Pacman bike wall texture

k · Post by k » Fri May 14, 2004 5:44 pm

Has anyone made a bike trail texture that is all transparent except for large circles so it looks like you are leaving behind Pacman dots?

Just a thought. I haven't played around with Fireworks enough to figure out transparencies in pngs.

iceman · Post by **iceman** » Fri May 14, 2004 5:49 pm

ive made a lot of transparent walls (sadly my wall page is missing since i changed my website but it will be back soon)

ive not used fireworks just photoshop (does the job)

locutus · Post by **locutus** » Fri May 14, 2004 8:56 pm

I've made aobut 40 experimental wll images but no pacman dots...got a cool playboy centerfold texture though, gives you somethign to look at while you are grinding

n54 · Post by **n54** » Sat May 15, 2004 1:18 am

locutus wrote:I've made aobut 40 experimental wll images but no pacman dots...got a cool playboy centerfold texture though, gives you somethign to look at while you are grinding

talk about making the game harder lol

subby · Post by **subby** » Sat May 15, 2004 2:24 am

locutus wrote:I've made aobut 40 experimental wll images but no pacman dots...got a cool playboy centerfold texture though, gives you somethign to look at while you are grinding

hehe, ive got one of those two, except my girl is spread eagled lol, though i must say, things move to quickly to enjoy it

RUDEBOY! · Post by **RUDEBOY!** » Sat May 15, 2004 2:27 am

i tried the pacman death sequence once, if you go fast enough it looks like pacman dying on the area between the bike and the wall, i dunno what i did with it tho, it was alot of work

iceman · Post by **iceman** » Sun May 16, 2004 1:24 am

kerplunk

nicolas.b · Post by **nicolas.b** » Tue May 18, 2004 10:36 am

can someone tell me what i'm doing wrong here?

i was looking at some of the custom .png bike trail walls in photoshop and they all got displayed as pure white. i couldn't figure out if WHITE was supposed to be the transparency color or BLACK, or what. in a .gif you will see the checkerboard pattern to indicate transperancy, but apparantly png's work differently...

or maybe there is something quirky about my photoshop settings...? (i must admit i'm a very mediocre photoshop person)

locutus · Post by **locutus** » Tue May 18, 2004 12:35 pm

you should see transparencies in photoshop 7

when I open one of my transparent walls(png) in ps, it has checker boards for transparent areas

both black and white can be made transparent in ps but using balck is more effective in the game imo

iceman · Post by **iceman** » Tue May 18, 2004 1:28 pm

if your using an old version of photoshop (i use photoshop 3 same problem) then the wall will display as white when solid

black = 100% fully transparent
mid gray = 50%
white = solid (0% transparent)
etc etc

have fun

nicolas.b · Post by **nicolas.b** » Tue May 18, 2004 7:24 pm

i have to use an older version of PS (5.5) because of my OS (98SE). i did try to use black as a transperancy but all it did was draw black walls in the game- very scary- looked like some kind of 60's hippie black light / neon thing...

k · Post by k » Tue May 18, 2004 8:24 pm

I just tried out a black bike wall and it is pretty cool. I've attached my modified wall. It has the colored strip at the top and bottom, segment line, and arrow.

k · Post by k » Tue May 18, 2004 8:43 pm

Try this one out.

Almost pacman dots, but I still need to figure out how to get rid of the 30% transparency of the whole texture. Almost hypnotic at high speeds along another wall.

nicolas.b · Post by **nicolas.b** » Tue May 18, 2004 11:01 pm

sweet, k!

altho when i click on the dots-one to display in another window, it also shows up completely as white, even if the background pane color is not white itself. something fishy is up here... maybe i should GIMP instead of PS...

k · Post by k » Wed May 19, 2004 1:40 am

Here's one with a completely transparent wall and the dots.

I think I'm going to have to make some wall textures to match.