About the PNG support in MMF2.

[VladimirOKB]

Hi, comrades.
I saw information about the next version of another autoring tool which (according to developers) will have full support of PNG format with all it's features.

My question is: Does MMF2 support PNG images with transparency and all it's features?
It would be indeed interesting.

Cheers~

[Looki]

Of course it does support alpha transparency.
You can load pictures at runtime, you can preload them, whatever. Many extensions support transparent PNG's.

[VladimirOKB]

So, MMF2 comes with PNG's support by default? Or it needs some specific extension?

[Jeff]

It should be fine right out of the box and with the latest updates.

Did you try importing one in and seeing what happened?

[Shawn]

I can get png transparency to work just by importing the png into the active object's frames of animation.

It works out of the box.

[VladimirOKB]

Yes, I just gave it a try. It works out of the box as said Shawn.

Thanks!

[Atom]

Exporting on the other hand i don't think we are able to do with transparency, so it's only fully supported on the input side. Is there plans for a decent .png exporter option/extension?

[Yves]

Exporting on the other hand i don't think we are able to do with transparency

Transparency is supported when you export an image in the picture editor. I've just checked it.

[Atom]

I don't mean in the picture editor but the actual app with events and extension etc. So for making image/paint apps for example, maybe im wrong but all the methods i have seen of saving images don't export with transparency. In the picture editor it works great though as you say.

Edit -

Not sure if you have seen it but i posted a few ideas here about saving from frames/layers and a few other things -

http://www.clickteam.com/epicenter/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=138551#Post1385 51

[Shawn]

Well I think that would be more of a limitation of the extensions than a limitation with MMF2. I would think someone could code an extension that would let you save an image to .png and save the alpha channel. Maybe I'm wrong though, I'm not an extension developer.