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Re: How do you make invisible bricks? - aquaMat - 10-04-2007

Aah.... the magic spell !!

Thought that was long forgotten...BTW, it was in The Mansion Family: Mind Mines....  I know I promised back then I'll share the secret.... now considerable time has passed, so I might be able to do so:

For that trick I have NOT USED any invisible bricks at all (and, unfortunately, I'm afraid building invisible bricks is not possible), but I created the impression of walking in air with the use of a layer trick.

I'm not even sure if I remember the correct order of proceedings, as I worked pretty long on that...trying out different things until it really worked..... but I achieved the effect by first adding bricks in a layer other than layer 4 and later removing them again.
The setting of the
fringe
is essential.

BTW..... some of you might remember that (shortly after the release of TMF 1) I announced The Mansion Family 2, which I was building already back in springtime. TMF 2 featured the then-novelty SNOW and ICE and there I also wanted to introduce another
magic spell
trick called
The Northern Lights
(which, incidentially was also the subtitle of TMF 2).

Unfortunately I never finished building TMF 2, as I was never completely satisfied with the snow landscapes (for which I got a little help from JoeB., who lshortly afterwards introduced snow in one of his mansions). So I abandoned the project (for now).
(It's a shame...as I'd really would have liked to show you the
Northern Lights
trick... Sad 8-))

You might be interested to hear that currently I'm working on TMF 3, working title
Parachutes
....which will also introduce an innovation. TMF 3 is already close to being finished, so it will definitely be released before TMF 2 !!

Re: How do you make invisible bricks? - brell - 10-04-2007

aquaMat wrote:
I'm not even sure if I remember the correct order of proceedings, as I worked pretty long on that...trying out different things until it really worked..... but I achieved the effect by first adding bricks in a layer other than layer 4 and later removing them again.
The setting of the
fringe
is essential.

Do you remember whether you used a lower or a higher level bricks than L4?

aquaMat wrote:
You might be interested to hear that currently I'm working on TMF 3, working title
Parachutes
....which will also introduce an innovation. TMF 3 is already close to being finished, so it will definitely be released before TMF 2 !!

Well, the Star Wars series was 4-5-6-1-2-3 so you are excused Wink

Re: How do you make invisible bricks? - Wingy - 10-04-2007

aquaMat wrote: I'm not even sure if I remember the correct order of proceedings, as I worked pretty long on that...trying out different things until it really worked..... but I achieved the effect by first adding bricks in a layer other than layer 4 and later removing them again. The setting of the
fringe
is essential.

Did you remove some of the fringe from layer 3 or something to get rid of the generated fringe or something by using the black nothing-ness tile on the fringe? Was that a part of the process?

Re: How do you make invisible bricks? - aquaMat - 10-06-2007

I actually do remember this (alas....I'm givin' it all away.. Big Grin Wink):

I first added a second floor in layer 6 using
Fringe ON
. Later I removed that floor, but somehow (that's the part I really can't remember exactly anymore) removed it with
Fringe OFF
, theoretically leaving the fringe in the picture. Of course you CAN'T see
fringe only
.
Due to some bug in the software, you now step onto that floor, even if it is already gone....giving the impression you were walking on air.

After I stumbled upon this effect / bug accidentally a while earlier (where I had removed a single
layer-6 + fringe
brick), I tried to recreate it in TMF for an entire floor.

BTW, I also experimented with layer-3, but that led to nothing.

Re: How do you make invisible bricks? - Freddy - 10-06-2007

While telling all the secrets of your private life ;D, please tell us for once and for ever why carots are more orange than oranges! Wink

Re: How do you make invisible bricks? - Wingy - 10-07-2007

aquaMat wrote: ...Of course you CAN'T see
fringe only
.

Oh really?

Re: How do you make invisible bricks? - aquaMat - 10-07-2007

Freddy wrote: While telling all the secrets of your private life ;D, please tell us for once and for ever why carots are more orange than oranges! Wink

If I only knew, Freddy, if I only knew...... Undecided


Re: How do you make invisible bricks? - aquaMat - 10-07-2007

Wingy wrote: [quote author=aquaMat link=1190938996/0#13 date=1191656106]...Of course you CAN'T see
fringe only
.

Oh really?

Yes, I know.... that this sometimes happens... but it is not
meant to (be used)
officially, and - at least durring my experiments - didn't always look like that. Sometimes you remove the brick front, but not the fringe (for whatever reasons) but still the fringe is gone afterwards. And that's the way it should be...e.g. in layer 4 it has to be always like that. You remove the brick (front is selected only), and the software
knows
it also has to remove the resp. fringe.

Re: How do you make invisible bricks? - brell - 10-10-2007

aquaMat wrote: [quote author=Freddy link=1190938996/0#14 date=1191701342]While telling all the secrets of your private life ;D, please tell us for once and for ever why carots are more orange than oranges! Wink

If I only knew, Freddy, if I only knew......    Undecided

Maybe because it has more beta-carotene?

Re: How do you make invisible bricks? - Freddy - 10-10-2007

Beta-CAROTene that is not in carots ... ;D
Or isn't this to subject anymore? :-? Better: :-X