Team colors and transparency

[Helmet]

I made the sprite for a unit with wings, then team-colored the wings. I'd like the wings to be semi-transparent; unfortunately, team colors only work when I make the wings opaque. The wings don't look as good when they're opaque, though.

Evidently semi-transparent team colors is do-able. Is there an extra step I need to do to make it work? I'm using version 1.15.6.

[Nyanyanyan]

First of all, I'm not sure using the dev version is a good idea when doing anything multiplayer, since it has a lot of new features (ways to filter for example) that, if I understand this correctly, won't be understood by the stable release.

Anyway, regarding your question, couldn't you do it using a transparent halo?
Didn't try it, but from the wiki, halo_mod=~O( factor or percentage% ) should do the trick.

[Helmet]

...couldn't you do it using a transparent halo?
Didn't try it, but from the wiki, halo_mod=~O( factor or percentage% ) should do the trick.

H, Nyanyanyan. The campaign is single-player.

I went to the Wiki, like you suggested. I do not understand halo_mod and string modifications and ImagePathFunctions. I'm guessing that it wouldn't work, however. If I put the wings on a separate layer for a halo effect, the transparency would probably apply to the entire wing, right? This is not ideal, because the wing was designed with opaque colors, colors that have 30% opacity, and colors that have 70% opacity.

Here is the image. If someone can provide the code which gets team colors working, I'd appreciate it. As required, I only used magenta on the wings.

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[MoonyDragon]

You can also use this Dragonfly from Age of Tentacles by Wayirr. Simply recolor the blue part to magenta, if you want to add teamcolors to that unit. The CC-BY-SA License allows that, provided you credit him.

[Helmet]

You can also use this Dragonfly from Age of Tentacles by Wayirr. Simply recolor the blue part to magenta, if you want to add teamcolors to that unit. The CC-BY-SA License allows that, provided you credit him.

Thanks for the info. I checked-out the dragonfly unit from Age of Tentacles. Nice sprite! But I already animated my unit with flying, melee, and death, so I'm inclined to keep using it. I decided to team-color the wings as an afterthought.