Re: FLASH: 0% alpha =/= transparent?

[Branden Hall]

Change the color depth on your computer from 16 bit to 24 or 32.

16 bit color is still a limited pallete (i.e. there's not a fully smooth

transition between all colors) and because of this "ghosting" often occurs.

Its really nothing you can do anything about... its just because there is no

standard pallete for 16 bit color to use, so it tries to fake true color as

best as possible... and well.. fails.


-= Branden J. Hall

-= Multimedia Developer/Instructor

-= Fig Leaf Software


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Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2000 8:40 PM

Subject: FLASH: 0% alpha =/= transparent?



>

> Hi all -

>

> I'm a flash newbie and I hope these questions don't sound too stupid to

you:

>

> I'm having trouble making my symbols completely transparent in flash 4.

Even

> though I set the alpha values to 0%, i can still see the symbol - why is

it

> like that?

>

> I was also trying to make a symbol with a gradient fill which has some

> tranparent colors in it and other areas matching the background color of

the

> movie, but when i use that symbol, not only that the supposedly matching

> background colors don't match, i always see some faint grids in the

> transparent areas.... does any of you have any insight to this?

>

> In addition, why can i never set the movie's background to exactly match

> that of the html document, even when they have the same Hex color code? It

> seems to me that the background color of flash is always a tiny bit

lighter

> than the html documents....

>

> Thanks a lot in advance!

>

>

> dillon / uo||!p

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