What's the Difference between Vitality "Gems"?
 

I haven't had a chance really to play since they added the vitality in so i dont know what the difference is, however im woking on a an exp bar for my mod and i have no idea what the different vitality gems mean. If someone could just give me a quick description i would REALLY appreciate it! Thanks in advance. here were the 3 different ones:
1. GemGlow
2. Gem
3. EmptyGem

GemGlow and Gem are seperate images that are visible when you have vitality. They probably could have been merged, but alpha channels are a pain. Keeping them seperate then having one be semitransparent through XML is so much easier. :p

EmptyGem is the background image, kind of like the background for gauges in the Player and Target windows.

=O
If this is why SOE broke it up into two images, those SOE UI people are dumb. Transparency doesn't get any simpler than an alpha channel. I know I argued this to death in another thread, but being able to define percent-transparency on a per pixel basis is about as easy and precise as it gets.

I'm redoing the graphics and ditching the wasteful glow image if this was the only reason there's 2 images.

Quib