Alpha and Opacity - only 3 levels?

[frogpipe]

Unless I missed it TS12 does NOT have a setting, at least not in the launcher or game options menu.

 

[Dinorius_Redundicus]

TS10 does, it's in the launcher/options. Maybe they were so useless that they got dropped for TS12?

On the subject of anti-aliasing, did you get a load of how many types of anti-aliasing there are in the nVidia Control Panel?

Antialiasing - FXAA ?
Antialiasing - Gamma correction ?
Antialiasing - Mode ?
Antialiasing - Transparency ?

 

[frogpipe]

I use a sledge hammer to kill flies, by which I mean I set it for the max (Or what I figure was, x32 and whole load of letters)

 

[VinnyBarb]

Vinnybarb - ....Snip.... And it is incorrect to refer to the alpha as a "layer". It's not a layer, it's a "channel". Layers don't change the number of bits in the image, but adding or deleting a channel does.

The reason I call it an alpha layer is because I place an extra layer on top of a single texture to make it an (hold on a second, checking for the right terminology ....)....an alpha masked texture which has at least 1 extra channel included, the alpha layer. It is still a layer on top of a texture until merged.

As long as it works....:hehe:

VinnyBarb

 

[Dinorius_Redundicus]

Sorry Herbert, this is probably going to annoy you, but the term "alpha layer" is incorrect and likely to confuse inexperienced readers.

Placing an extra layer on top of a single texture does not make it an "alpha masked texture" and doesn't create an extra channel (at least not in Photoshop). Layers, no matter how many and whether they are merged or not, don't create transparency effects (either masked or blended). To get transparency from a single image, you need to an extra channel. That's why it's called an alpha channel, not an alpha layer.

 

[VinnyBarb]

Sorry Herbert, this is probably going to annoy you, but the term "alpha layer" is incorrect and likely to confuse inexperienced readers.

Placing an extra layer on top of a single texture does not make it an "alpha masked texture" and doesn't create an extra channel (at least not in Photoshop). Layers, no matter how many and whether they are merged or not, don't create transparency effects (either masked or blended). To get transparency from a single image, you need to an extra channel. That's why it's called an alpha channel, not an alpha layer.

Yep, it annoys me but you are right, an alpha mask added is an alpha channel. I will stand in the corner and repeat 100 times: It is an alpha channel, not a layer.

Cheers

VinnyBarb