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This special effect will add a TV-static animation to the background. This same method can also be used to add a film grain or static effect to the foreground.
The first step is to open an image editor such as Photoshop and create a white, screen-sized background. Next, add 300% noise of the Uniform, Monochromatic variety to a few separate ones and save them individually so you have dark black noise on a white background.
Image 1
Image 2
Image 3
Image 4
Next, we want to create an animated image showing them in a sequence and repeating indefinitely.
image static:
"noise1.png" with Dissolve(0.2)
0.2
"noise2.png" with Dissolve(0.2)
0.2
"noise3.png" with Dissolve(0.2)
0.2
"noise4.png" with Dissolve(0.2)
0.2
repeatIf the static changes too slow for your taste, change the 0.2 to a lower value, like .15 or .1
To use this, you just call it like this whenever you wish to show static in-game.
show staticYou can also add the image in front of the characters and/or background in order to imitate the grain of an old film or a disrupted signal.
1) Create a new texture layer by adding this to options:
config.layers = [ 'master', 'texture', 'transient', 'screens', 'overlay' ]2) Change Dissolve(0.2) to Dissolve(0.2, alpha=True)
3) Lower the opacity of the static images in your image editor to 10%.
4) Show the image by using:
show image "static" onlayer texture5) Hide the image again by using:
hide image "static" onlayer texture