Yesss I Am The Master!

I've FINALLY figured out how to do win32 resource texture transparency in opengl!!!! YES! NOBODY ON NEHE COULD HELP ME BUT I FOUND MY WAY AROUND MASKING!
and they said i had to make two bitmaps for the price of one, ha.

everynight for the past 2 weeks for three hours i worked on this problem..i finally got it
this isnt spam..this is me extremely happy

congratulations!
but you know about the blend func in opengl, right? it can be used to make transparency somewhat. Also alpha blending works wonders when loading up your picture, just set it to RGBA mode.....

pheww...anyway here's what i've been working on.
press t for transparency and you'll see the original texture.
may not be much to you, but is ALOT to me.
EDIT: updated some stuff(the last version had a little memory leak and this version has enhanced graphics with the polygonised technologies)

Do you have the source or at least could you compile it in linux plz. I program in Opengl(not good at all(I am on vertex arrays right now )) So I can at least look at it. If not did you use glut or what?

Originally Posted by jverkoey

congratulations!
but you know about the blend func in opengl, right? it can be used to make transparency somewhat. Also alpha blending works wonders when loading up your picture, just set it to RGBA mode.....

i did, but i don't use two seperate textures like nehe and the rest of em do. I take the data from the original texture and copy it over onto a new texture but without the(0xFF,0,0xFF). and as a resource, too, notice in the zip theres only ONE file(the exe)? wheres the texture, its IN the file! i'm magical

i used 0xFF, not 255. can i be in the cool programmers club now? <--i hate that smiley

> used 0xFF, not 255. can i be in the cool programmers club now?

of course not, if you were a cool programmer you would use octal.

Real programmers edit the compiler and create their own base!

That'll either keep you your job for the rest of your life, as nobody else will be able to understand the numbers or get you fired straight away.

>as nobody else will be able to understand the numbers

that is their problem. if they aren't smart enough to know how to do math in bases other than 2, 8, 10, and 16, then that is there problem. i can do math in any base

i am particularly partial to base 11, i think it is quite fun.

Base 11? Real men use base 1. Now that's a fun way of writing numbers.

It's just a sequence of zeroes, the actual value depends on the moon phase on the following night to the number being written and the menstrual cycle of the closest female (doesn't have to be human).

im slowly realizing that most 'real' programmers, by you people's standards, are idiots

question....when i hit T...is it supposed to turn purple?

yeah :-P
its the original texture

it looks pretty good, keep up the good work

base 1 gives me a migrane like no other. Hope the info i gave u last week in the gaming forum helped! Good one : )