LCD object draw transparency
|
Aug 19, 2008 at 1:25am
LCD object draw transparencyThis LCD is already getting a load of messages, but I’d love to be able to make transparent PaintRect’s on it, somehow. Anyone know how to do this? Doing a message like “paintrect 64 64 192 192 255 255 255 128″ still just paints a 128×128 black box, instead of a 128×128 box that’s at 50% opacity. |
|
|
Aug 19, 2008 at 3:11am
I know the help-file says penmode is deprecated but… currently, things seem different from what’s written. So you might try ‘penmode 32′ in tandem with the ‘oprgb $1 $1 $1′ message… something like this:
– Pasted Max Patch, click to expand. –
Copy all of the following text.Then, in Max, select New From Clipboard.
|
|
|
Aug 19, 2008 at 3:46am
Ah! This is so close to perfect it hurts. It’s not even your fault that it doesn’t work for me. Pretty sure it’s a bug in LCD – after all, penmode messages aren’t supposed to work anymore. The problem is that whenever I move my paintrect (I’m using them as ‘zone’ delineation, the user can move them around and resize them) it flashes to more opaque. It seems to draw over itself a few times before it clears the old versions of it, so it’s layering on top of itself. Maybe I can bother the devs enough into giving LCD true transparency support. :P Thanks much, though! I’ll keep toying with it and see what I can get. |
|
|
Aug 19, 2008 at 3:57am
Yes! Definitely bother the devs by sending your request directly to Btw, just in case it still might help, I got as far as I got by taking a look at the examples here and working from there: It may be that javascript can also help you with what you need, not sure… best of luck. |
|
|
Aug 19, 2008 at 4:00am
I will be out of the office from August 7 until August 25 and will not Thank you |
|
|
Aug 19, 2008 at 4:49am
OK, what’s with these messages from barbara? This is the second time I’ve seen one. |
|
|
Aug 19, 2008 at 5:46pm
i’d recommend staying away from penmodes. Unless i’m misunderstanding, you can just send a ‘frgb x x x x’ before you paint in lcd:
– Pasted Max Patch, click to expand. –
Copy all of the following text.Then, in Max, select New From Clipboard.
|
|
|
Aug 19, 2008 at 5:58pm
Ah, sweet, that works. I guess that’s the alpha they were talking about in the helpfile(not directly within the paintrect drawsprite message but within frgb first). |
|
|
Aug 19, 2008 at 6:15pm
this is technically a workaround, there is some funkiness with paint commands ignoring the alpha. We are taking a look at it. -Ben |
You must be logged in to reply to this topic.