From: Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Allegro - Lit sprites
Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 20:54:20 +0100
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Andrew R. Gillett writes:
>> Then, are your fonts in the correct format for 16-bit color mode?  If
>> you set the background to black instead of the 16-bit reserved
>> background color, the background would be lit!
>
>I just used the TTF2PCX converter to create the fonts.

But how do you get these images into your game? If you imported them as
a font in the grabber, they will be loaded as 256 color data. If you are
loading them yourself, they may or may not have been converted into a 16
bit format depending on how you have set the color conversion mode, but
there is no way that the mask color will be correct because TTF2PCX
output an 8 bit image.

You need to make sure that the graphics are being read in a 16 bit
format, and change the background color to the bright pink (max red and
blue, zero green) transparent marker value.


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