Shadow and highlight

[RedAngel]

Hello everybody,
I am doing a tiny demo with a screen that display more than 64 colours (69 at the moment), and I would like to know how to display sprites and tiles in other priorities. I have a raster effect to have more back drop colours (a la SNES), two sprites and two pictures that I would like to display in shadow and highlight mode to get even more colours on screen.

[RedAngel]

Does anybody knows how to use shadow and highlight mode?

[ScroGer]

I wish that I could help you RedAngel but I'm not that advanced with graphic's and I'd like to know how to do that myself but I wish you luck with that

[RedAngel]

Hi Scroger, nice tutorials . The documentation is a bit empty in some areas and while I could do a raster effect to have a gradient in the background I still have to find out how to use shadow and highlight mode . But thanks for your reply .

[ScroGer]

RedAngel said:

Hi Scroger, nice tutorials .

Thank's RedAngle

The documentation is a bit empty in some areas

Yeah I made the first tut months ago and it is very inaccurate I will be updating it soon thoe

and while I could do a raster effect to have a gradient in the background I still have to find out how to use shadow and highlight mode . But thanks for your reply .

I'm not sure what you mean when you say gradient and shadow and highlight mode

If what you mean when u say gradient, or graduated fill, is a color fill that gradually blends from one color to another like this graphicssoft.about.com/od/glossary/g/gradient.htm or this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradient then I can help you it's not hard at all but maybe u speak of somthine else

As for shadow and highlight mode from what I'v read they seem to be the same thing as gradient.......

Peace

[RedAngel]

Your tutorials are nice the BasiEgaXorz doc is empty in some areas (specially the new features), sorry I didn´t explain it properly.
With the raster I was able to use several line of colours in the back drop colour, and you can put one colour from very dark to very light and from one colour to another one (the colours of the sky for example). In shadow mode you can darken your colours a 50% so you obtain more colours on screen at the same time. At the moment I have 75 colours! but with shadow and highlight mode I may have more than 100 .

[GiGaBiTe]

There are ways to raster the screen so that you can get somewhere around 2500 colors, but I don't think that you would be able to do anything complex while displaying that many colors.