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Ben, <giggle> Hmmm… I was wondering about having a toggle to show coordinates somewhere, either in screen pixels or in terms of the buffer being displayed. This could come in handy if I need to line things up or something. The transparency map will do wonders for Chroma Key. Right now, as I said, because of the low resolution of a HAM-E image, Chroma Keys look really fake. The jagged edges on overlaid objects are a dead giveaway. With a transparency map, you could use the following steps to create a seamless Chroma Key: you can use Chroma Key to isolate an object from the background. (Let's say the background is green) You then make the object white and the background black, anti-alias the image and voila — a transparency mask ready to be used. In my mind's eye, I foresee this technique being prone to creating a faint green halo around the object, since the anti-aliasing in the transparency map would cause some of the green background to be overlaid on top of the primary buffer. An easy cure would lie at the black-and-white, not-yet-anti-aliased-image stage: use thicken (or thin, whatever) to shrink the white silhouette by one pixel. Then when you anti-alias the map and composite the elements, you should see no trace of the green background. Each user has their pet feature, and anti-aliased text has been a dream of mine ever since I started learning about computers. Now, 15 years later, the dream is finally coming true. Thanks, Ben! Blaq! – via Whap!