POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Transparent PNGs : Re: Transparent PNGs Server Time
1 May 2024 01:15:41 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Transparent PNGs  
From: Stephen
Date: 10 Oct 2017 03:27:29
Message: <59dc7661$1@news.povray.org>
On 10/10/2017 07:41, Thomas de Groot wrote:
> On 9-10-2017 14:00, Stephen wrote:
>> On 09/10/2017 12:38, Thomas de Groot wrote:
>>> It might be better to render as tga and later convert to png if 
>>> necessary.
>>
>> Is that one of those "Plant thy Mandrake when the moon is in Taurus 
>> and waning gibbous.", things? :-P
>>
>>
> 
> LOL Yes, but then adapted to the digital world. Even so, I indeed 
> recommend Mandrake over a Homunculus. ;-)
> 

Definitely Mandrake over Homunculus. Unless you are going to...



> I seem to remember to have had problems generating transparent png 
> images while I never had problems with tga.
> 

I recognised the form of the spell. I had the same problem donkey's 
years ago.
There was a time when PNGs behaved badly. I think it was not writing the 
Alpha values in the output.

-- 

Regards
     Stephen


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