How did this happen? - Reflections disappear within a thumbnailpanel (1 Viewer)

[eightyf]

Hi,
still stuggling with my first skin project, I stumbled across some strange behaviour in when trying to apply reflections to the thumbs in the thumbnailpanel.
First, there were no reflections at all, then, all of a sudden SOME thumbs have reflections, others don't. I can't reproduce this "oddity" since there is absolutely no recognizable pattern, when the reflections are there or when they are not.
The strange thing is, that it happens within one and the same thumbnail panel (flyipY="true" etc. defined in common.facade.pictures.xml, but it also occured, when I defined it in references.xml)

Any ideas?
Thank you
André

 

[eloo]

Offtopic: But the skin looks interesting, I have always been looking for a black clean looking skin.

 

[Harley]

Hi eightyf,

yes thats a known problem, there are some more problems with the reflektionengine in mp. Also in Filmstripview.
But it is no Problem of the skin, its a problem of the code somewhere.

Would be nice if someone will solve it.

Greetings Harley

 

[eightyf]

eloo
Thank you, well it's not really black, but pretty dark. Previz Screenshots can be found here, but since the layout was based on quite a few reflections combined with alpha masking (both issues, I have problems with) I dunno, if I can realize this the way it was planned.
Harley
hatte sowas befürchtet...
I guess the mentioned problems in filmstrip view also include vanishing Infoimages?
Just to make sure, I am wasting my time on something that is not implemented:

• it is possible to add reflections in thumbnail view? (Actually this is already answered)
• is it possible to add animations (on focus, on unfocus etc.) (I guess so)
• is it possible to mask the thumbnails? (just like the above mentioned reflections are masked with the Thumb_Mask.png).

I've been spending quite an amount of time to implement this, and never really knew (being a total noobie) if something did not work, because I made a mistake, it is not coded or a bug.
Thank you for your time and patience
André

 

[Harley]

Hi eightyf,

yes, it´s possible to add reflektions in thumbnailview, but there some problems at the moment in mp

yes, its possible to add animations by focus and unfocus, works fine

..and masking thumbs are also working.

Greetings Harley

 

[eightyf]

Thank you, Harley.
Is there an example for masking thumbnails.
I thought it should go like this:

<thumbs diffuse="thumb_mask.png"/>

But this doesn't work.. in neither feasible XML file :-(
Thanks
André

 

[Harley]

you can use the control like this:

<control>
<type>image</type>
<posX>637</posX>
<posY>585</posY>
<width>85</width>
<height>86</height>
<texture flipY="true" diffuse="Thumb_Mask.png">#selectedthumb</texture>
</control>

Harley

 

[eightyf]

Thanks Harley,
but this seems to be the code for adding reflections. By taking the flipY parameter out, will this result in masking the thumbnail itself?
André

 

[Harley]

Hi,

the thumb_Mask Stuff is for reflektions.

With the code i have mention, you can add a reflektion to the thumb self.

In the example for the selected thumb.

Greetings Harley

 

[eightyf]

OK, I will give this a try ASAP. Thank you very much
André