[SOLVED] Why is my font not dimming?

[applebappu]

This is probably a stupid question, FYI.

I'm working on a tiled roguelike, making the engine from scratch, and it's going well. However, I can't seem to do something very simple: draw the map memory (the part of the map that the player has explored but cannot currently see) in dimmer-than-full-bright characters.

I'm using a plain old courier.ttf for my font "tiles", and it looks about like this:

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And if you move around a bit, I've set it up so that wherever you've been gets added to the "map memory", so that I can draw that in darker colors and retain a map of where you've been. Trouble is, even when I set the font color to something darker, it just looks like this:

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And just so that there's no question, here's the code for drawing said map and map memory (taken from my Map class module)

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DrawMap = function(self)
	love.graphics.setColor(255,255,255,255)
	for i = 1, self.board_size.x do
		for j = 1, self.board_size.y do
			if mob_db.Player:LineOfSight(i, j) and mob_db.Player:DistToPoint(i, j) <= mob_db.Player.sight_dist then
				love.graphics.print(self.map_table[i][j], i * self.tile_size, j * self.tile_size)
				self.memory[i][j] = self.map_table[i][j]
			end
		end
	end
end,

DrawMapMemory = function(self)
	love.graphics.setColor(25,25,25,10)
	for i = 1, self.board_size.x do
		for j = 1, self.board_size.y do
			love.graphics.print(self.memory[i][j], i * self.tile_size, j * self.tile_size)
		end
	end
end

and yes, I'm calling DrawMap after DrawMapMemory in main.lua. So... how come everything is full-bright, even outside of the FOV?

Update: If I change the color inside DrawMapMemory to love.graphics.setColor(1,1,0,1), I can get something like this:

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What would I set it to to get plain old gray? lol

[darkfrei]

Was: love.graphics.setColor(25,25,25,10)
Must be: love.graphics.setColor(25/255, 25/255, 25/255, 10/255)

[applebappu]

Oh my god, lmao. I knew it would be dumb. Thank you. Setting it to 100/255 for the RGB and 255/255 for the alpha yields:

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Thank you!