I'm using a big sprite outside a window as a backdrop. Its to provide scenery, the illusion of a world outside the narrow window. It works, except the sprite is dark as if unlit, and the dark parts are transparent. I tried setting it to bright. How do I set it so it isn't transparent? Can I do that in WED? What should I set?

Add this in your sprite's action:

my.overlay = off; // gets rid of transparency by black pixels

Either that, or change all areas exactly black to the darkest blue possible, 0, 0, 1, the closest possible to black without actually being black (0, 0, 8 for a 16-bit texture).

Thanks. I didn't write an action for the sprite, I set the overlay off in wed. But I still seem to have show through. I think I'm going to have to lighten the blacks.

I have another question, The big sprite outside turns to face the player, and at a certain angle, it pokes through the wall and shows inside the room. How do I keep it from rotating?

Look up my.oriented, my.facing, and my.decal in the manual for this.

Thanks. I didn't know where to look.

I just searched for "sprite" and looked at the results. I do find having these flags on by default for sprites annoying. All it takes is just going into WED and placing checks as needed when adding sprites that way.