"Say you're hanging from a huge cliff at the top of mt. everest and a guy comes along and says he'll save you, and proceeds to throw religious pamphlets at you while simultaniously giving a sermon." - Dustin G
Easiest method?
Make a counter that tells what time of the day it is. from 0 to 23 (11 PM). When the counter reaches 24, set it to 0. You can also do another minute counter if you want.
Make a large full-screen black active object and set it to enough transparency so that it looks like night. We'll call this number X.
Set an event so that when counter = 0, set active object transparency to X.
Then just adjust the transparency accordingly to the time of day. Sunrise and sunset times can really vary.
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Deleted User
18th January, 2004 at 00:10:30 -
Muz's method would work, but MMF would slow down horribly.
I actually know an awesome way of making night and day systems, but I'm not going to tell about it here. It changes from night to day, and viceversa in runtime, everything darkens, lightens, etc.
Sorry, forgot to mention that. I don't think it really bothers MMF 1.5, since most of the other 'really slow' stuff seems a lot faster in the new MMF. The main problem would be that your file size could increase significantly, especially if you're using 16 M colors, have a large screen resolution, and use it on multiple frames.
Alonso, why not make a tutorial for your style? You could gain a little fame from everyone who uses it...
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You're using TGF? My idea was meant to work with MMF 1.5. TGF's gonna run reeaaaaallly slow if you go with my idea.
Well, maybe it won't. Maybe that was anti-aliasing, not transparency.
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Time for the lazy way out and just paste an
active object over the playfield.
I can make different objects with different transparency
rates for different times of the day.
- Or fork out cash for MMF.
But I'ts cleared up a few q's that I needed to know.
n/a
Deleted User
1st June, 2004 at 07:04:44 -
I don't want to gain fame. Especially here, in DC.
I still use TGF. Mainly because I have not the
free money to spend on mmf1.5, or when I do, I'll
want mmf2.
-Above post is ancient and probably irrelevant-
An old account of mine, recently cleared out. It's a blast to the past, the age was marked as 14 when I found it. If you know where to look, you can track me. Au revoir.
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If you know where to look, you can track me. Au revoir.