Hi, Im working with sld and opengl but I cant figure out how can I make the background of an image transparent. I imported a gif library for sdl but it still does not work. glMatrixMode (GL_PROJECTION); glLoadIdentity (); glOrtho (0, XSize, YSize, 0, 0, 1); glMatrixMode (GL_MODELVIEW); glDisable(GL_DEPTH_TEST); glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D); SDL_PixelFormat RGBAFormat; RGBAFormat.palette = 0; RGBAFormat.colorkey = 0; RGBAFormat.alpha = 0; RGBAFormat.BitsPerPixel = 32; RGBAFormat.BytesPerPixel = 4; #if SDL_BYTEORDER == SDL_BIG_ENDIAN RGBAFormat.Rmask = 0xFF000000; RGBAFormat.Rshift = 0; RGBAFormat.Rloss = 0; RGBAFormat.Gmask = 0x00FF0000; RGBAFormat.Gshift = 8; RGBAFormat.Gloss = 0; RGBAFormat.Bmask = 0x0000FF00; RGBAFormat.Bshift = 16; RGBAFormat.Bloss = 0; RGBAFormat.Amask = 0x000000FF; RGBAFormat.Ashift = 24; RGBAFormat.Aloss = 0; #else RGBAFormat.Rmask = 0x000000FF; RGBAFormat.Rshift = 24; RGBAFormat.Rloss = 0; RGBAFormat.Gmask = 0x0000FF00; RGBAFormat.Gshift = 16; RGBAFormat.Gloss = 0; RGBAFormat.Bmask = 0x00FF0000; RGBAFormat.Bshift = 8; RGBAFormat.Bloss = 0; RGBAFormat.Amask = 0xFF000000; RGBAFormat.Ashift = 0; RGBAFormat.Aloss = 0; #endif SDL_Surface * orig = NULL; orig = SDL_LoadBMP("you.bmp"); if(orig == NULL){ .... ... Does anyone know what may be the problem?

I also tried png. Could anyone help me with that please? Ive been trying to figure it out for more than 5 hours :(

jkleinecke --> yes I have tried that. For the past few hours Ive been trying to browse thorugh pixels and set a color to alpha. Here is what I got so far:


// orig = SDL surface

void *data[orig->w*orig->h*4]; //data = copied pixels (from the surface)
memcpy(data, orig->pixels, orig->w*orig->h*4);


for(int i = 0; i<orig->w*orig->h*4; i++)
{

if(data==(void *)(-65281)){ // -65281 = teh color to be set to trasparent
data=(void *)(0xff); // i thought 0xff represents alpha
}
}
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, textureYou);
glTexImage2D(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, 4, orig->w, orig->h, 0, GL_RGBA, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, data);

glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_S, GL_REPEAT);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_T, GL_REPEAT);

glTexEnvi(GL_TEXTURE_ENV, GL_TEXTURE_ENV_MODE, GL_BLEND);
glEnable( GL_BLEND ) ;
glBlendFunc( GL_SRC_ALPHA, GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA ) ;
SDL_FreeSurface(orig);


As you can see above I tried using 0xff for trasnparency but it does not work...

Please help! Im really desprate....

Oh and btw the color is white instead of being transparent :(
By swaping certain pixels like shown above, I managed switch colors but I cant make it alpha....

Could anyone please point me to a working example that loads an image with transparent background?

void *data[orig->w*orig->h*4]; //data = copied pixels (from the surface)

What does this do? You're allocating a array of pointers of "dynamic" size, but you should use malloc/new for that.

Besides, show your entire code, not the parts you think are failing, such as image loading and texture uploading.