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#1 2009-05-17 08:23:35
Blur effect in the Paint Editor
I'm halfway through making a sniper game, and wanted a vignette effect, like you see in sniper's rifles. I tried going into photoshop, making a 240*180 circle, and gaussian blurring it. When I import it to scratch, it is just a circle! When I use the gradient fill with black and check (transparent) IT's all just black.
Can someone help?
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#2 2009-05-17 11:02:38
- MyRedNeptune
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Re: Blur effect in the Paint Editor
Yeah, quite annoying, I agree. Scratch does not support half-transparent colors.
So you will have to add a solid background under the circle, for the gaussian blur effect to be visible, but for your case that wouldn't do.
I suggest creating several different-sized circle sprites on top one another in Scratch and setting their ghost effect to different values so that it appears as if it is a circle with blurred edges. It's not gonna look that good but it's better than nothing.
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#3 2009-05-17 13:24:32
Re: Blur effect in the Paint Editor
djmoomoo wrote:
I'm halfway through making a sniper game, and wanted a vignette effect, like you see in sniper's rifles. I tried going into photoshop, making a 240*180 circle, and gaussian blurring it. When I import it to scratch, it is just a circle! When I use the gradient fill with black and check (transparent) IT's all just black.
Can someone help?
Yes, that's a problem with Scratch - it only supports completely transparent and solid. Unfortunately, I don't see the Scratch team improving upon this in the near future, so I guess we just have to live with it. (By the way, take MyRedNeptune's suggestions.)
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#5 2009-05-18 11:52:18
- MyRedNeptune
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Re: Blur effect in the Paint Editor
djmoomoo wrote:
Thanks!
You are very welcome!
And' I'll move this to All About Scratch.
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