Tutorial about generating transparent PNG's for use as tokens in a VTT or similar.

[Redrobes]

Yes all very valid points there. I think I am the worst at explaining stuff in simple terms.

Heres a simple example. I have a cyberman I took with my digi cam and have it on some black paper. I have made three transparency images. First is just the cyberman outline, second is same but has dark grey oval in middle and 3rd is where I have blurred the white version a lot and then added the white back in again. This last one gives a halo effect around him. Putting all three into the app next to each other shows what your going to see. Where the dark grey circle is shows some of the black paper but allows a lot of the floor pattern through too. Basically you can do semi-transparent icons this way.

I'll see if I can add the VMI file's as a zip at the end. You would need to create icons for those images to get a cyberman in your scene. I posted that cyberman as a PNG file in my challenge entry Dec08 for those Gimp/PS/PNG based users.

[icosahedron]

Yes all very valid points there. I think I am the worst at explaining stuff in simple terms.

Not at all - I've probably learned more about transparencies from that tutorial than I've picked up myself in the last five years.

I'll just lurk and learn for a while.