Three questions:

1. How do you make a red shield bar?
2. How do you make it so that it increases(or better yet fades in) instead of decreases?
3. Can you make a 1024x1024 shield bar to fill your whole screen(in which it's supposed to fade in)?

1: You can either color it red in the RGB or color it red in the tags.
2: I dont believe thats possible, maybe through overlaying different shieldbars on top of each other
3: No, because the maximum size a sprite can be is 512x512. But you can increase the scale in the tags.

can i has many sheeld bars pl0x? You mentioned overlaying shield bars, so I thought there was a way to have multiple ones rather than make one which covers the whole screen... And I thought white was blue, you can color it red instead of white?

Are You going for a call of duty 5 or gears of war type of thing? that would be cool.

Yes.

I'm trying to get Photoshop to work, else I'm going to have to use crap.

Crap is not recommended for making HUDs.

Which is why I'm not using. I dunno if GIMP can make alpha channels, but an image converter definitely isn't going to help. And I guess Nobody Beta Release will help me with the overlaying shield bars. Going to search around in guerilla.

Gimp can make alphas.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbDdfQuHrQ4&feature=channel_page

Still nobody helping with the shield bars...

*sigh* so simple... make it have no gradient in the alpha channel, just 1 colour.
make the bitmap cover your whole screen

Then you set the shield colour to red for minimum, dark red for medium, and black for full.

That's it --> red screen when your shield runs out <--

congrats.
Edited by BeachParty clan on Aug 23, 2009 at 03:54 AM

Thanks, but what settings should I set in the bitmap tag since it covers your whole screen? And where do I make it red, dark red, and black?
Edited by Ethereial on Aug 23, 2009 at 05:49 AM
Edited by Ethereial on Aug 23, 2009 at 06:06 AM