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Title: Overlays for Vector game ex. Armour Attack
Post by: divemaster127 on May 12, 2005, 11:39:56 am

Hello, I have done everything I can think of get the overlay for armour attack to work, the default that comes with the artwork, is 1064 x 720 in a png file, i have changed this to a jpg & re sized to my screen size 800 x 600 & still no go, so i tried 640 x 480 in jpg & png still no go, does anyone know what im doing wrong
thanks
gary

Title: Re: Overlays for Vector game ex. Armour Attack
Post by: jcrouse on May 12, 2005, 10:08:26 pm

Vectrex Overlays are a tricky thing. First, they are PNG files for a reason. That being that PNG supports transparent backgrounds and JPG's don't. You files NEED to be PNG format. For instance, without the transparency wou'll never see the tank in Armor Attack. I have a complete set on my website under downloads/vectrex. The website is http://home.comcast.net/~cpviewer . I don't know why you would need to resize them but if you do I would suggest using a program that natively opens and saves PNG files such as Adobe Photoshop.

Good Luck,
John