Display getting darker

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ClaudeClaus(Posted 2005) [#1]
Hello,

I'm using BlitzMax 1.09 Demo under MacOS 10.4 and something weird happens with my game. I first display a start menu where the colours are bright, but when I choose the "play" option the game starts and the colours get all dark, as if the screen brightness was tuned down. And then it stays dark, even when I get back to the menu. (Both fullscreen and window mode)

Any idea why this happens ?

Thanks,
Klaus


Scott Shaver(Posted 2005) [#2]
make sure you are resetting the alpha, blend and color values to something like this:

SetBlend(ALPHABLEND)
SetColor(255,255,255)
SetAlpha(1)

remember that the ogl states affect all drawing commands that follow them.


ClaudeClaus(Posted 2005) [#3]
Thanks Scott for your quick answer.

You've pointed me in the right direction and I've found what the problem was: I'm drawing the playfield with rectangles, lines and dots and the last color used is 128,128,128.

Well, moving from Blitz2D to BlitzMax is no easy thing for sure...