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From: "Mario Wynands" <mario@sidhe.co.nz>
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.beginners
Subject: Re: How to fade ???
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 10:04:36 +1300
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Tom wrote in message <36A31DCB.5EB9@bristol.ac.uk>...
>> Hi Roman,
>>
>> A common method for fading to black is to draw a semi transparent RECT
over
>> the top of everything and vary the RGB values over the course of several
>> frames.
>>
>
>Surely the easiest way to fade to black is to change the values of the
>rgb data in the GsSPRITE structure? This doesn't work for fading to
>white though because setting these values to 255 only makes the image
>twice as bright.


That will only work if all items on your screen are sprites though.  Using
the transparent GsBOXF method is more generic allowing you to perform a fade
over any type of graphics.


Mario
mario@sidhe.co.nz
www.sidhe.co.nz