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Allright, so I have my sprite and its on a black(but can be white) background. Now I place my sprite on my scrolling background and , BAM, look a black rectangle outlining my ship with the stars going through my ship, or with just black behind my ship. So, to get to the point, how can one merge the sprite image with the background so they blend together?
alpha mapping.
Isn't that with DirectX?
Do you mean you want the background color of the sprite to be transparent? This is known as color key transparency. I don't know what you are doing or working with so I can't help you too much. If you are using DirectX its easy though! Let me know.
>Isn't that with DirectX?
Direct-X, OpenGL, whatever... they both do it.
how it works(generally, non tehnical):
method one:
a color or several colors is chosen, and if a pixel matches that color it is not drawn, or is blended to the specified alpha(transparency level).
method two:
every pixel has its own alpha value(transparency level) and that is used to blend it with the background pixels and their alphas and so on.
Thanx for the info, I finally got it after looking around on msdn. I am starting just a general space game, hence the previous posts on scrolling background and screen capture(for the sprite). I got all that stuff done now, so now its just continuing with the code. Thanx for all the help.
what im thinking is that youve used black in your sprite..... make the transparent color something that you dont use. 256,256,256 is the "magic pink".
Uh, actually, the highest in this kind of RGB configuration is 255,255,255. A '256' would require 9 bits.Quote:
256,256,256 is the "magic pink".
And the "magic pink" is 255, 0, 255
Heh, I was just fixing to say that :)
Anyways if he was going at 255, 255, 255, that would be white...
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"magic" pink is 255, 0, 255 so driveway is right that 255, 255, 255 would be white.
Animate the black background of your sprite to work parelle to the background. (This would probably take a long time to figure out how to work so maybe you should not try it lol)