http://linuxformat.com/forums/index.php Help, discussion, magazine feedback and more english (c) Copyright Sat May 18, 2013 12:14 pm by Linux Format forums webmaster@linuxformat.com webmaster@linuxformat.com Sat May 18, 2013 12:14 pm Sat May 18, 2013 12:14 pm http://backend.userland.com/rss phpBB2 RSS Syndication Mod by Lucas 1 http://linuxformat.com/forums/ Help, discussion, magazine feedback and more http://linuxformat.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=89269#89269 <br /> Author: <a href='http://linuxformat.com/forums/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=27342'>graemev</a><br /><br /> Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 6:09 pm<br /><br /> <br /><br /> I thought the pyinvaders game (LXF110) would make a good intro from my son (and if he takes the bait ... he won't need to wait a month to carry on)<br /> <br /> ... mostly fine but:<br /> self.bitmap.set_colorkey(....) did not seem to work (always got a black border ... wracked my brains ...seems familiar <br /> ...finally (<img src="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif" alt="Smile" border="0" />) resorted to this forum (18+ months after the article was published ... yea right!) ...no joy , so started to write this up ... amazing how putting it down in black and white throws it in to stark contrast (<img src="images/smiles/icon_wink.gif" alt="Wink" border="0" />) ... nobody else was having the problems .. I've got custom sprites (my son is more motivated by the images) ...so I go back to originals ... all works ... after a series of binary chops the answer is:<br /> <br /> &quot;the BMP need to be 16 bit ... gimp default of 32 bit does not work&quot;<br /> <br /> ..so thanks to the ability to download original article and grep it ....I see no mention of 16bits ...so it's worth posting.<br /> <br /> ..so thanks for that , sorted , fixed my problem, couldn't do it without you <img src="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif" alt="Smile" border="0" /> http://linuxformat.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=89269#89269 graemev Sun May 16, 2010 6:09 pm http://linuxformat.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=89269#89269