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Offline Harky

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« on: December 03, 2005, 11:54:38 AM »
I think we should fix this if we can.. looks bad lol..

Offline Sirbomber

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« Reply #1 on: December 03, 2005, 12:04:35 PM »
It generates it's own light?

Completely off-topic, but it'd be nice if we could trade rockets/missiles/rlvs.
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Offline Freeza-CII

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« Reply #2 on: December 03, 2005, 01:08:34 PM »
lets just say they plugged a few flood lamps into a ups lol

or all the people are out side with there flash lights.

It might generate its own light i think it is classified as a vec.
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Offline Leviathan

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« Reply #3 on: December 03, 2005, 01:12:09 PM »
the reason for this is that there is no dark version of that gfx for the missile.

i dont think we can fix it

Offline HaXtOr

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« Reply #4 on: December 03, 2005, 01:24:18 PM »
I think it is a good thing to have, other wise in multiplayer people could have tons hidden and that is so cheap

Offline zigzagjoe

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« Reply #5 on: December 03, 2005, 01:31:18 PM »
yes; levi is correct. there is no alternate gfx for dark, so it cannot be done.

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« Reply #6 on: December 03, 2005, 06:56:49 PM »
Actually, that's not correct. There are no dark versions for anything. But you still get units hidden in the dark quite nicely. The lighting effects are probably applied to the palettes used to draw the units. It just has to darken all the colors in the palette (maybe a cached copy of them) and use the right palette depending on the lighting level.
 

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« Reply #7 on: December 04, 2005, 02:32:11 PM »
Actually doesn't it just mask over top of the stuff after it's blitted?

I thought that's what virmask.raw was for.

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« Reply #8 on: December 04, 2005, 06:09:27 PM »
Yeah maybe. That's why I said probably. I don't know exactly how it's done, but the game obviously does it. There are no darkened versions of anything in the graphics files. Although, I suspect the palette method could have been more efficient.

 

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« Reply #9 on: December 08, 2005, 10:51:31 PM »
i think it should be fixed tho.. and what about the broken rockets in the gfx file could those be used too? it might not look pretty maybe out of place but i still would like to see it..
« Last Edit: December 08, 2005, 10:52:14 PM by Harky »

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« Reply #10 on: December 09, 2005, 01:22:12 AM »
Is it the darkness factor or is the potential phallic symbol that's being complained about? (especially considering it's highlighting)
« Last Edit: December 09, 2005, 01:24:41 AM by leeor_net »