Highlighting Only the Frame

Handman wrote on 11/26/2006, 6:10 AM

I have a menu page that has a .jpg for its button. Presently, when the DVD is started, a huge highlight covers the picture, taking away from the picture's visual effect.

I would like to make the highlight only affect a frame that I would put around the image. How do I do this? I am having a bit of difficulty following the help section regarding masks.

Thanks...

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richard-courtney wrote on 11/26/2006, 5:06 PM

Well Handyman, let's use the WOOD1 theme included in DVDA.

Start a new project and add 2 or more buttons.
Click on a button. In Button Properties -> Highlight
change Style to Custom. Replace the Mask with Frame1.png.
Make sure Mask Mapping is set to Transparency.

Do the same to the other buttons. The hightlight should be the frame only.

If you look at the Frame1.png ... white areas (checkerboard if your paint
program shows alpha) will be transparent. All nonwhite areas will become
the highlight mask. You could create a separate highlight mask but since you
have gone thru all the hard work of creating a fancy frame....
I'd use it.

plasmavideo wrote on 11/26/2006, 7:01 PM

That's exactly what I want to do also, but I'm unsure how to get a frame.png out of a theme. The frames seem to be inside the .thm wrapper, so I don't see how you can directly get at them to use them like this.

Can you enlighten me as to how to get to that point? It's probably obvious, but I sure can't find it.

TIA

Tom

richard-courtney wrote on 11/26/2006, 7:13 PM

A theme file (.thm) is actually a zipped folder.

If you right click on a theme file you should see EXTRACT TO or EXTRACT HERE.
Depending on your zip program (winzip, 7-zip, pkunzip, etc).

If not, copy the theme file to a working folder. rename with an extension of .zip
Then unzip it.

DVDA 3 or older used to create a folder _Themes but
in version 4 the program extracts it as needed.

plasmavideo wrote on 11/27/2006, 9:06 AM

Thanks. I didn't think to try that!