Thread: Transparency

not half bad. you don't need directx for a game like that. DirectX would be overkill for most 2d things. My guess on your transparency problem is that the color is "offblack" so it's not getting counted as a transparency color. sometimes those slip by because to the naked eye they look close enough. You should go over that area with a black brush in whatever paint program you use.

Awesome work so far

Hmm, I thought it was off-black too. I filled the image with white, then re-filled it with black (I even used a custom-defined color, and set r g and b to 0). No dice though... besides, why would the aliens have speckles?

p.s. I just use the paint that comes with windows.

Why don't you try using TransparentBlt wouldn't that do the trick for GDI stuff?

Gee whiz, actually I never knew there WAS a transparentblt! The only thing I'm concerned with, is that in the documentation, it says
[This is preliminary documentation and subject to change.]

Anyways, all of the tutorials I've seen use their own transparency functions... there must be a reason for that, right?

uh guys? TransparentBlit is NT only.

Oh, that would explain the error.

Hey... I was trying it out without the background, and I noticed this: I shoot a bullet, and it goes fine, right? Then I shoot a laser, and it shoots fine... then I cycle back to the bullet, and all of a sudden when I shoot it, it will display the bullet, but under the bullet it will be filled in with garbage, down to how far the laser goes (as in, it will fill in a rectangle the size of a laser, with the bullet at the top and the garbage at the bottom). I examined my code, but couldn't find out where I went wrong...

hard to give an answer to that. Do you have software like bounds checker? usually when something goes wrong after it works right it is a memory overwrite somewhere. If not, upload the project again and I'll bounds check it. At the very least, we can see what the problem you're describing looks like.

The code is pretty much the same as before (I didn't really change anything except to check TransparentBlt then change it back). Just go to main.cpp, scroll down to gameMain(), and comment out the indicated line (drawBG()), and you can see it easily.

By the way, do you know where I can get a trial version of BoundsChecker? I can't find it anywhere

sorry, I haven't been checking this thread. NuMega put out an old version but I think they are owned by Compuware now. www.compuware.com If they have one you should be able to find it there