*solved Targa image with alpha
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I tried to do blending with (GL_SRC_ALPHA, GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA), but it only uses the alpha from glColor4f(). My image is RGBA and I'm not sure how to use the alpha. I also tried alpha testing too.
[Edited by - dpadam450 on May 16, 2007 11:06:12 AM]
Are you asking what is wrong with your alpha channel with your .tga? Do you have a correctly loaded .tga image? How are you doing this? Is the color alignment correct? RGBA or BGRA? Are you trying to do an alpha testing, blending or both?
Need more info.
Need more info.
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Right now the image displays correctly, but the background is supposed to be 0 alpha, but it displays as a 1.0 alpha. The color data is fine, but the alpha doesnt show. I'm wondering if I have to set something up or does GL_RGBA already take care of the image for rasterization?
**I guess I should have just asked: I'm going to put this into a shader, and it seems that you can only grab a vec3 (RGB) from a texture lookup. True?
[Edited by - dpadam450 on May 15, 2007 9:55:30 PM]
**I guess I should have just asked: I'm going to put this into a shader, and it seems that you can only grab a vec3 (RGB) from a texture lookup. True?
[Edited by - dpadam450 on May 15, 2007 9:55:30 PM]
There are 4-vector types in pretty much every shading language. You should be able to use it just like a 3-vector, except that it has the extra member, ex: vec.a or vec.w or vec[3] depending on context.
Your texture also needs to be set up with all 4 RGBA channels.
What happens when you set the alpha to 0.5?
Your texture also needs to be set up with all 4 RGBA channels.
What happens when you set the alpha to 0.5?
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Right now I moved it to a shader, something must be wrong when I buffer the data. Right now I wrote all the alpha bits to 0 and I test:
vec4 pixel = texture2D(tex, gl_TexCoord[0].st);
if(pixel.a > .9)
discard
it's discarding every pixel so I'm assuming that it never actually put the data in and just filled them with 1.0? Either that or I need to add some code to enable grabbing the alpha part.
vec4 pixel = texture2D(tex, gl_TexCoord[0].st);
if(pixel.a > .9)
discard
it's discarding every pixel so I'm assuming that it never actually put the data in and just filled them with 1.0? Either that or I need to add some code to enable grabbing the alpha part.
Quote:Original post by dpadam450
Right now I moved it to a shader, something must be wrong when I buffer the data. Right now I wrote all the alpha bits to 0 and I test:
vec4 pixel = texture2D(tex, gl_TexCoord[0].st);
if(pixel.a > .9)
discard
it's discarding every pixel so I'm assuming that it never actually put the data in and just filled them with 1.0? Either that or I need to add some code to enable grabbing the alpha part.
From what I can gather, the texture2D call and subsequent alpha comparison both look valid. Do you have reference material on-hand?
http://www.lighthouse3d.com/opengl/glsl/index.php?textureMulti -- Perfect for visually debugging OpenGL texture code.
http://developer.3dlabs.com/downloads/index.htm -- OpenGL tools. GLSLvalidate is very useful.
Quote:Original post by dpadam450GL_RGBA is just a constant, so what do you mean by that? If your image's alpha channel isn't getting sent to the texture I'd bet that there's a problem with your texture creation, so could you post that code? You are using GL_RGBA or one of the more specific 4-component formats for the internalFormat parameter as well as the format parameter, right?
I'm wondering if I have to set something up or does GL_RGBA already take care of the image for rasterization?
Quote:Original post by dpadam450False. Every texture look-up function returns a vec4. I direct you to the GLSL specification.
**I guess I should have just asked: I'm going to put this into a shader, and it seems that you can only grab a vec3 (RGB) from a texture lookup. True?
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It's fixed. I used NEHE a long time ago and in their tutorial they just have a number for internal format. So instead of the enum "GL_RGB" they just put "3". So my external format was correct but internal format was still set to GL_RGB.
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