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From: "Steve Dunn" <steve@backroom.tm>
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.2d_graphics
Subject: Re: Transparent Color
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 09:24:53 +0100
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>Did Sony not make the "Semitrans"
utility available to the Yaroze folks?
no !
(does that mean my original post was
correct ?! :D  )

>Craig @ Intelligent Research
Steve 'Yaroze' Dunn


>Did Sony not make the "Semitrans"
utility available to the Yaroze folks?
>I've got it, but I'm not sure if it
came from the SCEE Developer Support
>site or from the Yaroze stuff.
>
>It's only a dinky little windows app
that lets you edit palette settings
>and set / clear the STP bits (and check
semi/full transparency) in a
>TIM.
>
>Would anyone at SCEE like to jog my
memory?
>
>Craig @ Intelligent Research
>
>Elliott Lee <tenchi@netmagic.net> wrote
in article
><3522C080.5D7B86C0@netmagic.net>...
>> Also, be careful when you reduce your
palette from TrueColor to 8-bit or
>> 4-bit color when using an adaptive
palette method.  Sometimes, there is
>> no true black (RGB=00,00,00) even
though there may be a really dark
>> color in there (e.g. RGB=08,10,03)...
>>
>> Steve Dunn wrote:
>> >
>> > I believe it's got to be
black(0,0,0), with the 'transparency for
>black'
>> > setting set in the timutil.
>> > To use black in the sprite use a
similar color like (0,0,1)
>> > Think thats right anyway.  Worth a
try
>> >
>> > Steve
>> >
>> > Harald Ploch wrote in message
<352228A8.7960@telecom.at>...
>> > >Hello!
>> > >
>> > >How do I specify the color which
will be transparent when I display a
>> > >sprite ?
>> > >
>> > >Thanx
>>
>> - e!
>>   tenchi@netmagic.net
>>
http://www.netmagic.net/~tenchi/yaroze/
>>