[Answered) Do 'transparent' travels actually *do* anything different??

heatherm19 • 4 February 2025 at 12:20 AM

I really don't understand the few CC travels that have been proclaimed as 'transparent', what exactly is suppose to happen? Because seeing what is 'behind' the travel/creature doesn't seem possible or isn't working? Am I misunderstanding or what? Because... Just what?

My creature with a 'normal travel; https://nimb.ws/9Ah1GPC
Putting on a supposedly-'transparent' travel: https://nimb.ws/2MnKixI
Creature with new travel, not showing anything 'behind': https://nimb.ws/uo1p2UM

I was willing to just ignore it when it was just that one time, but now brand-new supposedly-transparent travels are out and I'm unwilling to buy them without understanding what exactly they are supposed to do and how it's supposed to be different than how all travels work.

@Ian?
@Orderedchaos?
Anyone?

Orderedchaos • 4 February 2025 at 10:20 AM

@heatherm19
I've passed this along to Ian. I'm not sure how these are supposed to actually work as I just learned about them now.

Ian • 5 February 2025 at 1:55 PM

@heatherm19 @Orderedchaos the background on the Travels is transparent instead of white.

If placed on a black background, here's how they would look. This would be true for any background that creatures could be placed on.

URL to see: ibb.co/LDHMN1wd

The bottom row (with the white background) is what they would look like if they were NOT transparent. The the top row is transparent and demos the difference.

heatherm19 • 5 February 2025 at 1:59 PM

@Ian ... So we can't actually see the transparency in action on-site then? Is there any plans to allow 'skins', changing the site's background color, etc? I struggle to see the point in transparency if you can't tell the difference on-site. Thank you for the explanation though.

Ian • 5 February 2025 at 2:51 PM

@heatherm19

At the moment, no, there aren't plans to change site skins. However, this does affect how creatures display on other websites if they are embedded there which is why it was explained.

prairie • 5 February 2025 at 8:30 PM

Just to overall make this clear for all users who might have Qs on this whole thing & come here (like me) cause the blog post's wording was kinda funky:

This "transparent BG" has no functional use on Eggcave.com, because while it doesn't give a solid while BG on the creature's image link, it'll still have a white BG everywhere on the site, because everywhere your creatures images are posted, they have a white BG by default.
(Examples around the site: https://i.imgur.com/BId8GVc.png)
You pay premium for this btw (CC) which is funny because it's not something that's functional on the place you get it for (being Eggcave.com)
So really.... this isn't really much of a new feature for Eggcave.
It's only for "how creatures display on other websites if they are embedded there".