The following code is how I place a player onto the field, what if I wish to make them transperant of 50%? I have tried glColor4f(1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f, 0.5f); but it isn't that simple. class player_graphics { glLoadIdentity(); glTranslatef(x, y, z); glColor3f(1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f); glBegin(GL_QUADS); glTexCoord2f(0.0f, 0.0f); glVertex3f(-bl, 0.0f, 0.15f); glTexCoord2f(1.0f, 0.0f); glVertex3f(bl, 0.0f, 0.15f); glTexCoord2f(1.0f, 1.0f); glVertex3f(bl, (bh*2), 0.15f); glTexCoord2f(0.0f, 1.0f); glVertex3f(-bl, (bh*2), 0.15f); glEnd(); } Edited by - phantom007 on January 20, 2002 5:22:50 PM

you have to enable blending first I think:

In your initialization code, throw in these two lines:

glEnable(GL_BLEND);
glBlendFunc(GL_SRC_ALPHA, GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA);

Now when you do glColor4f(x, y, z, a) . . . the ''a'' will affect the color.

Works absaloutely perfect now. Thanks for your help