Animation Layer: Mapping

[Odin]

Where is it at… I want to add "realistic" water in my game... But there is not animation layer that everyone is talking about. All i see is Ground Mask Mask2 Fringe and Fringe2\. Thats all. No animation :( so how can I add realistic moving water like in RMVX and RMXP?

[Kinjiru]

What version of eclipse are you using?

[Odin]

2 I believe. The newest, really fancy looking one.

[Sunku]

Well the reason is because the animation layer was taken out of EO2 and it is in Crystalshire DE (which i wouldn't recommend unless you learn direct X8)other than that you can program it in.

[Odin]

Ok. I have CS:DE But i don't know how to use/open it. Theres no "Serve.exe" or "Client.exe" so Im not sure how to do this.

[Sunku]

@Odin:

> Ok. I have CS:DE But i don't know how to use/open it. Theres no "Serve.exe" or "Client.exe" so Im not sure how to do this.

ok you need visual basic 6 at this point from there you right click the client and server.vbp and then click make.

[Odin]

Awesome! Thanks. But… Why would I need to know Direct X or whatever?

[Sunku]

@Odin:

> Awesome! Thanks. But… Why would I need to know Direct X or whatever?

well if you're going to program the graphics system of CS:DE uses direct X8

[Odin]

Oh ok. Where would I get graphics for CS:DE? I used the Eclipse Origins graphics and noticed it only reads png files. Yet, the Pink backcolor isnt transparent. So Whats the deal with the alpha color or whatever?

[Broojo02]

@Odin:

> Oh ok. Where would I get graphics for CS:DE? I used the Eclipse Origins graphics and noticed it only reads png files. Yet, the Pink backcolor isnt transparent. So Whats the deal with the alpha color or whatever?

Yeah the pink will be just pink, to achieve transparency you will have to use a program like gimp or photoshop to add it in, you can just open it up, select the pink with the magic wand and press the delete button :)