Makavien420

I have tried just about everything I can think to get this static animation to work and it just wont show up. Here is my code. I put it as the first window piece in my group window. It may be the alpha channel but I just don't get why it would only effect static animations. Oh I use gimp. I have also changed and added the gauge fill, background ,and buttons all with the same settings. Things like an F1 -F6 graphic worked fine as an end cap as soon as I tried to change them to static animations they disappeared. I have never played with the alpha channel so thats all I can think it is.

<TextureInfo item="groupbg.tga">
<Size>
<CX>256</CX>
<CY>256</CY>
</Size>
</TextureInfo>
<Ui2DAnimation item="A_GroupBG">
<Cycle>true</Cycle>
<Grid>False</Grid>
<Vertical>False</Vertical>
<Frames>
<Texture>groupbg.tga</Texture>
<Location>
<X>0</X>
<Y>0</Y>
</Location>
<Size>
<CX>170</CX>
<CY>70</CY>
</Size>
<Hotspot>
<X>0</X>
<Y>0</Y>
</Hotspot>
<Duration>1000</Duration>
</Frames>
</Ui2DAnimation>
<StaticAnimation item="A_Group1_Animation">
<ScreenID>A_Group1_Animation</ScreenID>
<Animation>A_GroupBG</Animation>
<Size>
<CX>170</CX>
<CY>70</CY>
</Size>
<Location>
<X>0</X>
<Y>0</Y>
</Location>
<AutoStretch>True</AutoStretch>
<AutoDraw>True</AutoDraw>
</StaticAnimation>
And here is the tga I used. I tried it as a dds ,tga, deleted and remade the graphic and tried as both again. I also left eq edited it again and saved then reloaded eq.

Attached Files

EQUI_GroupWindow.zip (16.4 KB, 3 views)

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Savok

Did you save the alpha channel as Alpha Channel 1?

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Makavien420

I am not real sure about the alpha channel I have tried adding the image to it and also just deleting it turns the background to white so no I would say not

Savok

You have to save the alpha layer as Alpha Channel 1 or it won't be seen in game. Try this tga file and see if it works.

Attached Files

groupbg.zip (6.3 KB, 2 views)

valaury3169

I am not sure if you figured it out yet, but I noticed that you have <AutoStretch> set to true, which means it ignores <Size> and <Location> and uses <LeftAnchorOffset> etc. Since those are not defined, all of those values are 0 (effectively making your piece 0px by 0px sitting at 0,0).

I will say though, that the fact that you have the True capitalized in <Autostretch> usually is interpreted by the EQ parser as false anyway, so I am not sure if that is actually your issue.

I looked at your tga in Photoshop, and everything appears to be fine from what I can see.

Makavien420

yes I actually set that to true just before as a last attempt.

Makavien420

ok ?I added that and it worked but ?I also put the lower case false and the lower case true in the autodraw ? you think it could of been the autodraw ?

valaury3169

Honestly, I am not familiar with autodraw, and I am not sure what affects that property would help you achieve(in the case of it being false), but looking at the SIDL.doc, I found "Have this piece automatically appear (as opposed to having the code programmatically choose to draw it)" as the definition, and the default is true.

I do not know if the EQ Parser treats all uppercase as false, or as missing (meaning it will take the default).

I have observered specifically on AutoStretch and LeftAnchorToLeft (etc) that "False", "True" and "false" are all parsed as false, only "true" is parsed as true. However, the default for autostretch is false.

If the parser is universal, then the value you posted of "True" should have been ignored, but whether it is considered automatically false, or automatically whatever the default is, I do not know.

Going by the description of that property, though, it does indeed sound like it may have been your culprit.

This is, of course, assuming I understood you correctly that you got your staticanimation to show correctly.

Makavien420

Yeap shows fine from savoks file so not sure which fixed it I will find out here later on when I go to add the f2-f6 animations