POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Transparency maps : Re: Transparency maps Server Time
8 Aug 2024 14:24:37 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Transparency maps  
From: Pete
Date: 29 Nov 2000 19:19:35
Message: <496.368T475T11534116PeterC@nym.alias.net>
>This has probably been asked before, but not since I started looking. Can
>POV or MegaPOV do transparency maps? (i.e. like a hightfield image is used
>for displacement with light and dark areas, use an image to effect transp.)

>thanks for listening

I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but if an image being used as an
image map has an alpha channel (32-bit .tga and I think .png can do
this), povray will use the alpha channel to determine transparency.

Or did you mean something else?

Pete


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