(not a bug) Item shadow not a single colour

[Gambit37]

When you pick up items and move them around (as the mouse cursor), they are given an offset duplicate which acts as a shadow. However, the shadow is a full colour copy of the item, with shading and lowered opacity. I think this should be set to use all black pixels as in the original DM (but keep the transparency, etc.)

[Sophia]

I liked it this way.

[Gambit37]

Oh! OK. But it's not a shadow. Shadows don't cast the colour and details of the original object. It just looks weird. So while you may not class it a bug, it *is* wrong.

[Sophia]

Meh. If it really bothers you I could make it an option.

[Gambit37]

Heh he, honestly don't worry about it if it's an effort, I just wanted to report it as a bug because it looked like it wasn't rendering correctly.

[Sophia]

No, it was by design. I realize that it's not a proper shadow, but, I coded it this way back before DSB supported alpha blending. Doing it that way was a way of making it look like the shadow wasn't 100% opaque without having to actually do any real blending. It actually worked pretty well on the default DM icons-- I guess you only noticed it now because you've been using your own icons?

[Gambit37]

Yeah, it looks weird on some of my icons, but even some of the DM ones too, such as the wooden shield. Maybe it's more noticeable on wider, fatter icons too. I have known about it for a while but kept forgetting to mention it.