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Offline Tallacaps

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Invisible polygon
« on: December 22, 2006, 06:17:48 am »

Is it possible to make a invisible polygon?

Untexture a polygon and set it with that kind of greenĀ  that makes transparency.

Or  a polygon the same colour background map.
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Offline CarlHamilton

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Re: Invisible polygon
« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2006, 07:13:44 am »
I don't think the untextured green thing works, but you could try one of these:
1. Use the Reverse Visiibility (^R) thingey in PW
2. Just as you thought, untexture and color it the same way the background is
3. Wait for the next version of Soldat (which has alpha polygons)
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Re: Invisible polygon
« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2006, 10:41:10 am »
Doesn't 1 do 2? :P I thought 1 detects the BG colors in coordination with the polygon's position and auto-colors it similarly.

EDIT But yeah, Soldat will have alpha-transparency capability for polygons. Something Anna discovered while digging through the .PMS format (it's not a change in the file format, it was just never exploited, so the rule in The Official Suggestions Sticky regarding no new map abilities still applies)...
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Re: Invisible polygon
« Reply #3 on: December 22, 2006, 11:13:57 am »
Keron can you give more information on how this works?
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Re: Invisible polygon
« Reply #4 on: December 22, 2006, 02:41:50 pm »
If you have the latest PW version you'll notice that when you select a polygon, an opacity % appears in the properties window. The palette window's opacity also now affects created polygons.
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Re: Invisible polygon
« Reply #5 on: December 22, 2006, 02:42:30 pm »

Thanks for the answers.  :)
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Re: Invisible polygon
« Reply #6 on: December 24, 2006, 08:06:17 am »
Quote from: Tallacaps on December 22, 2006, 06:17:48 am

Is it possible to make a invisible polygon?

Untexture a polygon and set it with that kind of green  that makes transparency.

Or a polygon the same colour background map.

btw that reverse visibility thing is actually a bug, you can see that if you have the newest video card.
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