Flare on Panels? Alpha channels on panels...

Posted By: xXxGuitar511

Flare on Panels? Alpha channels on panels... - 05/27/06 18:56

Sorry if this is the wrong place to post this, it was the best place I could think of at the moment...

I am creating a lighting "special effect", and I am using panels for flares. My problem is that I need the edges of the images to fade away, like the flare effect does. However, the flare effect isn't available to panels, so I now need to find another way to do this.

I thought about just positioning the sprite in the world, but I need it to appear over all other entities. I tried using an alpha channel, but it's just not working for me (I'm probably not doing it right).

Does anyone know any good way to do this?
Posted By: Loopix

Re: Flare on Panels? Alpha channels on panels... - 05/27/06 21:19

This should be possible with view entities...but with panels???
Posted By: xXxGuitar511

Re: Flare on Panels? Alpha channels on panels... - 05/27/06 21:54

Damn... I forgot about view entities. I've never really used them before, but one time. Thankz Loopix!

View entities can be created through ent_create right?
I need to be able to create the flares at runtime...
Posted By: MMike

Re: Flare on Panels? Alpha channels on panels... - 05/14/08 23:27

any lens flare contribution using view entities? since im having dificulties
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