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Wintermute Engine => Technical forum => Topic started by: jimm84 on February 21, 2013, 12:13:35 AM
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Hello, sanity check. I have outputted a png sequence ( a water drop ) with a slight opacity and it keeps giving me an "invalid image" error when i go into level edit.
All appears to be fine in the sprite maker and I have used other pngs to make sprites elsewhere - they work. Could anyone give me any clues as to what I could be missing..? is it the opacity of the waterdrop within the PNG causing this issue or is something else?
thanks for your help.
Thanks, :P
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That's weird. You can try export the PNGs from another application in case they are somehow corrupted. Transparency shouldn't cause any issues. If nothing works please upload the PNGs and the sprite file you have generated.
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The problem probably isn't the PNG file itself, but the way it's referenced in the .sprite file. The sprite probably includes some invalid path and the engine cannot find your image. When you see the "invalid image" marker in SceneEdit, try looking at the "SceneEdit.log" file in your project folder. It will contain some error which should tell you more about what went wrong.
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Thank you both! I wandered if it was path issues... or something along those lines. I will have to have a look when I get a minute.
I have placed it in the 'sprites' folder. I was wandering, once you have compiled a sprite, do you need all the pngs (outputted frames from another program) in the same folder as the sprite?
Basically those pngs are elements from which the sprite is created - does the sprite itself need to call those files in the same folder the sprite itself is located?
Thanks,
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the sprites can be in any folder that his created under the data hierarchy, however if you move the .png's then you will have to re-link the paths back to the sprite object.
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Thank you both! I wandered if it was path issues... or something along those lines. I will have to have a look when I get a minute.
I have placed it in the 'sprites' folder. I was wandering, once you have compiled a sprite, do you need all the pngs (outputted frames from another program) in the same folder as the sprite?
Basically those pngs are elements from which the sprite is created - does the sprite itself need to call those files in the same folder the sprite itself is located?
Thanks,
Yes, you still need the PNGs (in whichever path you had them first). Sprite files (and all wme definition files) are text files with links to graphic files (png, tga, etc) and additional settings (all those things you set in sprite editor).
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Hello good members! I think I have amended it somehow but without really knowing why! ::rock
I went about by : when setting up a new sprite, just locating the folder in 'sprites' and not setting it up in 'sprites/foldername' I found this a bit confusing it must be said.
I was also wandering, when in the project manager and you see the little sprite icon on the certain sprite folders and not others, what does this mean? - show me your wisdom!!!! (he screams from the jagged cliffs upon the stormy shores) :-)
Thanks