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PSIstudios
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How to make certain part of a sprite transparent

I was just wondering how to do it and yes, there's the ghost effect but that makes the entire thing transparent. Can someone please help on this.
P0rpleStar
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How to make certain part of a sprite transparent

To make something transparent, use the paint brush tool and select the transparent color at the bottom left of the color selection. It has a red line through it.

Last edited by P0rpleStar (Oct. 13, 2021 14:28:32)

PSIstudios
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500+ posts

How to make certain part of a sprite transparent

But I only want to make it partly transparent not fully.
P0rpleStar
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How to make certain part of a sprite transparent

oh. hm. Then I don't think you can, beside the ghost effect you really can't.
PSIstudios
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How to make certain part of a sprite transparent

Ok thank you.
JoshuaWho12
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How to make certain part of a sprite transparent

You might be able to make the sprite in two parts, the one part being the one you want fully visible, and the other one is the one you want somewhat transparent, and then you can use the ghost effect on the sprite that has the part you want to be transparent.
PSIstudios
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How to make certain part of a sprite transparent

I was thinking of that but I wasn't sure if that would work. Thank you!
orangetheory
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How to make certain part of a sprite transparent

You can clone each part, and for one part of the sprite you can set it transparent using ghost effect, and with the other just keep it to 0 ghost effect.
cartooney
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How to make certain part of a sprite transparent

You can, but you have to use an art or editing program to accomplish this. I’ll use the program Procreate for an example, but as long as you know how to use layers and opacity, you should be fine with any program.

Here I’m trying to make a flower, but I want the middle to be semi-transparent
I’ll draw on two separate layers; one has the petals and other has the center. Then I’ll reduce the opacity to my desired level (technically make ghost effect). When you’re ready to export, don’t forget to turn off the background, and export it as a PNG file to it won’t show the background. (Sorry that the images are so huge lol)


When you upload it to Scratch, the middle will be transparent and the rest will be solid… and that’s all there is to it! I hope this helps!
BladiPetrov
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How to make certain part of a sprite transparent

PSIstudios wrote:

But I only want to make it partly transparent not fully.
You can do two sprites. One for the body and another for the part you want to parcially disappear
PSIstudios
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How to make certain part of a sprite transparent

Thank you guys so much for the help!!! I was thinking of most of the things you guys have said but I was just making sure.

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