deco thumbnail

  • catchphrase911
    4th Jun 2021 Member 0 Permalink

    on many of vip84's saves display the "deco" from the thumbnail. i was wondernig how to do so, as "pillars of creation" is all no deco, but has no varying tmp, life and tmp2 values. i am wondering how to do so, or just how to show deco from the thumbnail. help would be much apreciated. thanks :D

  • jacob1
    4th Jun 2021 Developer 0 Permalink
    These saves are abusing a bug in an older version of the save renderer. This isn't possible anymore, it was silently fixed a few months ago. Old thumbnails were not re-rendered, but if he were to update any of his saves, the deco in the thumbnail would go away.

    He used the properties of EMBR, which has the ability to display any arbitrary color, somewhat bypassing the normal logic that restricts deco usage on save thumbnails. I fixed this bug after getting extreme abuse from certain members of the community.

    The fix was to ensure EMBR renders with its full fire effect, making it entirely useless for save thumbnails.
  • SamDwich
    17th Jun 2021 Member 0 Permalink

    This has been answered. Basically Older saves using EMBR for deco thumbnails are using older versions of TPT before the graphical problem with EMBR was fixed. this thread has served it's purpose.