Mambo4
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RE: add one bitmap to another as alpha

Well, I do wish to improve my Dot Net Fu. would you suggest starting with the MSDN page for the bitmap class? ? My guess is that I’d create a dotNet…

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RE: add one bitmap to another as alpha

my .NET-fu is too weak for bitmap operations. I am experiencing no issues saving .tga from mxs. It may be slower but faster than manually building gam…

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RE: add one bitmap to another as alpha

@DennisT:the goal is # texture file with alpha as a final (tga, png, tiff, …) Specifically a 32 bit tga that is then passed ( via hiddenDoscommand …

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RE: add one bitmap to another as alpha

another Q about alpha channels… I’m using mxs to scale my textures down with this function: fn scaleBitmap theBitmap size =( local tx = bitmaptextu…

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RE: add one bitmap to another as alpha

Thanks Jorge! I had tried a single function but in my initial testes it seemed I couldn’t paste into an alpha channel that did not exist. I had not c…

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RE: add one bitmap to another as alpha

my solution invoked creating a new image with all 4 channels and pasting into it using pasteBitmap type:#function to composite each pixel. –poplate …

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RE: Sublime3dsMax

sweet! I really love sublime text. I hope you get it working on Sublime 3 soon!

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RE: constrain pos to a spherical radius

a late thread bump. The solution linked to above worked quite well. It basically involved ‘cheating’ with a scale script controller on an unrelated o…

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RE: constrain pos to a spherical radius

I posted a similar question at tech-art.org and got a clever solution that avoids change scripts entirely, using a scale script controller on a proxy…

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RE: constrain pos to a spherical radius

Nope, we export and review in the engine.

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RE: constrain pos to a spherical radius

rendering is irrelevant. we are exporting to a game engine, all bone transforms get baked in FBX. CTRL keyframes are saved in XAF files for re-use.

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RE: constrain pos to a spherical radius

I messed around with the change script and came up with this method of constraining the ctrl postion as if it were the bone nub, without setting it to…

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RE: constrain pos to a spherical radius

It may be a bit ‘vintage’ but we have a very low target platform, so exportable bones and such are limited. Given the need for the CTRL key data to be…

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RE: constrain pos to a spherical radius

I may have found something when transform $CTRL change handleAt:#redrawViews do ( if (animButtonState) then( addNewKey $CTRL.controller[#Positio…

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