Magnify

I simply can't get the magnify effect to work. I've got ps 1.4, so it should be no problem. When i select magnify for an object (like this: http://www.scirra.com/art_effects.php ) the whole square of the sprite get some light gray color, no matter what the sprite looks like.

oh, now i noticed. The completely white areas becomes transparent. Still don't get how it works. Tried to change the magnification factor, but nothing happened.

Hmm, what is your graphics card or graphics chip if its onboard? That's the crucial thing. Also, you should find your latest drivers and install them, that can fix a lot of problems. If you are certain you have the latest drivers and it still doesn't work, it may just be your graphics hardware sucks - if it's nVidia or ATI though, I'd be more worried.

I've run advanced Construct games like the RTS demo with no problems on an old SiS 650 chipset - sure it ran slow, but displayed correctly. So if you have latest drivers etc, I'd suspect it's your hardware.

I've got ATI Radeon 9250. I don't really know how to install new trivers.. so it might be that.

http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html

Assuming you're on XP:

http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/xp/r ... 00-xp.html

Installing these should make your card run as good as it can. Let me know if it works.

Still the same thing.. Her's a screenshot.

http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/8715 ... andag4.jpg

Could you, or someone else who bothers send me a .cap demonstrating this effect, and see if it works? I might be doing something wrong.

Judging by the animator bar you've done everything right. Perhaps the shader uses something the card doesn't support, or it could be a bug in Construct, but I don't think so - it just compiles the effect and sends it to the graphics card. Do 1.1 shaders work OK?

Greyscale works, black & white don't. Some 1.4 effects works, like subtractive. Most other 1.4 gives the same result as magnify.