I am creating a dialogue window, with some similarities to GITS.
I plan to have the two participants portraits at the top and bottom of the screen. I want to create an effect, a rectangle that starts black behind the image portrait and fades as it goes away from it.
I am using the blend tool of GIMP to crate the image with the effect I want. I add transparency in its background and I have the result I want.
I create a window and then a static area with the size of my image. But, trying to add the image seems to have no results. The image path (interface/dialogue/dialoge.png) is added but I cannot see the image.
My questions are:
1)Does Wintermute support this or do I have to use a workaround?
2)How should I export the image in GIMP so that Wintermute can handle such effects? (so far I have been trying .png, since .jpg cannot handle transparency).