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5 Nov 2024 17:25:08 EST (-0500)
  Re: layered textures and transparent gifs  
From: David
Date: 14 Jul 2003 05:45:01
Message: <web.3f127aafaa2135175c8e72650@news.povray.org>
Hughes, B. wrote:
>"David" <dh2### [at] iucrorg> wrote in message
>news:web.3f0e7f374965b1c45c8e72650[at]news.povray.org...
>> I have just come back to povray after about 7 years and it just seems to get
>> better and better!
>
>Welcome back. Quite a hiatus from POV-Ray, glad you found your way to here.

Thank you I am very please to be here again.

>
>> I wish to apply a texture and put a gif on top with some transparent
>> (filtered) colours. However, this does not seem to work - please help.
>>
>> Ths colour (#140) is transparent if I comment out the first texture but
>> shows up in the second.
>
>It could be that index 140 isn't pure white (in POV terms being:
><255,255,255>/255) and so not doing as you might be expecting. The keyword
>'transmit' might be needed, instead of 'filter'.
>

Thanks! Using transmit worked! As an aside - It seems the color doesn't have
to be white - the colour I made transparent was pure red.

Thanks again!

Best wishes,

David


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