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Game Creation => GameMaker => Topic started by: Gnome on April 25, 2008, 09:59:31 PM

Title: Text
Post by: Gnome on April 25, 2008, 09:59:31 PM
Does anyone know how to make text in the picure area of GM? I've tried many, but they convert weird. (White pixels around the text)
Title: Re: Text
Post by: Tireas Dragon on April 25, 2008, 10:24:23 PM
If you look at text closely you can see that it is not completly black. It is black in the middle but it is grayish on the outside. You should try copying the spot where you want the text, paste it into appleworks, then use the text tool in appleworks to write your text. Thats how I do it anyway.
Title: Re: Text
Post by: alias on April 26, 2008, 06:50:55 AM
Or if you have photoshop you can save it for web. Thus it has an invisible background and looks normal.
Title: Re: Text
Post by: EqwanoX on April 27, 2008, 09:02:14 AM
cant you use the popwindow command?
Title: Re: Text
Post by: Gnome on April 27, 2008, 09:41:02 AM
Like for a title, I'm trying to make a game called "Why We Fight" The title screen has a guy facing you and in the background there's a city on fire. It's nearly all black until you see the title, with has stray pixels around it, even when it's transparent.
Title: Re: Text
Post by: Al Staffieri on April 27, 2008, 10:09:24 AM
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Like for a title, I'm trying to make a game called "Why We Fight" The title screen has a guy facing you and in the background there's a city on fire. It's nearly all black until you see the title, with has stray pixels around it, even when it's transparent.

There must be a few non-white pixels that are very close to being white, so you can't tell by looking at it against a white background. Then you make it transparent, but those few pixels won't be transparent. Against a black background it's now noticeable.

I would try pasting the picture back into Photoshop or whatever you used and make sure it's white all around.