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From: Scott Cartier <dsyaroze@concentric.net>
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Subject: Re: Sprites don't display black?
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 1998 17:19:28 -0800
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Ah, thanks.  Thought I was going nuts there.  Now that I think about 
it that's a pretty nice feature.  You can have a limited form of 
transparency without actually setting the transparency bit (speeding 
things up I assume).

Scott


> Hi,
> 
> Any pixel with colour 0,0,0 will be transparent, regardless of the setting
> of the transparency flag ( This controls semi-transparency )
> If you want a black pixel, set bit 15 of the CLUT entry ( ie. Colour is
> $8000 instead of 0 )
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Colin.