Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!peter_alau@playstation.sony.com
From: "Ben Siroshton" <ben@triax.com>
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Subject: image program, anyone interested?
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 16:21:48 -0800
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Hello,

I wrote a program a while ago that lets you load in a picture in many
different formats and then converts it to a TIM.  The neat part is, you can
zoom in and out of your picture and select what colors (note colors is
plural) you want to be transparent.  If your anything like me, I like to use
really contrasting colors for my transparent bits instead of black - as most
everything I draw is coming from and anti-aliased to black.

The reason, I ask if anyone is interested is because currently I only have
the output writing to a 24bit TIM, I need to finish up the other bit depths.
But only if there is enough interest in such a thing.

In addition, I was playing with picking a list of colors that would be
semi-transparent so you could make those space ship cockpits semi-see
through or whatever... however this was giving me some problems, its been a
while but if I remember right there was a semi-transparent bit, but can you
even have pixel by pixel semi-transparencies?  If so, I will be sure to
finish this up with that feature in place as well.

Anyway, any feedback, ideas, encouragment greatly appreciated.

thanks

-ben