Rendered sprite without removing surrounding pixels:
This is the output I would like to achieve:
Thanks for any suggestions or help.
How to filter out common color around object within rectangle?
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I am currently working on a 2D game where spritesheets are obtained through memory in .pak files. The images are .bmp files and the sprites render correctly, except for the fact the background/unused color/pixels around the sprite appears, as expected; however, I want to be able to remove the background pixels like such:
Rendered sprite without removing surrounding pixels:
This is the output I would like to achieve:
Thanks for any suggestions or help.
Rendered sprite without removing surrounding pixels:
This is the output I would like to achieve:
Thanks for any suggestions or help.
It sounds like you should be using the alpha channel instead of a solid background color. This also allows nicely antialiased sprite edges.
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It would be good to have alpha based sprites, however I am currently working on an old mmorpg and converting everything to Direct X 9. The game achieves this through their own procedure with DirectDraw7 to render the finalized sprites. I was just wondering if there was any simpler way to do this in Direct X 9 instead of following the same procedure as the old game code. If I can find the code where they do this I will post it, but for now does anyone have any other alternatives other than creating an alpha channel in all the sprites? (because there is about 1000 sprite sheets and I want to refrain from creating alpha channels for them all for obvious reasons).
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I was thinking of using texture filtering but I am unsure if this will achieve what I am looking for. Can someone verify?
On a side note: all the sprites have no anti-aliasing with the background color so it can be easily separated from the object within the sprite, but I am unsure of a procedure at the moment.
On a side note: all the sprites have no anti-aliasing with the background color so it can be easily separated from the object within the sprite, but I am unsure of a procedure at the moment.
Legacy code/assets. Sounds fun. ;) I guess you could filter out that specific background color on a per-pixel basis, but... why? My suggestion would be write a quick conversion tool that loops through a directory, loads each file, replaces that color with transparent, then saves the file in a new location.
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Legacy code/assets. Sounds fun. ;) I guess you could filter out that specific background color on a per-pixel basis, but... why? My suggestion would be write a quick conversion tool that loops through a directory, loads each file, replaces that color with transparent, then saves the file in a new location.
Its not only one specific color... because a sprite can have any color. So the background color must be always completely different than the objects that a sprite contains in order for the background to be easily filtered out which limits that approach.
I will look into chroma-keying as LancerSolurus suggested.
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Use chroma-keying, it's supported by DX 9
This appears to be a very reliable option especially since the background is only one color per sprite. I am doing my research now, but if you have any resources you can link to me, that would speed things up a lot for me. Thanks!
I also think this is performance-friendly since the gpu loads all the sprites before the game starts, I will be able to create an alpha channel for all the pixels processed through chroma-keying. But for now, like I said, I will be doing some research and if you have any links to site(s) that explain the process or any approaches to accomplish this that would be great!
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Here is some code that I promised (I am not sure if this will achieve what I want, I tried to show all the highlights from the old source code that I am converting to Direct X 9... hopefully I got the right stuff):
If anything highlights what I am trying to achieve, please let me know as I am unfimiliar with the functions processed with all this code. I am sorry and hate to just pile stuff on everyone but I am sure an experienced coder can just schim through without even reading to recognize when pixels are being removed or replaced that would most likely be removing a background color around an object within a sprite.
This is where all the bitmap image data is read:
This is where the Off Screen Surface is created:
Before the sprite(surface) is rendered, this is called:
This renders the sprite in the end:
Thanks for your patience and support.
If anything highlights what I am trying to achieve, please let me know as I am unfimiliar with the functions processed with all this code. I am sorry and hate to just pile stuff on everyone but I am sure an experienced coder can just schim through without even reading to recognize when pixels are being removed or replaced that would most likely be removing a background color around an object within a sprite.
This is where all the bitmap image data is read:
IDirectDrawSurface7 * CSprite::_pMakeSpriteSurface()
{
IDirectDrawSurface7 * pdds4;
HDC hDC;
WORD * wp;
m_bOnCriticalSection = TRUE;
if( m_stBrush == NULL ) return NULL;
CMyDib mydib(m_cPakFileName, m_dwBitmapFileStartLoc); // Reads bitmap data/info
m_wBitmapSizeX = mydib.m_wWidthX; // image width
m_wBitmapSizeY = mydib.m_wHeightY; // image height
pdds4 = m_pDDraw->pCreateOffScreenSurface(m_wBitmapSizeX, m_wBitmapSizeY);
if (pdds4 == NULL) return NULL;
pdds4->GetDC(&hDC);
mydib.PaintImage(hDC);
pdds4->ReleaseDC(hDC);
DDSURFACEDESC2 ddsd;
ddsd.dwSize = 124;
if (pdds4->Lock(NULL, &ddsd, DDLOCK_WAIT, NULL) != DD_OK) return NULL;
pdds4->Unlock(NULL);
wp = (WORD *)ddsd.lpSurface;
m_wColorKey = *wp;
m_bOnCriticalSection = FALSE;
return pdds4;
}
This is where the Off Screen Surface is created:
IDirectDrawSurface7 * DXC_ddraw::pCreateOffScreenSurface(WORD wSzX, WORD wSzY)
{
DDSURFACEDESC2 ddsd;
IDirectDrawSurface7 * pdds4;
ZeroMemory(&ddsd, sizeof(ddsd));
if ((wSzX % 4) != 0) wSzX += 4 - (wSzX % 4);
ddsd.dwSize = sizeof(ddsd);
ddsd.dwFlags = DDSD_CAPS | DDSD_HEIGHT |DDSD_WIDTH;
ddsd.ddsCaps.dwCaps = DDSCAPS_OFFSCREENPLAIN | DDSCAPS_SYSTEMMEMORY;
ddsd.dwWidth = (DWORD)wSzX;
ddsd.dwHeight = (DWORD)wSzY;
if (m_lpDD4->CreateSurface(&ddsd, &pdds4, NULL) != DD_OK) return NULL;
return pdds4;
}
Before the sprite(surface) is rendered, this is called:
bool CSprite::_iOpenSprite()
{
if (m_lpSurface != NULL) return FALSE;
m_lpSurface = _pMakeSpriteSurface(); // image data read and surface created
if (m_lpSurface == NULL) return FALSE;
m_pDDraw->iSetColorKey(m_lpSurface, m_wColorKey);
m_bIsSurfaceEmpty = FALSE;
DDSURFACEDESC2 ddsd;
ddsd.dwSize = 124;
if (m_lpSurface->Lock(NULL, &ddsd, DDLOCK_WAIT, NULL) != DD_OK) return FALSE;
m_pSurfaceAddr = (WORD *)ddsd.lpSurface;
m_sPitch = (short)ddsd.lPitch >> 1;
m_lpSurface->Unlock(NULL);
return TRUE;
}
HRESULT DXC_ddraw::iSetColorKey(IDirectDrawSurface7 * pdds4, WORD wColorKey)
{
DDCOLORKEY ddck;
ddck.dwColorSpaceLowValue = _dwColorMatch(pdds4, wColorKey);
ddck.dwColorSpaceHighValue = ddck.dwColorSpaceLowValue;
return pdds4->SetColorKey(DDCKEY_SRCBLT, &ddck);
}
DWORD DXC_ddraw::_dwColorMatch(IDirectDrawSurface7 * pdds4, WORD wColorKey)
{
DWORD dw = CLR_INVALID, * dwp;
DDSURFACEDESC2 ddsd2;
HRESULT hres;
ddsd2.dwSize = sizeof(ddsd2);
while ((hres = pdds4->Lock(NULL, &ddsd2, 0, NULL)) == DDERR_WASSTILLDRAWING);
if (hres == DD_OK)
{
dwp = (DWORD *)ddsd2.lpSurface;
*dwp = (DWORD)wColorKey;
dw = *(DWORD *)ddsd2.lpSurface;
dw &= (1 << ddsd2.ddpfPixelFormat.dwRGBBitCount)-1;
pdds4->Unlock(NULL);
}
return dw;
}
This renders the sprite in the end:
m_pDDraw->m_lpBackB4->BltFast( dX, dY, m_lpSurface, &rcRect, DDBLTFAST_SRCCOLORKEY | DDBLTFAST_WAIT );
Thanks for your patience and support.
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I believe the solution I need to achieve this is through color keying hense all the variations of (colorkey) variable names in the code I just posted, lol. Heres is a similar thread I found here on these forums; however, it is based on OpenGL: http://www.gamedev.net/topic/419337-opengl-and-sprites/
Any suggestions or guidance is appreciated as I continue to research color keying.
Thanks a lot for all your help.
Any suggestions or guidance is appreciated as I continue to research color keying.
Thanks a lot for all your help.
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