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A way to adjust the transparency on slider bodies

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This is a feature request. Feature requests can be voted up by supporters.
Current Priority: +1,103
Topic Starter
narakucrimson
The other day I found this song, and my first thought was "a glass-like skin would be soo cool!".

But then I realized that the completely solid colours of the slider bodies would look odd. It just wouldn't fit with the general concept.

So I kinda thought that there could exist a way to adjust how transparent the slider bodies are, as long as you can recognize it while playing.
Maybe there could be a cap, a minimum transparency allowed to prevent the abuse of this feature.
Also, the slider border should stay solid, so at least something is totally visible.

I was also thinking that this could be something achievable via .osu coding, pretty much like SliderBorder and SliderTrackOverride features.

Well that's all!
I hope this can be applied.

EDIT: Some fellow members of the community also mentioned slider skinning as a possibility. I don't know how much this could extend, since there wouldn't be many options adjustable variables on a slider, but it's good to at least mention it. I'll update this if I have any crazy idea.

For now:
  1. Make the backeground of the slider skinnable, but with multiple colours (like a fade-out). Just:
    I did this really fast so it looks like shit, but the idea is clear.
  2. Allow the creation of patterns for the slider bodies. This is just a crazy idea, but I had to mention it.
Your ideas are welcome, too! Feel free to post!

Naraku, out.
theowest
I wouldn't want that, but I can see the appeal.
Saten
I see no harm in this. As long as you still can see the color on the slider-bodies.
Semi-transparency together with sliderstyle 2 would get a nice glass-like effect. Of course with a custom skin, it would look very appealing.
Luna
I seem to recall peppy and mm201 mentioning that skinnable sliders are planned, so this might be just a matter of time?
In any case, I support this.
theowest

Luna wrote:

I seem to recall peppy and mm201 mentioning that skinnable sliders are planned, so this might be just a matter of time?
In any case, I support this.
Could you locate this information? :v
Luna
Ah, found it!

mm201 wrote:

You never directly interact with the slider track. Only the ball and arguably the ticks. There's no technical reason why we couldn't have skinny ReRave slider tracks. In fact, once I get skinnable sliders up, this will be possible. Even once this becomes possible, existing ranking criteria involving slider track overlaps won't be reduced, nor will the default skin ever use them.
/p/1027861

The post is already a year old tho, so I don't know if it's actually being worked on.
theowest
then I guess this topic could be a reminder.

an almost better request would just be Skinnable Sliders, which will also ensure transparency on slider bodies.
Topic Starter
narakucrimson
Indeed
Aqo
Yes please, I was sad when I tried to make slider bodies slightly transparent'er recently and then found out it's (currently) impossible. +support
bwross
I have a few ideas of things to do with fully transparent sliders (both body and border invisible) that might be fun. Just don't allow them to be rankable... or enforce it by only allowing invisible sliders in user skins, not map ones.
G0r
I am for this idea.
theowest
if you could skin slider bodies, I'd imagine being able to skin it to have an arrow track, guiding the way.
[Luanny]
I liked this pattern idea o3o
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Topic Starter
narakucrimson
Well is at least the transparent slider thing possible?
theowest

narakucrimson wrote:

Well is at least the transparent slider thing possible?
it should be possible.
Kyomaku
I would love this, great idea naraku!

Voted +1 ~
Suimya
yeah nice idea and cool one too xD

+2 support~
theowest
I've noticed how extremely popular it is to make the slidertrack black, to make it look as if it's transparent to the black background.
TheLukay
great idea, I always wanted to see skinable sliders

+3
CecilHarveyFF4
voted +1
deadbeat
bump
Syrus
I'd love more customization for the sliders.

+2
AGRX
transparency to slider body and slider BORDER also
Cryphos
A nice idea, but the arrow idea may be harder to implement with some types of sliders. There are some tightly zig-zagging slider, and there are sliders that intersect. It would be hard to implement the design with these kinds of sliders around.

Nonetheless, the transparency of the slider is a great idea, I like it. :D
Xaffy
I wish!
Dradow
Transparent sliderborders +1

Made a skin which doesn't use any borders (circle or slider, cheated slider by using black border with 100% bg dim).
Looks pretty awesome imo, white borders kept annoying me like hell. Play with that skin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maZTJNoCJfc
Can we have something like this?

also don't mind the play, it's older than my name change; just picked one randomly
bTTT_old
This hasn't been said in this thread, but it seems important: The way sliders work now is that a hit circle is displayed on each endpoint on top of the slider track. For transparent sliders this means that it's impossible to have the same color for both the slider body and the endpoints. It would be great if there was a way around this problem. For example, have separate hit circles for sliders.

Secondly, I'd love to see transparency for slidertype 1. I like slidertype 1 and while it seems to have fallen out of favor, it still fits well with certain skin styles.
Dephix
would be nice
abraker
bump bump BUMP
Dephix
i wanna make my slidertrack completely transparent, anything under a slidertrack looks blury
Rilene
Bump.

Yes please.
Phexlar
I did notice lately with Hidden on the sliders fade away after I start them. Would love to change the opacity of my sliders in my skin a little to notice notes behind them easier.
Endie-
Wouldn't mind a feature like this
+1
softhusky
shameless bump :P
Alek X
Bump
Neubse
another bump <3 i shupport
[ R i v e n ]
bump

I like it :D
--Winter
Bump
Antiforte
This would make circles hidden inside slider bodies much less of a hassle. c:

I support! (even though I have no stars to give :()
Inareous
Bump this! the white gradient look so ugly right now
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