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[Energy]

Hey all,
I'm using a graphics.h that has some pretty useful functions in, and one of the features is to get a pixel color on the screen. This is perfect for what I need. It returns a value in the type Color...

typedef u32 Color;

Now what I want to do is give each colour a red tint, so tone down Green and Blue and bring up the Red. How would I do this?

Thanks for any help.

[CyberBill]

You're going about it all the wrong way. Instead of manually getting each pixel, manipulating its values, and setting it back, which would be HORRENDOUSLY slow, do this:

Make a quad, color it red, give it an alpha channel of like 40% or whatever, and draw it over your entire screen after your done drawing everything else.

Letting the hardware do it is literally a million times faster.

[Energy]

[CyberBill]

It just relies on having both a 'material color' and an alpha blended texture.

The texture is of the explosion with an alpha mask, and then you can just make the textured quad get bigger over the course of 250ms or so, while also reducing the alpha of the material color. (So that the material color goes from 0xFFFFFFFF to 0x00FFFFFF).

I'm not exactly sure how to set it up, but I'm sure theres a sample of it... it'll also take a little bit of fooling around with to get it working right.

Experiment with it long enough and you'll figure it out. :)

[Energy]