From: a DOT gillett AT virgin DOT net (Andrew R. Gillett)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Allegro - Lit sprites
Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 23:52:45 +0100
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In article <355E2581 DOT 451C12CA AT frozenwave DOT com>, Kertis A. Henderson 
(kertis AT frozenwave DOT com) wrote:
> Andrew R. Gillett wrote:
> > 
> > Is it possible to draw a lit sprite which doesn't tint the sprite's black
> > background? I am trying to do a scrolltext where each character can be a
> > different colour, but it always tints the background of each character.
> 
> Couldn't you use text_mode(-1); and not even draw the background?

Makes no difference - the background always seems to be tinted. What I 
need is a 'draw_masked_lit_sprite', or something like that. Although all 
the other sprite functions already skip the transparent areas, so I don't 
understand why draw_lit_sprite doesn't as well.

Btw, my program is in 16-bit colour mode, in case that's any help.


Andrew Gillett
http://argnet.fatal-design.com/