Text transparency
 

With both showtext and the showimg older way of showing text on screen transparency seems to be unsupported...

the script i used was this:

NPC Code:

---

// NPC made by Citizen Houdini Fontaine (Zormite)

if (created||playerenters) {

  showtext 0,x,y,Arial,,Test Text;

  changeimgzoom 0,5;

}



if (playerchats && strequals(#c,fade)) {

    changeimgcolors 0,0,0,1,0.5;

}

---

It turns blue if you try it when you say "fade" to show that the command is executed but the alpha doesn't affect the text...

Is there a way to make text fade to transparent?

(I will use a for () loop to make it fade at a given incriment but i can't affect the alpha of the text at all right now other than fading to black on a black background... I need it to be transparent.)

you didnt add changeimgmode, and Im not sure if transparency works on text

I am sure. It does not work.

We tried that too but got the same results.

Thats really very nice, but my question is does anybody know if there is a relatively convienient way to do what i'm trying to do here.

That's really very interesting, but I was not attempting to answer your question :)

To answer it, the only way to get transparent text is to save it as png or so, and display it as normal image.

hehe.. now where have I heard that before? *looks at houdini*
*snicker*

I had a counter thought up however to continue would be utterly pointless. I'm not concerned anymore with the thread and there seems to be nobody with a decent solution...

So mr. mod guy, close away, or whatever it is you do :)

Umm...maybe use showimg instead of showtext?

graal makes showtext lines showimg lines, showtext is just a more organized way of doing it

do you mean like half transparent?

If you want that just use:

NPC Code:

---

changeimgcolors index,r,g,b,alpha;

---

you can't do it with text.

u can, but u gotta use 'showimg' instead of 'showtext'

...showtext translates into showimg, showtext is just a more organized version of doing it

the four posts predating this one were just a summary of the whole thread... did you even read the entries before yours billybob? :(