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From: Michael Hough <mhough@stanford.edu>
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.2d_graphics
Subject: Re: Transparent Color
Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 00:11:21 -0500
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Elliott Lee wrote:
> 
> Craig Graham wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>         [...]
> 
> Nope.  Yaroze members don't get that.  We use TIMUtil which has
> a few checkboxes for converting bitmaps to TIMs and setting the
> semi-trans bit.  Too bad there wasn't like a Photoshop plug in
> that would let you toggle the transparency bits as a Mask or
> something.  :)
> 
> > Craig @ Intelligent Research
>         [...]
> 
> - e!
>   tenchi@netmagic.net
>   http://www.netmagic.net/~tenchi/yaroze/

  Do people not use TIMTool?  It lets you tweak STP bits in your CLUTs 
and use masks for your 16-bit TIMs (though I've never tried this; 16 
bits is too extravagant for my taste) and it's also delightfully 
graphical.

  I almost swear by it, so if it's got some horrible taint, let me 
know...

mike