Slick Transparent Color

[coltonoscopy]

Hey, everybody!

I'm having a slight problem using Slick and getting transparent colors working with SpriteSheets and Animations. Here's the code I have to load a SpriteSheet and create two Animations from it in my game engine:

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/*      * Loads sprites for all creature-based entities, including the player, and compiles their animations.      */     public void loadCreatureSprites()     {         // spritesheet to hold all of the player's frames        SpriteSheet sheet = null;                 try         {             sheet = new SpriteSheet("resources/images/playersheet.png", 60, 72, new Color(Vast.COLOR_KEY));         }         catch (SlickException ex)         {             ex.printStackTrace();         }                 Animation playerAnim1 = new Animation(sheet, 80);         Animation playerAnim2 = new Animation();                 for (int i = 0; i < playerAnim1.getFrameCount(); i++)         {             playerAnim2.addFrame(playerAnim1.getImage(i).getFlippedCopy(true, false), 80);         }         // create creature sprites        playerSprite = new Player(playerAnim2, playerAnim1, playerAnim1, playerAnim1);     }

The Animations load and play when I move about, but the color around the images that I've designated as a key still shows up (it's a bright pink color, whose hex value is defined in a separate class called Vast, hence Vast.COLOR_KEY). I'm not sure if there's something I'm missing here, but I would really like to use Slick's Animations and SpriteSheets rather than having to roll my own because of this color key issue, and if I try and give my .png images their own alpha channels to circumvent the issue, the alpha just loads as black in the game.

Thanks a lot for your help! :]

Colton

[davedes]

Slick's "transparent color" parameter is bugged in the latest code.

If you have photoshop, GIMP or Paint.NET you should be able to pretty easily remove the color and save it as a transparent PNG.

[coltonoscopy]

davedes,

I understand. However, I tried implementing an alpha channel in an image I exported, but loading the SpriteSheet with Slick results in the image filling in all of the "transparent" color with black. Is there a fix that you know of for this? Thank you for your time!

Colton