Hi guys, I''m trying to make a particle/billboard transparent with blending but it doesn''t work cause I dont know how to specify the alpha value. I''ve readen it could be done with the 4th parameter of the diffuse material, but this doesnt work. Someone knows ?

I''ve forgotten to write that I use a bitmap and not a tga file

Yes, you can use a TGA file. TGA supports an alpha channel. You can also specify a color which would be the transparent color and when reading the Bitmap you can generate a RGBA Image in Memory where all Pixel having the color you specified get an alpha value of 0, all other 1.

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Corrail
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The trouble is that I use the auxDIBImageLoad function to load bitmap and I have no access to the image''s data.
Actually, I used some parts of the tutorial 19, where bitmap are loaded and transparent, but I dont know why, it doesnt work in my case. I thougth it''s because I draw some other textured objects. Any ideas ?

Write your own loader. It is really not difficult!!
But you can also use an alpha map (a bitmap with only one component) and blend it with multitextureing

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"If it looks good, it is good computer graphics"
"If it looks like computer graphics, it is bad computer graphics"

Corrail
corrail@gmx.at
ICQ#59184081