2022-01-11, 22:54
(2022-01-11, 21:46)beatmasterrs Wrote:(2022-01-11, 21:15)HoleyBoley Wrote: Awesome! It's been ages since I did any photo editing and don't have PS or so installed, but assuming it's just a low opacity layer in a transparent PNG imagine, then we just open it in MS Paint and drag the color values (EDIT 2: I meant thresholds) to 100% black, methinks.
One thing I can't get my head wrapped around at all is how a JPEG could be involved in all this. Those can't be made to be transparent as far as I'm aware. Do you have any insight on how that works?
Thebackground.jpg
, layer 1 has no transparency.
The fanart, layer 2 has a transparency (named "brightness" in skin settings), which you can choose, releated to the home menu layout. In some layouts there is no transparency.
Thefloor.png
, layer 3 has a tranparency or is disabled, related to the home menu layout
I hope, its more clear now.
(2022-01-11, 21:15)HoleyBoley Wrote: EDIT: also, what's the story with the fanart window? Do you remember what you changed back then to make the fanart window capable of showing 100% black?
What do you mean exactly? You could disable the fanart window or set the transparency/brightness to 100%. (Btw: It's more a transparency then brightness, but i thought it would be easier to understand)
Ahh so the Fanart window is a cut-out from floor.png?
Although I don't understand why floor.png is white (with a bit of grey) instead of black (with a bit of grey), I've gone ahead and edited the image. I assume the skin inverts the overlay at some point.
Please note this means that I got rid of the grays in the image by making all the color in the image be transparent 255/255 white (rather than taking them down to 0/255 black as I first intended). Even if it doesn't have the desired effect, it cleans up the overlay nicely in any case, since anything besides 0 black (or apparently inverted 255 white) isn't needed for the overlay effect.
See here:
https://m.imgur.com/a/Wibn67Y
EDIT : direct link because imgur is being a nuisance: https://i.imgur.com/K7in27d.png
EDIT2: NOPE! I just compiled the Textures xbt with the new file and it doesn't help a lot. It looks different and a bit more smooth as regards the OLED grays, but the smudge isn't noticeably better. I think I'm just misunderstanding how the overlay works. It seems the image color isn't inverted like I thought and the white smudge from floor.png seems somehow actually applied on top of the actual darkening effect.
I'm probably gonna experiment a bit more with different floor.png versions, but I don't think it's likely I'll find anything that works.