Crash with PNG masks

[cosmowe]

Hi folkz...
every time I drag&drop one of these files in a layer mask area R4 crashes.
I also tried it with R3....same result.

Can anybody test it? thx..

greets
cosmowe..


just rightclick/save pic ...

[Basic]

Hey Cosmowe,

Just tested both of these with 3.3.3 and no issues at all. Just realized i don't have 4 installed. must download it again

hope this helps.
Basic

[cosmowe]

Thx. Basic!

Anyone tested it with R4?

[dirtyjohn_lv]

No crash in v4 (Arena tested) BUT ....

I could make the first mask work "TEST".
When I try making the gradient a mask on a new clip, it replaces the clip if it doesn't already have a mask.
IF it does have a mask, it replaces it, but if you blank it, it reverts back to the previous mask

[Basic]

strange, is it a png or res issue?

[edwin]

We had no crash either but it does not always update the mask if you replace it. So we'll take a look at this.

[Basic]

tested with arena 4 and no issues. time to mess about with it.

[HerrNieDa]

here on my old macbook with r3, test mask runs fine, gradient does nothing, made a new mask with transparent instead of blue/yellow and it reacts...
seems you have to use transparency to get gradients in the mask, the colors seem not to be recognized.

[edwin]

We use the red channel for the mask if there is no alpha channel present (jpg for instance). When you load a .png it takes the alpha channel as mask. But if your .png has an alpha channel that's fully opaque nothing will be masked out. The best thing is to use greyscale jpgs or otherwise create a .png with a proper alpha channel.
We'll try to make it a bit smarter in the future.

[edwin]

we fixed the fact that the clip masks weren't always updated correctly in the meantime btw.