tranparency bitmaps

[H.F. Duijndam]

Hi all

Is there in the documentation an section
how to set the color of the section at the edges
of an bitmap to transparent so that alone the actual
bitmap is shown

tia

Herman

[James]

For the quick n dirty way of doing it, make sure you have 1 solid colour
that is not used in the main image on the parts you want transparent, then
click on the sprite and select background transparent from the ink drop down
menu in the sprite inspector panel. Also make sure that the sprites
background colour on the same panel is exactly the same rgb value as the
colour you want transparent (look up inks in the help file).
For a much nicer way to do it including soft fades and antialiasing, save
your image out of photoshop (or whatever you're using) as a 32bit image
(with an appropriate alpha channel or "mask") and import that image into
director making sure you have 32bit selected when importing it, then just
drag it onto the stage.

"H.F. Duijndam" <h.duijndam@hccnet.nl> wrote in message
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> Hi all
>
> Is there in the documentation an section
> how to set the color of the section at the edges
> of an bitmap to transparent so that alone the actual
> bitmap is shown
>
> tia
>
> Herman
>
>