I recently did a small experiment.

What would happen if you made BG tiles with every other pixel clear? With other things it creates a crude transparency.

I worked for maybe an hour to create some fitting BG tiles to test this with. Everything looked good when testing it in the image app I was using.

Unforunatly, I learned that such tiles choke the game when loading the level. It seems transparent background tiles are not possible. Rats.

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Look on the bright side: you can reproduce the effect by alternating between BG tile and empty space in a checker pattern.

OK, so it'll look like crap. Like I have a better idea.

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Hmm... I'd test this... but I'm too lazy. Oh well.

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Or you could upload what you've done and hope some other people will be able to find a use for your hard work.

Meaning I'd like to take a look at what you've done but I'm too lazy to do everything myself.

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What the heck?

(edit)aww I fell for it (/edit)

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(This message has been edited by Dr Tall (edited 08-30-2002).)

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Originally posted by Dr Tall:
**What the heck?

(edit)aww I fell for it (/edit)

**

:rolleyes:

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Originally posted by Dr Tall:
**What the heck?

(edit)aww I fell for it (/edit)

**

Yay! If it makes you feel any better, I believe you're the first. Wait a minute... that wouldn't make you feel any better.

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While we're on the topic of weird things about AVN, I'll disobey his signature and ask about this:

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Your pet poodle is flying loop-de-loops over my microchips! The poodle is coming! The poodle is coming! (Don't ask )

What the heck?

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Originally posted by sinclair44:
**What the heck?

**

Hehe! Well... a long time ago, I was learning C++, and for some reason, I wrote an app in which, at one point, it displayed random phrases. One of these phrases was "Your pet poodle is flying loop-de-loops over my microchips!" I have no clue why. Eventually it became a common phrase among my friends. Then one day, this really horribly bad chorus teacher came to our school, and we all made fun of him. We wrote a parody of one of the songs we sung:

"Get this poodle off of me
Before I pass out.
It fell on me from a tree.
Now I want to shout.

It is climbing on my back!
Get the shotgun off the rack!

Blow the ****
Out of it!
Shoot it in the head!

Blow the ****
Out of it!
Make sure that god damned thing is dead!"

From there, the poodle became a menacing creature of doom, and "The poodle is coming!" was a threat. Hehe... you know, that's an extremely odd story.

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Originally posted by AVN:
**Hehe... you know, that's an extremely odd story.:)
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Makes me glad I didn't go into teaching...

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Originally posted by AVN:
**Hehe... you know, that's an extremely odd story.:)

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No kiddin'.

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Originally posted by AVN:
Hehe... you know, that's an extremely odd story.:)

Yes, that is the absolute weirdest story I have heard. It even beats some of my friends' stories (and I hang out with the weirdest people at my school).

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Originally posted by Dr Tall:
**What the heck?

(edit)aww I fell for it (/edit)
**

I still don't get it....

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**I still don't get it....
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Look at his profile under his name. veeerrrry caaarreeefully. You'll get it.

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