Re: Transparency when using frames/sprites
By: Kirkman to art on Sun Jun 15 2014 18:57:11
> I see frame.js allows frames to have a transparency property, which can be s
> to true. The only explanation is "Do not display frame sectors where char ==
> undefined."
>
> Sprite.js by default sets its frames to transparent = true.
>
> I guess what I'm still wondering about is how this actually works. So if I h
> a small rectangular frame filled with an ANSI or BIN file, nothing will
> actually be transparent, because none of the characters will be undefined,
> right? I'm thinking the only way I could make use of the transparency is if
> render the characters individually in code, leaving some of them empty.
that is correct, but you could apply a filter for a specific color (or specific
set of attributes) to your graphic after you load it into a frame by iterating
the contents as a 2D array and comparing the .attr property to whatever color
you'd like to filter, and just set it to undefined if it matches.
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