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Help & Guidance => Member Made Tutorials => Miscellaneous Tutorials => Topic started by: VortexAlive on June 18, 2020, 05:10:57 am

Title: Fixing Missing Chatbox Background
Post by: VortexAlive on June 18, 2020, 05:10:57 am

Ever had a moment where your background for your chat was completely missing?

I'm sure many have seen it at some point... It looks like this:
(https://i.imgur.com/9BuzFJx.png)

Well it turns out to be quite a simple fix!
Just edit panelCenter.png with paint and resize the image from 1x1 to 8x8!
(https://i.imgur.com/lhEkDjb.png)

and voila! It should now look like this:
(https://i.imgur.com/G2spDPJ.png)

Have fun! :D

Title: Re: Fixing Missing Chatbox Background
Post by: Dark_heart on June 18, 2020, 07:38:27 am

Thank you so much! My genius Feral Heart windows are invincible sometimes. Thanks!

Title: Re: Fixing Missing Chatbox Background
Post by: G4RG0YLE on June 18, 2020, 09:45:29 am

This will be helpful to some users who find difficulty in reading messages when looking up at the sky, particularly when they do so to multi-tab.
Good work.

Title: Re: Fixing Missing Chatbox Background
Post by: Dentrimental on June 18, 2020, 10:23:01 am

Oo i have this! Thanks!

Title: Re: Fixing Missing Chatbox Background
Post by: LadySigyn on June 18, 2020, 10:24:15 am

Thank you for this tutorial, Vortex! <3 I know that this usually happens when I use OpenGL so even switching rendering systems can help with this too.

Title: Re: Fixing Missing Chatbox Background
Post by: VortexAlive on June 18, 2020, 07:45:20 pm

Aye, mine happened from using OpenGL as well, this will fix it for either rendering subsystem. No more missing backgrounds. c:

Title: Re: Fixing Missing Chatbox Background
Post by: Morgra on June 18, 2020, 08:05:40 pm

A proper fix for this has been needed for some time now. Thanks for sharing, Vortex!

Title: Re: Fixing Missing Chatbox Background
Post by: DylanCheetah on June 19, 2020, 02:22:53 am

Thanks Vortex! I have experienced this issue before too. I know that it only occurs with the OpenGL renderer and I actually figured out why. When I was writing my own game engine, I noticed that OpenGL requires the width and height of all textures to be powers of 2. Which is obviously what is causing that issue. All of the textures need to have dimensions that are powers of 2 in order for them to work properly with Ogre's OpenGL renderer. For some reason, Direct3D doesn't seem to care...

Title: Re: Fixing Missing Chatbox Background
Post by: Garfield. on June 19, 2020, 02:25:55 am

I still haven't got this issue with it sure will be helpful to me in a future and sure for other floofs who experience it. ^^

Title: Re: Fixing Missing Chatbox Background
Post by: Dentrimental on June 19, 2020, 07:41:50 am

uhm.. so when i clikc 'resize' i cant put in 1x1 or 1 x 1  i can only do 11 and width 11. why..? can u help me out with this as the stupid editing thing always gets on my nerves on purpose.

Title: Re: Fixing Missing Chatbox Background
Post by: VortexAlive on June 19, 2020, 06:20:29 pm

open panelCenter.png with paint and click the resize button, then set it up like this:
(https://i.imgur.com/BHgwe4D.png)

Title: Re: Fixing Missing Chatbox Background
Post by: Oddonelynx on June 19, 2020, 07:46:04 pm

Finally a fix for OpenLG