POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Making Background transparent... : Re: Making Background transparent... Server Time
9 Aug 2024 08:59:35 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Making Background transparent...  
From: Ron Parker
Date: 25 Sep 2000 00:38:21
Message: <slrn8stmgo.6ca.ron.parker@fwi.com>
On Sun, 24 Sep 2000 22:19:02 +0200, Rune wrote:
>Exactly. The background presence should be stored in the alpha
>channel only. Not in the red, green and blue components.
>
>I have posted an image to povray.binaries.images and a bug report
>to povray.bugreports

It might have been premature for a post to .bugreports (we'll see; if it's
approved, it wasn't premature :) ) but for what it's worth, I agree that it
should work the way you describe rather than the way it works now.

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