right, I need a function to set transparancy in textures easily. The best way I can see todo this is by having all pixels in the texture with an alpha channel of 1 EXECEPT those pixels which are pure blue (0,0,1)/ which get the alpha channel set to 0. has anybody done anything similar? or even made a function todo this..

I personally tend to nake the out color black. It''s very easy too.

// make sure the transparent part of the texture isn''t drawn glEnable(GL_BLEND); glBlendFunc(GL_SRC_ALPHA, GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA); glEnable(GL_ALPHA_TEST); glAlphaFunc(GL_GREATER, 0);

Then when you draw, black is transperant. (-:

Alex Broadwin
A-Tronic Software & Design
-----
"if you fail in life, you were destined to fail. If you suceed in life, call me."
"The answer is out there."
"Please help, I''m using Windows!"

"nake" = "make"

Alex Broadwin
A-Tronic Software & Design
-----
"if you fail in life, you were destined to fail. If you suceed in life, call me."
"The answer is out there."
"Please help, I''m using Windows!"

heh, :D, big thanks m8.

I''ve wanted todo this for ages and now it looks like I''ve actually got all the rendering functions I need to make it look like I wanted.

Its gonna be a 3D stlye "missile command" which I''ve liked since I first saw it in [terminator 2?] this film, but wanted it upgrading to proper 3d with real looking destructable buildings etc, I have some neat little twists to add as well, so I''ll let you''ll know how I get on.

Sounds great! Do keep us posted!

Alex Broadwin
A-Tronic Software & Design
-----
"if you fail in life, you were destined to fail. If you suceed in life, call me."
"The answer is out there."
"Please help, I''m using Windows!"