Talk:Pigron

Does it drop Blessed Apple?
I saw an edit that Pigrons will drop Blessed Apple. I know it can be drop by Hallow Pigrons, but what about the Crimson and Corruption (Maybe I say it incorrectly) Pigrons? Does Crimson and Corruption (Maybe I say it incorrectly, AGAIN) drop Blessed Apple? Thanks. --IosKent (talk) 11:04, 7 July 2016 (UTC)--

The Pigrons in the Console Version are the only ones that can drop the Blessed Apple. Why am I replying to old Discussions? I do not know. Piostephanie (talk) 12:39, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

Transparency vs. Translucency
I recently made an edit to this page changing one instance of "translucent" to "transparent." I just wanted to clarify the difference here because it seems to be a common misunderstanding and will no doubt come up again in the future.

"Transparency" is when a material allows light to pass through it relatively unimpeded. A material may absorb light of certain wavelengths, changing the color, but it is still transparent (sometimes called "semi-transparent"). Pretty much everything is opaque to some wavelength, even things that appear colorless like glass, but there's a word for something that is not opaque to anything: invisible. Examples of transparent materials include glass, water, some plastics, and Jell-O!

"Translucency" is when a material allows some light to pass through it but scatters and diffuses it so that the outline of anything on the other side is blurred, sometimes to the point of being completely unrecognizable. Good examples of translucent materials are frosted glass, thin fabrics, tissue paper, clouds, and you! (Get a bright flashlight and cover it with your hand. See how your fingers appear to glow red? That's translucency.)

Rendering transparency in games is pretty easy because, in addition to the RGB value that determines a pixel's color, there is also an Alpha channel that determines how much a pixel's color is blended with the background, mimicking the effect of transparency. Rendering translucency is usually more complicated (beyond what I can understand), but Terraria does a pretty good quick-and-dirty job with cloud blocks: they aren't transparent, you can't actually see through them, but they let light through. Jimbo Jambo(T) 05:16, 2 September 2016 (UTC)