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Zabaware Forums => Ultra Hal 7.0 => Topic started by: harlee246310 on April 12, 2004, 10:30:17 pm

Title: new skin question
Post by: harlee246310 on April 12, 2004, 10:30:17 pm

Is there a way to make a free floating 3-D head without a backdrop window work with hal or is there a way to make the skin invisable.

Title: new skin question
Post by: iam bennu on April 22, 2004, 10:35:44 pm

I am pretty sure, but other forum users feel free to correct me, the background of the 3D heads is from the Haptek player used.

I have been also making new skins so I've had do do some of what you are speaking of. You can make areas of your skin transparent yby making the color R:255 G:0 B:255 and saving it as a bitmap. It can be a bit tricky to get all of the background color (which is going to be used as a mask)to that color with outit bleading into the part that you want to be see. I turn off all anti-aliase when you make the mask for the object.

I then downloaded the Transparency Mask Creator in on the pluggins page:

 http://www.ultrahal.com/files/detail.asp?iFile=196&iType=18

It make a mask mapping from the bitmap tha you create that you have to add to your skin file.

I hope that that helps you out some.

Title: new skin question
Post by: harlee246310 on April 23, 2004, 01:32:47 am

Thanks for the tip.I will see what I can do.