POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Transparent PNGs : Re: Transparent PNGs Server Time
1 May 2024 02:25:06 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Transparent PNGs  
From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 11 Oct 2017 02:48:25
Message: <59ddbeb9$1@news.povray.org>
On 10-10-2017 14:26, Stephen wrote:
> On 10/10/2017 08:34, Thomas de Groot wrote:
>> 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. ;-)
> 
> Indeed.

As you say.

> 
> 
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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...
>>
> 
> I seem to remember Billboards were all the rage about that time.
> 

Yes, and then it faded away. I wonder what will be next.. ;-)

-- 
Thomas


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