Transparent texture

Engines, Libraries and Tools Java 3D
#1

Hi,

I have a QuadArray, and Im using a image with numbers to make the texture.

I’m using it to show the score in an Asteroid clone.

The problem is that, the image is a gif (with bitmask transparency), but the texture is opaque.

Is there a way to make the texture, preserving the transparent pixel of the image??

#2

I believe you need to make the Appearance of the shape transparent as well.

#3

[quote]I believe you need to make the Appearance of the shape transparent as well.
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Nope, you dont need to set apperance to transparent.

It works for me in this case:
I want to have the texture lighted and use a material, I apply the texture as TextureAttributes.MODULATE, and then set the diffuse colour fairly high, like .8 .8 .8. Transparency to 0. If that doesn’t work try make sure u load the GIF image into a Texture.RGBA and not a Texture.RGB mode. If that still gives problems try using PNG format instead of GIF, its better and you can have 256 degrees of transparency in any pixel.

Regards
Nikolai

#4

Thanks,

The solution was to use TransparencyAttributes(NICEST,0); in the apperance.

Also, I used Composite.SRC_IN to draw the font image. This way I was sure that only the opaque pixel of the font were opaque in the resulting BufferedImage.