[Suicide Junkie]

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie; December 30, 2002 17:44
You will be losing a lot of detail in those beams...
Perhaps I wasn't clear about how they worked. I have prepared a graphical example of how SE4 displays them:

Your starting image:

The pattern mask that is applied to each image (zoomed up):

The mask, overlaid on your first beam image:

The first beam image, masked to show which parts appear in SE4:

And finally, a simulated firing of the weapon to the right :


Is that what you intended?

The box outlined in green dots is the part that you will see in game when weapons fire. It gets tiled top to bottom as it travels across the screen.
The red part usually only appears at the tip of the beam (the bottom 3 pixels of the green box cover the ones from the red part on the very next tiling.
Since pure black is masked, the red part will tile if the corresponding green-box pixels are black.