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From: John Haiducek
Date: 5 Feb 2002 14:00:11
Message: <3C602BBB.70807@umich.edu>

Alan Holding wrote:

> The only problem with this pic is the flowers.  (They're not meant for close
> scrutiny!)  Fog in 3.5 beta 10 (windows) does not seem to like targa
> image_maps with alpha channels.  If I take out of the fog, the problem
> disappears.  I don't think its a max_trace_level problem or similar - any
> ideas?  Genuine bug?

I don't know what causes it, but I've seen v3.0 do the same. In my case 
it was an indexed-color targa, with one color set as transmit 1. Did you 
use indexed color or alpha channel? Did you try image_pattern?

John Haiducek

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