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From: Mal <malachy_duffin@interactive.sony.com>
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Subject: Re: Transparency
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 09:49:57 +0100
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Nelson Santos wrote:
> 
> Regarding transparent colors:
> 
> Maybe I missed something in the manuals but how do we display a sprite
> where it's background color (normally color 0, black) is transparent?
> Whenever I display sprites and they pass over each other, I see the black
> unmasked background overlapping each other.
> 
> Nelson.

As you haven't described what your doing at present it's difficult to
say what's wrong. I assume you've set the texture to have transparent
for black (timtool and timutil both allow you to do this). Next you set
the attributes field of the GsSprite structure, bit 30 switches on
semi-transparency, and bits 28 and 29 the amount (although this will
mean nothing for transparent background).

Stuart