Sorry if this is not the right to post but my question is: Is it possible to create 16 bit images (RGB=5-5-5 or 5-6-5) containing an alpha channel? Maybe the answer is a 24 bits but this kind of model doesn’t seem to be support by Java2D according to the BufferedImage class.
The “common” 16bit alpha formats are 4-4-4-4 and 5-5-5-1. Dunno about java2d.
You can create BufferedImages with whatever ColorModel you want.
As to whether it will be accelerated… its very doubtful, but I suppose it could always be expanded to 32bpp when cached in vram.
OK thanks guys for the helpful info!