Publishing Change ? - Blank images are now showing up as black boxes

Portyman

It was reported a while back

BazookaTime

@BazookaTime @luislopezcom

If the problem you're having is this:

Basically all actors that use a fully transparent image appear completely black

I would ask why you're using fully transparent images in the first place. Why not just use self.color.alpha=0 to hide an actor?

Thats one question, the other question would be why hasn't this been fixed yet? From the posts above looks like they have had bug reports since August.

GibberSalad

What version of the Creator are you using? Thanks for the info!

adent42

Okay here is the lowdown:

- If you are using nightly, we had an issue with transparency and this blackbox problem. This is fixed. (We started running optipng on the images to help your games load faster. I had to tweak the options a bit to not corrupt the images for iOS).

- For stable, the source of the issue our pngcrush implementation. pngcrush is an optimization that formats a png for fast loading in iOS. For some png files, the image is interpreted in such a way that it generates a black file instead of a completely transparent png.

We're still looking for a fix. In most cases if you turn off resolution independence, it will work fine. (The R.I. checkbox tells us to generate half sized images for faster loading on non-retina devices. If you don't check it, the game will work fine on non-retina devices, they will just take longer to load the larger image they aren't using).

tatiang

Thanks for the explanation, @adent42.

quantumsheep

I'm not sure if it's related, but I've been having an issue with a few games where the transparent elements are being 'filled in' while looking at the game in creator.

For example, a transparent box with a white border now just appears as a white square as the transparent bits aren't working.

I've managed to fix this by:

In your game, select the offending image in the graphics tab.

Double click it and it should open up automatically in preview (this is on a mac)

In preview, simply go to 'adjust size', don't change anything, and click ok.

Then save or close preview.

The image now works fine

It's a hassle, but it's fixable, if anyone's having the same problems!

QS =D

SingleSparq

I'm not sure if it's related, but I've been having an issue with a few games where the transparent elements are being 'filled in' while looking at the game in creator.

For example, a transparent box with a white border now just appears as a white square as the transparent bits aren't working.

I've managed to fix this by:

In your game, select the offending image in the graphics tab.

Double click it and it should open up automatically in preview (this is on a mac)

In preview, simply go to 'adjust size', don't change anything, and click ok.

Then save or close preview.

The image now works fine

It's a hassle, but it's fixable, if anyone's having the same problems!

QS =D

I found some of my images were index and not RGB that had that problem. RGB fixem up.

quantumsheep

I found some of my images were index and not RGB that had that problem. RGB fixem up.

Naughty, NAUGHTY images!

Naughty!

QS =D

luislopezcom

will try unchecking Resolution Independence by now. Please notify when there´s a solution for this
thanks

luislopezcom

unchecking Res. independence solved the issue for me. Also looks better on non-retina devices