POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Transparent PNGs : Re: Transparent PNGs Server Time
1 May 2024 05:28:45 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Transparent PNGs  
From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 10 Oct 2017 03:34:52
Message: <59dc781c$1@news.povray.org>
On 10-10-2017 9:27, Stephen wrote:
> 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...

Yes, unless. ;-)

> 
> 
> 
>> 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.
> 

That must be the origin of my dim memory of ancient trouble...

-- 
Thomas


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