YATQ - Yet Another Texture Question

[MickeyB]

I am having the same problem that dsellars had on antoher thread.  I have png's that have black background.  I have set black as my clear color and the backgrounds are completely gone (what I want) but the image is transparent.

I am using the testure loader form LWJGL examples with the following line:

1	BufferedImage tex = new BufferedImage(image.getWidth(null), image.getHeight(null), BufferedImage.TYPE_4BYTE_ABGR);

Anything other that that type_4byte_abgr or type_3byte_bgr will cause the following line to error out with a clas cast exception at the following line:

1	byte data[] = (byte[]) tex.getRaster().getDataElements(0, 0, tex.getWidth(), tex.getHeight(), null);

my code for transparency is as follows and i have tried with with and without the commented code:

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if(isTransparent()) {                   GL11.glEnable(GL11.GL_BLEND);                                // Set up blending for transparency                  //GL11.glDisable(GL11.GL_DEPTH_TEST);              GL11.glBlendFunc(GL11.GL_SRC_ALPHA,GL11.GL_ONE);  // Blending Function For Translucency Based On Source Alpha Value              //GL11.glBlendFunc(GL11.GL_SRC_ALPHA, GL11.GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA); //GL11.glTexEnvf(GL11.GL_TEXTURE_ENV, GL11.GL_TEXTURE_ENV_MODE, GL11.GL_REPLACE);            }

regardless of changes, to have solid images, I must have solid backgrounds.
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EDIT: one note...if I use Fireworks and use a transparent canvas and use GL11.GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA it does what it should, but is this best practice?

[dsellars]

I got my stuff working in the end (I think as I've not got back to it to play with properly).

I used a modified version of the DevIL code in nehe lesson06 to load the image. (modified to load the alpa chanel)

I used the values that Cas suggested and it worked.  The only thing i can think of is that when I created my png's I created then with a transparent background.

I would have thought that having a black background on the texture will mean it gets drawn.

hth,

Dan.  

[MickeyB]

Thanks.  I am in the middle of converting all the canvas backgrounds to transparent.  

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[dsellars]

Did you try it with just one sprite to see if it worked first?

Dan.

[MickeyB]

Canvases to transparent does the trick...seeems good enough for now.  

Now back to picking!