self.color.alpha to 0
@ duration x where x is the length of time in seconds you want the fade out to occur in

Hope that helps

- Alex
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InLikeFlynn · June 2011

Thanks Alex. The problem seems to be that 'diplay text' is actually attached to an actor. Changing the alpha/colour using interpolate seems to only change those attributes on the original actor but not the text itself.

For example, you can have 3 different 'display text' messages all attached to one actor and they can all be different colours, so those colours are independent of the actor.

JohnPapiomitis · June 2011

You can change color or alpha, just not how u think.

You'll have to have different rules with different display texts. So when attribute is whatever display text color green. Then say u want to have it change to red when say score is greater then 100 you would have a rule when attribute score is greater then 100 display text color red

You'll just need different rules all with display text how u want it to be

InLikeFlynn · June 2011

Thanks John. That's how I have it now. Whats happening is each number is on attached to a star image. I have ten colour codes according to (the star's number)%10

So.. 17 and 77 are both green 16 and 76 are both yellow... The game looks better when the stars fade out instead of pop in and out, and I wanted the numbers to do the same using interpolate.

The other part of my question was about image memory because I thought about prerendering the numbers from 1 - 100 and just fading those images, but each star is 100x100 or so.

Fading Alpha on text and texture memory

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