Hey there, Im dealing with alpha color blending. Now I wanna create alpha-cloud but the result is too bright I think. The base picture: http://www.votetry.atw.hu/lava0.gif the cloud: http://www.votetry.atw.hu/cloud.gif and the bad result: http://www.votetry.atw.hu/image1.jpg what I want excatly: I want this cloud to be transparented where its white and untransparented where its black (and the gradations perfectly too) but I dont know what do to. Before drawing I set the alphablending: (1 means TRUE). So I dont know what to do. (And if I wish the black colors to be transparented...?)

finally success the uploading :) I must use 1 becaues its Delphi and it doesnt accept boolean value (not the fault of the language, DX8 SDK is implemented like this)

Ah yes, your idea works thanx :) btw I dont real understand the alpha blendings, isnt there a document somewhere that describes the alpha results with all parameters?