Splash Screen with masked image
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| I can't remember where this topic came up, but it got me thinking about tutorials etc. and I whipped this up. It shows you how to make a splash screen that shows a highlight running across a piece of text. It uses a mask image so as not to 'bleed' the highlight outside the text. The PDF is here if anyone is interested. Resources for the project can be downloaded here. |
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| Nice. for a variation on this effect, you can have an outlined font -- then draw the outlined font, reflection bar, and a non-outlined version on top of that, so the effect only moved across the edges of the text as a highlight. |
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| Interesting effect. I would change the blending from ALPHABLEND to LIGHTBLEND (which is the "add" mode), perhaps it'll look more realistic. |
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I didn't notice much difference using LIGHTBLEND. but here's the change anyway:SetBlend ALPHABLEND Or LIGHTBLEND DrawImage highlight, hx, hy SetBlend ALPHABLEND The line is a bit thicker when just LIGHTBLEND is used, but I think that's because it loses the alpha. I could make the highlight graphic a little more transparent which might help too. SetBlend LIGHTBLEND DrawImage highlight, hx, hy SetBlend ALPHABLEND |
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| Thanks for this. I'll have a tinker later as I've been thinking ideas on how to make splash screens more interesting. |
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