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None of those.

The protagonist's setup is a little less slick than what Bond might have.

None mentioned yet.

I'd just prerender the few frames in PS and free precious cycletime.

It's many frames.  And I want to be able to change the offset for different lighting directions in different rooms, etc.

I think it's much older than that.

Very interesting.
Another approach could be to first copy the offsetted sprites on an empty sprite, then draw the original character sprite on top of it all?

If I follow, that would create a halo around the character rather than creating a rim that overlaps the character.

Neither of those.  Here's a closer look:

Quintaros, out of curiosity, could you describe how you intend on using this feature? I can't think of a scenario where this would be useful.

I'd like to create a dynamic sprite that combines a character's silhouette with an offset inverted silhouette to create rim lighting effects. 




I've done some testing based on the suggestions in this thread and it seems like I'm getting somewhere.  Whether or not the operations will be fast enough to update on every frame of animation is yet to be determined.

The scenario I have in mind is with pink transparency, not alpha.  I want to create an intermediate dynamic sprite that converts the pink areas to white and the non-pink areas to pink and then use this intermediate sprite with the CopyTransparencyMask function to apply to another dynamic sprite.  I'd like to do this all with dynamic sprites rather than importing additional sprites with the desired masks to provide flexibility and keep sprite file size down.

F is for Fake?

Is that Orson Welles or Mark Hamill? It's confusing these days.

Haha.  I can see it.

Body 1 ... might shift upper body to right by 1 pixel
Hat 2

Any ideas on how to script it?

Is there a way to invert the transparency mask from an existing sprite before copying it to a dynamic sprite?

That is John Hurt? He's supposedly about 45/46 in that film, but already looking late fifties. Didn't that guy ever look young?

The youngest I'd seen him was in "A Man For All Seasons" made in 1966 and he still had on oldish quality to him.

I'm not going to have a chance to post a new movie for a few days so if GarageGothic wants my turn, it's his.

Jake Speed?

Starman is the one.

Not Explorers, either.

Nope.