Special effects

[Asuma]

Hi. Is it possible to hex edit the exe to make the effects look this?

Y'know Additive Blend,Multiply, Shader effects in short. Sort of how Hero Fighters has additive blend for it's effects.

[vandesdelca]

Impossible... That's all.

[Asuma]

Even with the source?

[no one]

If you got the source then it could be possible but how can you attain it is a whole different story.

[Som1Lse]

Hi. Is it possible to hex edit the exe to make the effects look this?

Yes but not practical.

It is possible with the source and without.
You can hex edit anything that you can do with programming, but its extremely hard to achieve such a effect.
With the source to LF2 it would be much easier, but then how would you get it?

[Bamboori]

you could actually make use of the transparency filters. won't come out that smooth, but its the best (easiest) method.

[Silverthorn]

Okay, these are the problems:
• full 8-bit transparency is only supported by PNG-files. You'd have to modify the sprite-loading routine to make LF2 actually read the png-files without crashing. Also, as the game works entirely with bitmaps, the display routines need to be changed, too (so that it actually works with png instead of bmp)
• the whole blending routines need to be written from scratch. Getting the alpha-value for each pixel and displaying it correctly. The amount of calculations necessary will probably make the default framerate of LF2 drop by at least 10%.
• LF2 is written in C. Nobody has the source-code, though, and that's why the whole programming-deal has to be done in ASM. The operations that have to be done are already fairly hard to do in C, but ASM is another level higher.

Conclusion:
[mission-impossible]

[TheNave]

you can also just wait for azzys heroquest, in which those effects are easily possible to create

[Madara Uchiha]

Well from what we have established this is impossible. This is the 2nd time I have ever seen this sign@

And it's good to see it.

[Asuma]

Azzy's HeroQuest?