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- > > > Can you not just save the screen at the time you press the menu key
- > > > and when fade it and place the menu on top on it? This could look very
- >
- > > How do you 'fade' a truecolour picture within less than tons of VBLs?
- >
- > Well, it depends what you mean by 'fade'. If you mean a realtime fade, like
- > in bitplane modes, then its difficult.
- >
- > But, the way I read Magnus' mail was that it was just a *faded* screen -
- > ie it goes darker in one step - rather than fading down gradually.
-
- Yeah! You understod correctly, as usually. :-)
- Yes, what I ment was a one step fade, not a "faded" screen, exactly like you said.
-
- > I have done a simple 'pause' screen which when you press 'P' or Pause on a
- > jaguar controller it fades the screen down to 50% (in one go), and waits
- > for you to press it again before accepting any input. Ideally, it would
- > also display the PAUSED sprite from the WAD file as well...
-
- Excellent! :-)) This is what I wanted to say in the first place. Adding
- that realtime fire effect Elias have made for their demo would look realy cool
- on this. I have made a picture at home that show what I have in mind if
- anyone is interested. It's not as pretty as it could be done, but it
- will give you a idea how it could look.
-
- And ofcourse, there would be no fire when pausing... :-)
-
- I like this idea more and more.
-
- Anyway it can't be that hard to "fade" the picture as the lightning effects
- in Bad Mood does that all the time (flashing light), but that is probably not
- usable in this case...
-
- //Magnus Kollberg
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