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From: "Matt Verran" <mverran@btinternet.com>
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Subject: Re: Transparency
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 12:00:48 +0100
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use 1.0back - 1.0 forward, then increase the GsBOXF r,g,b intensities from 0
to 255, when the box intensity is 0 you will be taking 0 from every screen
pixels intensity, when it is 255 you will be taking 255 from every screen
pixels intensity (which will make it black).

Matt

pal <pal_news@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:01c10ead$48608260$7b0ae4d5@pal-s-omnibook...
> I'm trying to make a fade out effect.
>
> I've been trying to use a big transparent GsBOXF that I repeatedly draw
> over the picture. I tried various "semi-transparency rates" in the
> attributes; "0.5 * back + 0.5 * forward" was the best choice, but it is
not
> good enough.
>
> It appears that about 5 iterations of drawing a black transparent GsBOXF
> suffice to completely blacken a white pixel. That means that my fade out
> takes only 1/10 second to complete... which is far too fast. If I do the
> thing just every n frames, it gets ugly (too much difference from one
frame
> to the other).
>
> I tried various colors for my GsBOXF, black seemed to be the best.
>
> Have I missed something? Has anyone any suggestion for a better way of
> achieving a fade out?
>
>
>
> pal
>