Object Transparency

[Tricorder]

Very cool, thanks... but I noticed that the actuall stars in the center of systems still has a black ring around them showing, like they aren't totally masked/transparent or whatever.

I did put every heading that uses the starmap.bmp to masking=true. Any idea why the actual stars/suns for systems still show black?

I think this starmap.bmp I posted below is a little 'loud' for systems anyway, but now I know what to do if I find a REALLY good one, thanks.

[Tricorder]

Ya, that one I posted below a little 'loud' for spotting ships and stuff.

Here's a good starmap replacement which includes the matching blackhole one, too. And the smaller Versions are also included. A bit of color added to the small stars in background, but no 'loud' stuff.

I suggest unzipping to a temp directory then backing up the files in the matching SE4 directories first.

[Suicide Junkie]

What you're probably seeing is the fading edge of the star.
As the color goes from bright yellow to black, the outermost edges will look black, but not be black-enough to qualify for the masking routine.

Load the bitmaps into an editor, and set those really dark edge pixels to pure black.

[Andrés]

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Originally posted by suicide_junkie:
What you're probably seeing is the fading edge of the star.
As the color goes from bright yellow to black, the outermost edges will look black, but not be black-enough to qualify for the masking routine.

Load the bitmaps into an editor, and set those really dark edge pixels to pure black.

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That's possible but editing all stars/planets ect is too much.
Note that if your diplay color dephth is 16 bits instead of 24 bits, your system will have a little more tolerance. I discovered that in the other way, when I didn't want some shadows to appear transparent and was puzzled when some pictures masked correctly in some systems and not in others. Well, actually Aaron told me, that's it.