how to use fade

[craiganderson]

hello

on american laser games

i would like to have a pic of my controller be shown as game is loading.

would i do this through the fade functions?

im messing around with it right now.

put an image in hyperlaunch/media/fade/American Laser Games/layer 4 (1).png

am i on the right track?

thanks

craig

[bleasby]

More or less, but you are on the right path.

You should use the layer 2 instead, as it is intended for static images.

The layer 4 is intended to be used on animations or gif images. Not that you can't use it, but things will be faster and more reliable renaming your image to the layer 2.

Basically, from the layer bottom to top, the layers are:

Layer 1 - Background image

Layer 2 - Static image above background

Layer 3 - Animated image (the tipical now loading image)

Layer 4 - Sequential Animated image (the default hl rocket launch logo) (can be a gif image, not recomended due to the dumb transparent support and sometimes high cpu using, or a series of images named one after another that will be show as an animation)

The extraction progress bar will be draw on layer 3.

These are the default layers of the fade animation that I created.

To anyone that wants to have more control on the fade animations, you could set as much layers as you want, but you are going to need to create your own fade animation code for that.