Thread: Odd-shaped windows

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    Odd-shaped windows

    How would you create an odd-shaped window? I figured out how to mask one with a skin, create an eliptical shape and so on, but is it possible, no, does anyone here know how to do this?
    Weeel, itss aboot tieme wee goo back too Canada, eeehy boyss.

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    >How would you create an odd-shaped window?
    Just the way you said, place a skin over it with transparency settings and masks that make it look oddly shaped. The actual windows are rectangular, there's no way I know of to change that. You can change the way it looks with skinning though.

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    flipCode's got a tutorial on skinning windows...

    http://www.flipcode.com/articles/art...n32skins.shtml

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    Thanks! This is exactly what I was looking for. It'll keep me fairly busy for a while.
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