hi, How would I make part of an texture in Directx8 partly transparent, use 1 colorkey to become invissible when rendered to the screen so that I will see the textures that lie behind it. now I use the colorkey parameter of the D3DXCreateTextureFromFileExA(); funtion to make purple transparent but it doesn''t seem to work since it just turns the purple into black and I still don''t see the texture that''s behind it...so how would I do such thing? Chris

you must enable alpha testing, and when you specify the transparent color, make sure the alpha value is maximum, so for example black you would use (in hexidecimal format) FF000000 rather than just 00000000 (unless your bitmap file specifies the alpha values as something else, which isnt usually the case)