gif shader idea 2004-05-14 - By Thomas Moffat Grimes
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Actually, you can add transparency by using a TGA with transparency (32
bit). You can then use the TGA in the transparency shader as well as the
color shader to take advantage of the transparency.
However, if your plane is already octagonal, you won't have to worry - just
use planar UV mapping and you'll be fine (using transparency would let you
paint the texture onto a square plane and get it to look octagonal, but it
sounds like your object is already octagonal so that would be unnecessary).
HTH!
Tom
Thomas Moffat Grimes
Marketing Communications
Caligari Corporation
mailto:thomas@(protected)
http://www.caligari.com
-- --Original Message-- --
From: Matt Geier [mailto:matt_g_geier@(protected)]
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 7:24 AM
To: truespace@(protected)
Subject: Re: [TSML] gif shader idea
Richard,
I actually think a gif shader would come in handy. At
least for myself. The reason I say this, is when you
create a JPG in photoshop, you cannot create a
"transparent" background, unless you choose the "save
as gif" option. I personally have a project now that
has a stop sign in it, obviously with eight sides, I
have four corners that need to either be transparent,
using gif or I just have to work with. It would be
much easier if I could use a gif and just map the
texture to my octogonal plane, however, that is not
the case and requires much more uv mapping then
originally though.
Just my two cents, if anyone has anything to include,
please do!
thanks,
--- "Richard R. \"Remnar\"" <rremnar@(protected)>
wrote:
> Hi. I have been working on some code to read gif
> files. Well I also stumbled
> across some code to read and write gif files. So I
> am wondering, would a gif
> texture shader be useful and what kind of features
> would you want in it?
> This gif reader/writer wont be handling LZW (cant
> afford that or figure it
> out anyway)
>
> Richard R. "Remnar"
> http://www.psoelites.tk/
> http://www.element8mm.tk/
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