POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.newusers : Transparent text : Re: Transparent text Server Time
29 Jul 2024 02:30:28 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Transparent text  
From: Sabrina Kilian
Date: 16 Jan 2007 18:20:43
Message: <45ad5dcb$1@news.povray.org>
Espen wrote:
> "Trevor G Quayle" <Tin### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
>> Works fine for me.  Perhaps, you expect something different?
>>
> 
> Ah.  I found out what was wrong.  Though now it puzzles me more.
> 
> This line works:
> 
>    pigment { rgbf < 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 0.5 > }
> 
> This is white colored text.  But in my scene the text is not white but dark
> grey.  I use this line:
> 
>    pigment { rgbf < 0.2, 0.2, 0.2, 0.5 > }
> 
> And now there is hardly any translucency.  How do I fix this?  It seems like
> a bug or something.  Can't see why black or dark colored text shouldn't be
> transparent.
> 
> Sorry for not correctly giving the actual problem the first time.
> 
> , Espen
> 
> 
> 

Try rgbt instead of rgbf. Section 3.2.1.5 in the documentation explains
the difference between filter and transmit better then I could.


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