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Particles excluded from View Transparency?

Nephilaine Protagonist
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Join date: 22 Jul 2003
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08-11-2004 18:29
I've noticed that when using particles, they show up as a mass of red through which nothing else is visible when the view transparency option is on.
This gets really difficult when shooting pictures, as the positioner being used to pose is really hard to find through the fog of sprites.
Could particles be excluded from the View Transparency option?
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Catherine Omega
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08-11-2004 18:37
I'm confused. Why do you need View Transparency to shoot pictures? Couldn't you just turn particles off in Debug?
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Pete Fats
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08-11-2004 18:51
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FlipperPA Peregrine
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08-13-2004 11:13
Same with clouds - you can turn 'em off, but its impossible to see anything by default. It would be nice to have it off by default.

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Re: Particles excluded from View Transparency?
08-13-2004 14:26
From: someone
Originally posted by Nephilaine Protagonist
I've noticed that when using particles, they show up as a mass of red through which nothing else is visible when the view transparency option is on.
This gets really difficult when shooting pictures, as the positioner being used to pose is really hard to find through the fog of sprites.
Could particles be excluded from the View Transparency option?


I think this is a bad idea. What's stopping GrieferBoi Lippmann from putting 10,000 transparent transparent-particle emitters on your land? It would be an almost impossible-to-locate grief.

If you dont want the particles to be displayed in view transparency, simply disable their rendering via the debug menu.