I'm trying to make a plugin that adds the Maelstrom ship and shenobi ships to EV/O, It also is supposed to add their guns. But when I fire the blue plasma cannon It leaves a trail of little shots that arent really there. I can't figure out what is wrong. I have a guess though. The shot pict is square, so to make its mask all I did was make a white square of the same size as the shot spin. Could that be a problem? if so how do I fix the problem?

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Could you post a screenshot? It has nothing to do with squares, I assure you.

Is it a multiple of 8 x a multiple of 8?
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Originally posted by Captain Phillips:
**I'm trying to make a plugin that adds the Maelstrom ship and shenobi ships to EV/O, It also is supposed to add their guns. But when I fire the blue plasma cannon It leaves a trail of little shots that arent really there. I can't figure out what is wrong. I have a guess though. The shot pict is square, so to make its mask all I did was make a white square of the same size as the shot spin. Could that be a problem? if so how do I fix the problem?

**

So, the mask is square and the sprite is square?
Or is it the mask is square and the sprite isnt?

If its the first one, is the mask purely black and white (white where the shot is). If the latter, then you need to do this:
If you have photoshop:

1. copy and paste the weapon sprite into a new document
2. Use the magic want with a tolorance of 0 and anti-alising off
3. Click on the black part of the sprite
4. find the inverse menu and inverse the selection
5. set the background to white and press delete

Hope that helps

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Originally posted by The Cheat:
**So, the mask is square and the sprite is square?
Or is it the mask is square and the sprite isnt?

If its the first one, is the mask purely black and white (white where the shot is). If the latter, then you need to do this:
If you have photoshop:

1. copy and paste the weapon sprite into a new document
2. Use the magic want with a tolorance of 0 and anti-alising off
3. Click on the black part of the sprite
4. find the inverse menu and inverse the selection
5. set the background to white and press delete

Hope that helps

**

this is maybe gonna sound wierd.

I opened the Icn for the Maelstrom sprite. To my surprise it wasn't ball shaped. It was a four by four pixel square. so I copyed this in photoshop, made my spin be 24 by 24 and pasted this shot in 36 times with no black in between. Therefore the mask was a white square of 24 by 24.
could that cause a problem?

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You sure there isn't any black at the corners?I've played around with graphics in that kind of way before, and if the mask is off at all weird things happen.

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Originally posted by Captain Phillips:
**this is maybe gonna sound wierd.

I opened the Icn for the Maelstrom sprite. To my surprise it wasn't ball shaped. It was a four by four pixel square. so I copyed this in photoshop, made my spin be 24 by 24 and pasted this shot in 36 times with no black in between. Therefore the mask was a white square of 24 by 24.
could that cause a problem?

**

Yes i could. Make each sprite 26X26. with black on the outside.

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Originally posted by The Cheat:
**Yes i could. Make each sprite 26X26. with black on the outside.

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Hmmm, I'll try that. I thought maybe making each shot be six by six with black edging, so therould be black between every pict would fix the problem, but your idea is much more easy.

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