Problem with alpha blending

[haunter]

I'm trying to edit G2k1's swimgani because I want the ripples around the head to be translucent... But it's not working...


I added this below the DEFAULTBODY/HEAD stuff... but it's not working...

NPC Code:

---

COLOREFFECT 20 1 1 1 0.5 

EFFECTMODE 20 2

COLOREFFECT 21 1 1 1 0.5 

EFFECTMODE 21 2

---

Any idea as to what I'm doing wrong?

And yes, the sprite numbers are 20, and 21.... Here, ill attach the gani with the changes...

[tlf288]

i have never got any color thing to work in ganis :-\ .

[haunter]

Originally posted by tlf288
i have never got any color thing to work in ganis :-\ .

Me either... This is my first time trying...

[--Chris--]

*Opens in wordpad*
Hm...
Well I'm not much of a scripter but I've never seen "EFFECTMODE" in any gani that uses effects. I'll attach a gani here I made which uses some, the script is from the original lamp gani on 2k1 - maybe it can help you out? I notice there's no:
"SCRIPT

<script here>

SCRIPTEND"

in yours either but like I mentioned before - I'm not much of a scripter and it may not be neccessary in yours ;x

[haunter]

Originally posted by --Chris--
*Opens in wordpad*
Hm...
Well I'm not much of a scripter but I've never seen "EFFECTMODE" in any gani that uses effects. I'll attach a gani here I made which uses some, the script is from the original lamp gani on 2k1 - maybe it can help you out? I notice there's no:
"SCRIPT

<script here>

SCRIPTEND"

in yours either but like I mentioned before - I'm not much of a scripter and it may not be neccessary in yours ;x

The lamp gani uses a showimg script to plop the light effect ontop of the person... I want to change the alpha of a sprite within the GANI... Thats why the lamp gani uses the SCRIPT / SCRIPTEND dealies...

And even if EFFECTMODE isn't a valid command, I don't think it should make a difference...


Edit : I did a search on Alpha in the gani forums and came up with two other threads not including this one... I read through them... its still not working though ;O


Edit2: Ok, i've looked in the newfeatures2002.txt which contains notes about EFFECTMODE and COLOREFFECT... And I've looked at Angel.gani which uses COLOREFFECT I seem to be doing everything right and yet it fails to work... This is baffling...

[haunter]

Well I can see this forum is being put to good use...

[calani]

i really should look into ganis
as of right now i can't even make a non-scripted gani o.o

[--Chris--]

You shouldn't make a sarcastic remark like that when people have tried to help and in just about every other thread has helped, not to mention there's an FAQ or two stickied

Gani scripting is quite limited and like I said before I've never even seen "EFFECTMODE" in a gani. Maybe what you're trying to do isn't even possible? I wouldn't doubt I'm wrong though e_e

[Thought]

You cannot use effects on 'variable' images, eg SPRITES, ATTR1, PARAM1, etc.

[TripleE]

haunter if you still are having trouble, ask Karsh.

[Neoreno]

I don't believe Karsh is too familiar with the scripting side of ganis.