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WHERE DOES AS GET ALPHA?

    24-Jul-95 02:30:20
Sb: WHERE DOES AS GET ALPHA?
Fm: Debbie Berne 72103,221
To: ALL
I can't figure out where Animator Studio gets it's alpha channel info from. I just imported a series of TGA images with embedded alpha channels. When I tried to use the alpha info to make a mask, it seems as though its just using the RGB info to make the channel. When I did a view alpha, the black areas (outlines surrounding colored areas) were all transparent (100% alpha), and the colored areas were partially transparent. The TGA embedded alpha, however, was completely black and white; the stuff that came out partially transparent in AS was completely black in the TGA alpha channel. What am I missing? Does AS not recognize an alpha channel tagged onto the end of a TGA file an just make it from the RGB info? Thanks in advance, Dave Renneker