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Aug 27 2009, 08:48 PM
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Forum Member Posts: 3 Joined: 27-August 09 |
Hey guys
I'm new around! This is my first post - one of many I hope! It seems like a nice decent place. So, I have a question - because this has been somewhat of a pain lately. There are some BAMs in the BG2:SoA game that needs fix - so that black outlining/filling of the animations are gone - just like the animation quality of "Fire Shield" spell, for instance. And, ofcourse, I do need to know that when I start creating my own animations as well. Can anyone help please? I'd like to know fix this. Best wishes! |
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Sep 1 2009, 04:48 PM
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consiglieri Member of Graphics Dept. Posts: 2343 Joined: 13-August 04 From: Michigan, U.S.A. |
Welcome to BWL!
The black might need to be there (tho it might not be rbg, 0,0,0 but a very dark color that looks black) because if it were cut any closer to the brighter colors it would loose a softer edge. Bam format does not allow for 8 bits for the alpha. but maybe only 2 bits. So transparency is either on or off, no semi- transparent colors. you could go through each animation frame and may manually clean up some of them Bams. you can make animations in either 2 or 3d then convert to 256 (indexed?) color then import them in bam workshop. this can be done one at a time or importing a gif. -------------------- |
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Feb 2 2010, 04:12 PM
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Forum Member Posts: 3 Joined: 27-August 09 |
Welcome to BWL! The black might need to be there (tho it might not be rbg, 0,0,0 but a very dark color that looks black) because if it were cut any closer to the brighter colors it would loose a softer edge. Bam format does not allow for 8 bits for the alpha. but maybe only 2 bits. So transparency is either on or off, no semi- transparent colors. you could go through each animation frame and may manually clean up some of them Bams. you can make animations in either 2 or 3d then convert to 256 (indexed?) color then import them in bam workshop. this can be done one at a time or importing a gif. Hello again, and thank you for the warm welcome! I'm sorry for this very late reply. I had an injury on my arms which needed time to heal. Now things are much much better, and they're fully recovered! Ok, now for the BAM question.... well, the reason I asked this was because there are lots of BAMs in BG2SoA which have black outlining - where they should have been transparent. And those are the BAMs I'd like to "tweak". I'll give you an example next time I get the chance checking the BAMs. No semi-transparent colors? That's strange... how does that BAM for Missile Protection cylinder work then? Because, it's clearly colored - yet, when one activated that spell - it appears half-transparent on the character. |
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