POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.general: PovRay 3.6 + WinXP - is "image_map" with alpha channels borked?: Re: PovRay 3.6 + WinXP - is "image

POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : PovRay 3.6 + WinXP - is "image_map" with alpha channels borked? : Re: PovRay 3.6 + WinXP - is "image_map" with alpha channels borked?		Server Time 1 Aug 2024 22:21:45 EDT (-0400)

From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 1 Apr 2005 02:01:33
Message: <424cf1cd@news.povray.org>

"Mike Williams" <nos### [at] econymdemoncouk> schreef in bericht
news:uZe### [at] econymdemoncouk...
> Wasn't it Tim Otholt who wrote:
>
> >1) When I render the picture, the image is almost completely black.  It
> >appears POVRAY doesn't work with .TIF files with alpha channels?
>
> I don't think POV image_map works with alpha channels.
>
Yes, it does work! I make png image_maps with the transparant parts in the
alpha channel, then uv map it on a surface. Works perfectly! Works also for
tga by the way. I don't know about tif though.

Thomas

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