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Rendering transparent TGA to a picturebox in vb.net   Message List  
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Hello all AIL users.

I wanted to know what the quickest way would be to load a 32 bit tga
so that the alpha transparency was preserved. Ideally i'd need my
fuction to return a bitmap so that i can update a picturebox. There
are a few methods pertaining to the use of alpha channels and
transparency, but i am unsure of what one to use. I just need the
fastest way of displaying the image. many thanks




Sun Apr 6, 2008 4:17 pm

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Hello all AIL users. I wanted to know what the quickest way would be to load a 32 bit tga so that the alpha transparency was preserved. Ideally i'd need my ...
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Apr 10, 2008
7:27 pm

1) Standard 24-bit BITMAP images do not support transparency... so converting any 32-bit transparent image (including TGA) to a 24-bit BITMAP would lose the...
Kevin Wilson
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Apr 10, 2008
7:46 pm

Hi kevin, Thanks for your reply. I am using vb.net and AIL to make an animation sequence player. I did want to squash the image to 16:9 so does that make the...
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Apr 11, 2008
7:32 pm

If you want to squash the image to 16:9 before rendering to a PictureBox, I would recommend resizing the image first, then rendering it transparently using the...
Kevin Wilson
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Apr 14, 2008
4:06 pm

you're right, it would look like crap. My theory was to try to render a tga foreground animation in the image property of the picturebox and a background (non...
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