I'm trying to display a blended lightbeam mesh in front of my alpha blended meshes and additive blending erases them, opaque materials are displayed correctly. Anyone had a similar issue
I have resolved the issue by making a little hack, ive found out that if you add objects to scene per script, static stage objects coming from minko studio tend to cause this problem. my solution was to make the lighbeam a very big particle and it worked as both the circle under the mesh and lightbeam were now added through script
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Comparison Of Different Publishing Methods From Flash CC
It seems like there is a huge difference between what's published by through Flash CC HTML5 with CreateJS and what's actually created on the program although they are exact copies (I'm not talking about the pose of the character)
The shapes making up the body parts are all triangles with a solid fill and no stroke.
However, in the HTML5 published versions it looks like all those shapes now have a thin transparent stroke around them in between each other.
Any explanation or official support is greatly appreciated!
UPDATE:
The accepted answer definitely improved some of the problem but unfortunately not enough.
Since it's a platform limitation, I decided to work around it by doubling up all the assets of every layer and minutely overlapping them as best as I can.
Here's a link of the work around being implemented if you wanted an update:
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This is an unfortunate issue with Canvas. The SWF format actually draws lines with fills on both sides, which enables the SWF (and Flash/Animate IDE) to create seamless edges when drawing shapes with edges that line up. Canvas can not do that, so the antialiasing causes the effect you are seeing.
A possible approach would be to cache it at a larger size, and scale it down.
var bounds = character.nominalBounds; // Added by Flash export
character.cache(bounds.x, bounds.y, bounds.width, bounds.height, 2);
The last parameter is the cache scale factor (in this case it doubles the cache size). It will still draw at the expected scale though.
I made a quick sample to show the difference, and it does help. Note that caching is also a good way to get rid of aliasing on edges. You can download the sample here. Uses Adobe Animate 2016.
Plain shapes exported from Adobe Animate
Cached the shape container
Doubled the cache size
You also might want to consider dropping in a shape behind it that is closer to the color of the shapes, so if the edges show through, it is not the dark grey background.
I've been searching for answer for about 2 hours now and I haven't found my desired answer. My question is, Is it possible, and how, to draw a circle-shaped texture, so that outside the circle, texture would be transparent, is it even possible?
Thanks in advance! This site has been a great help so far!
The easiest way is to open a program like Photoshop and make an image with an alpha-channel. That means: Start with a completely transparent image and draw a circle on it. Then save it as .png
You can then just load it in your game and render it using a SpriteBatch. It (or better your graphics card) knows how to handle the alphachannel and will keep everything but the circle completely invisible.
This way you do not have to manipulate any pixmaps at runtime and you are not limited to simple shapes like circles.
If the portion of the texture you want to see in the circle is not meant to change during execution, the easiest way is to open Photoshop, make what you want, export it as an image and then load it in a Texture or a Sprite object in your code.
But this can also be done at runtime, via OpenGL using a Stencil test. This is the only solution if the portion displayed in the circle will have to be alterable during execution.
pixmap use this link if u are using other than .png format for your images
Apart form it if you are using png images then just draw the cirlce. Outside the circle will remain transparent.
Let's say I use the Graphics class at runtime to draw some vector shapes dynamically. For example a square and a circle.
Is there a way to create a new shape at runtime where those 2 vectors shapes overlap?
Those kind of operations are very common in all vector design programs such as Illustrator, Corel, etc... but I haven't found anything in Adobe's documentation, nor anywhere else, to do it by code.
Although drawing operations on the Graphics class are described in terms of lines, points etc this is - as far as you're concerned - just telling it what to draw onto a bitmap. There's no way to remove a shape once drawn, short of clear(), which just wipes the whole thing clean.
I don't fully understand why, as the vector data must be retained - there's no loss of quality on scaling after drawing, for example.
If you don't want to get into some hardcore maths (for anything beyond straight lines, you'll need to) there's an answer here which might help if you've ever used PixelBender:
How to calculate intersection between shapes in flash / action script ? (access to shape's segments and nodes?)
Failing that, if it's just cosmetic you could play around with masking shapes (will probably end up quite hacky though) - however, if you actually want to use the intersection to draw or describe a shape you will need to dig out your maths book or look for a good graphics library.
Hope this helps
We're developing a game with impactjs that allows 'chaining' of entities as they are clicked. Basically this just draws a line between the two points, with a neon glow effect. So far, so good. Now, we have a request to make the 'chain' connections animated - fire, sparkles, etc. Essentially things that seem like they'd need actual graphic animations to look right. As the entities can be any distance/angle from each other, we're stuck at how to best implement a solution for this - that is, how to draw a diagonal image, for example, between two random points that we can animate. Any thoughts our suggestions on how to pull this off would be much appreciated.
Maybe create a particle entity with an Animation Sheet containing the necessary animations/particle effects. And then draw these particles along the line that from point A to point B.
When you want to animate it to fire/sparkles etc. run the animation for all those entities. in that line.
I'd be inclined to agree with Prat. Particle effects would most likely be what you need.
Here is a tutorial on generating particle effects in impact.js that might help you out.
http://www.pointofimpactjs.com/snippets/view/24/particle-effects-generation
I am working on a jigsaw-like game in as3 where irregularly shaped layers imported from photoshop are used to mask parts of their original background.
By setting cacheAsBitmap=true on the mask and its contents the result is a nice irregular shape with its transparent bounding portions left out.
However the invisible bounding areas are still detected at MOUSE_DOWN. I would prefer the mouse not be detected anywhere but on the visible masked part. At the moment I cannot detect the mouse on any other clips on the stage that might appear behind the overlapping transparent areas.
I have seen a solution here involving bitmap pixel detection which I have not found a way to apply as a solution. The contents of my masked areas are either shapes or MovieClips.
I hope someone can help me find a solution
The simplest and the most stable approach to prevent the mouse events on the transparent area of bitmap graphics is to create a separate vector shape as the target for mouse and set the mouseEnabled flag to false to the bitmap or set hitArea property to this shape.
You can create such shape manually in the Flash IDE for the tests and even for the production. Sometimes it's more suitable to write the bitmap tracert script that creates contour shape in runtime by checking the pixel transparency.