How do I draw transparent polygons?

Hello,

Suppose I have two Point / PointF arrays P1 and P2. How can I draw two polygons on a panel, one from P1 and the other from P2, such that the two are transparent? Meaning, in case they overlap, I can also see the one that's under.

From what I've seen on searches I have to use DirectX directly or something like that, but I haven't seen any clear examples. Could someone provide an example?

So what functions do you use to draw opaque polygons?

Look through the documentation for say "alpha". If you're familiar with RGB for setting a colour, then RGBA is the advanced form.
Eg.
RGB=( 255, 0, 0 ); // red

then
RGBA=( 255, 0, 0, 255 ); // solid red
RGBA=( 255, 0, 0, 128 ); // semi-transparent red

Well a simple solution for you would be to alter the color's opacity by setting the color's alpha value to something lower than 255. Example:

Code:

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using System.Drawing;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace WindowsFormsApplication1
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private void Form1_Paint(object sender, PaintEventArgs e)
        {
            Graphics g = e.Graphics;

            g.FillPolygon(new SolidBrush(Color2Transparent(Color.Red)), new Point[] {
                new Point(10, 10),
                new Point(100, 100),
                new Point(10, 110)
            });

            g.FillPolygon(new SolidBrush(Color2Transparent(Color.Blue)), new Point[] {
                new Point(50, 10),
                new Point(150, 100),
                new Point(60, 110)
            });
        }

        private Color Color2Transparent(Color c)
        {
            return Color.FromArgb(128, c.R, c.G, c.B); // setting opacity to about 50%
        }
    }
}

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The result will look like this: http://i45.tinypic.com/9lj3hx.jpg

Sorry Salem, I didn't see your post when I starting writing mine.

I was using the FillPolygon function to draw opaque polygons. I didn't know about the FromArgb function, that is what I was looking for.

Thank you both!