Solved Is it possible to swap backgrounds without loading a different stage?
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You can't swap the native background or the panels, but you can swap the layers all you want. All you need to do is ignore background and build your stage with
fglayer instead. Not only can you swap them, you can even do animation.Animated Background Layers
This tutorial comes highly requested, sorry for taking so long to get around to it. Hope it helps you! OpenBOR does not natively support animated background layers. Or does it? The neon feature, palette cycling, auto scroll, and water transform can all be combined to create some pretty...
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Thanks @DCurrent ,
What I'm currently doing is using a new entity as a background and setting the "set layer " option to a value that overlaps my current background and use a quick flash or screen transition to "swap" backgrounds. I have noticed that using moving fglayers can significantly slow down my module. But I haven't tested still fglayers, so I will try that and see how it goes.
What I'm currently doing is using a new entity as a background and setting the "set layer " option to a value that overlaps my current background and use a quick flash or screen transition to "swap" backgrounds. I have noticed that using moving fglayers can significantly slow down my module. But I haven't tested still fglayers, so I will try that and see how it goes.
I'd like to see your layer images. I hear complaints about slowdown sometimes, but it's almost inevitably due to poor optimization. I have over 20 moving layers in some projects I'm working on, with several of them using affine transform, and there's not even a hint of slowdown.
Often times you will get better performance from more layers, not less, if it means you can break them into smaller pieces with less areas of transpareny the engine can't trim. I'm talking about the fully transparent areas, not alpha blending.
DC
Often times you will get better performance from more layers, not less, if it means you can break them into smaller pieces with less areas of transpareny the engine can't trim. I'm talking about the fully transparent areas, not alpha blending.
DC
I've used your tutorial to optimize the png layers or backgrounds. Link below.
Switch palette colors help or make .gif files not transparent
Hello Guys, I'm trying to make a fglayer (using a .gif) file but I keep making the rookie mistake of my palette making one of the most popular colors be transparent as seen in the screen shot attached I would rather choose the bright turquoise color (circled in red) but I don't know how. Or I...
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I currently don't have any background layers I'm working on but I usually follow the tutorial from that link to optimize my backgrounds, sprites, ect.
I have a feeling that the reason why I suffer from slow down using fglayers is probably because I'm using the double dragon reloaded module and Everything is 2X resolution.
