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From: jamin1@psu.edu (Jamin Frederick)
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Subject: Re: pixel-by-pixel translucency
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 03:14:16 GMT
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On Sat, 14 Jun 1997 10:34:53 -0700, Scott Cartier
<dsyaroze@concentric.net> wrote:

>Oops, I sent this to Jamin, but forgot to copy the newsgroup too.
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>
>You could manually edit the TIM file and change the transparency
>values for every CLUT entry to either 1 or 0 as you like.  Of
>course that's a pain in the butt.  As far as I know there isn't
>a TIM editing utility that gives you that control.  I've hacked
>together a simple TIM manipulator that lets you do that.  If
>you're interested, once it's done I can post it.  

	Ok, sure.  Let us know when it's done...

>You can see
>my web page for a description (unfortunately you'll have to wade
>through the rest of my updates to find it - shouldn't be too 
>hard).
>
>By the way, this will give you control over transparency on a
>CLUT entry-by-CLUT entry basis, not pixel-by-pixel as you want.

	Right, unless you're in direct 16-bit mode.

>As far as I know, that's not possible.  If you need to have the
>same color as transparent and non-transparent you could have 
>two CLUT entries with the same color values, but one with
>transparency and one without.
>


Jamin