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mmm I understand the outline will be visible. I am more trying to reproduce the soft shadow effect I see on the dagger example on the page of this plugging, but for me it is looking different. It is like the gradiant is only being applied to the outside border of the outline, instead of the entire width of the outline. Lets say the width of the outline is 20px, the gradiant seems to only apply to the last 5pixels of the outline.

As for applying the transform on a proxy, let me try that and see if it changes the behavior of the outline. Thanks!

Feniks313 days ago

I am looking into the possibility of alternate blending methods, and if I land on something I like I'll update the listing with a devlog noting the changes :)

manuelifeno313 days ago

Thanks! Only thing I can say right now looking at the code is that it seems the current blending is depending on the scale of the image, instead of the outline width. That is probably why if I apply the outline after the existing transformation or before it changes the smoothness of the border. (my characters are zoomed out so the scale changes quite a bit). I still have to try the proxy transformation. That might solve my issues as it applies the outline transform after my zoom transform.

Feniks312 days ago

Oh I think I understand what you mean now - yes order of operations matters. If you apply the shader to a zoomed image, the outline won't be zoomed. If you apply the shader and then zoom the image, the outline gets zoomed as well. You can see the property order here: https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/atl.html#property-order So if you want to go out of order, you'll have to make an image that's got the shader already applied and then zoom that, for example.

manuelifeno312 days ago

That is awesome information! Thank you!

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