New here, some general questions

[Doctor Toenail]

Does the engine have any MySQL support? And is there an open source version?
Is there a built in quest editor of some kind?
Does it support PNGs?
Does it support alphas?
Can the server side of operations run on a Linux?

Thank you for any answers you can give me. Hope to be part of this community. But would need to be better informed of the capabilities of the engine.

[Scott]

Mysql- By default the engine does not support it but can be converted with not to much effort, look up "vb6 mysql ado"
Quest editor- No but there are tutorials for that
It requires windows to run
Not 100% sure on your other 2 questions so I'll let some one else answer those.

[Chevemalibu]

no,it doesn't support PNGs,they all gotta be 24 bitmaps

[escfoe2]

This whole engine is open source.  Well, as far as I know Eclipse Evolution 2.7 and up is.  As for .PNG's.  If you use
```
Set PictureBox.Picture = LoadPicture("PATH\NAME.EXTENSION")

```Then you should have no problem using different image formats.  Unfortunately, I'm only sure that works for picturebox's :p

[Robin]

You cannot use PNG.

[escfoe2]

For any picturebox used for simply holding an image, you can load a .PNG formatted picture into that control with the code I provided.  I second guessed myself when you said that, but then I tested it and it worked just fine.  Maybe we weren't on the same page?

[Robin]

@escfoe2:

> For any picturebox used for simply holding an image, you can load a .PNG formatted picture into that control with the code I provided.

LoadPicture doesn't support PNG. Is your image even in the PNG format or did you simply change the file extension?