How can I make the background of my sprite always draw transparent?
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Image transparency issue
How can I make the background of my sprite always draw transparent?
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Re: Image transparency issue
Use the alpha channel for your images. An alpha of 1 means it's fully opaque, an alpha of 0 means it's fully transparent, and you can also use any alpha value in-between 0 and 1 (note: depending on the format this might be a byte 0-255 rather than a float 0-1).
This means you'll have to choose a format that supports alpha channels (png, tif, etc.), or you can create masks for your images (much more difficult, as well as performing worse than using an image with alpha).
Re: Image transparency issue
I'm still a little confused. How would I do it if I want the color pink to appear clear.
Re: Image transparency issue
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Re: Image transparency issue
I painted the background of my sprite pink. I want to convert the pink to transparent so it looks like my sprite is walking on the background.
Re: Image transparency issue
load your image in an application that can edit alpha values (photoshop, gimp, there are some other ones, but MS paint does not support this). Then, everywhere there is a pink pixel you don't want to be visible, use the tool provided by your specific application to change the alpha channel to 0. If you're unsure how to do this, a quick google search should provide this information.
Once you've removed the alpha channel, you need to load the image acknowledging that there are 4 channels (RGBA). TYPE_4BYTE_ABGR will work for this, as will TYPE_INT_ARGB. You should be able to paint the image as normal and the channels marked as having 0 alpha will be completely transparent (or invisible).
Brt93yoda (August 31st, 2010)
Re: Image transparency issue
Thank you!
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